PhotoBook Journal

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PhotoBook JournalCultureMichael E. Northrup – Over the Electric Grapevine Review by Hans Hickerson · Michael E. Northrup’s photobook Over the Electric Grapevine lives up to the Pynchonesque promise of its title: weird, wild, and wonderful.

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PhotoBook JournalCultureAlex Llovet – Summer’s Almost Gone Review by Hans Hickerson · Alex Llovet’s photobook Summer’s Almost Gone is a family album of sorts. The monochrome photos were taken on family vacations from 2016 to 2021.

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PhotoBook JournalCultureDavid Campany, Editor – Walker Evans: Now and Then Review by Gerhard Clausing • How much of a country’s culture can we discover in a shop interior, a worn work shirt, or a face glimpsed on a train?

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PhotoBook JournalCultureLali Khalid – Letters to Azan Review by Hans Hickerson · Letters to Azan is about photographer Lali Khalid’s relationship with her son. Khalid is from Pakistan.

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PhotoBook JournalCultureJohn Gossage – An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture Review by Max Cavitch · American photographer John Gossage’s new book, An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture , is dedicated “to the memory of my friend Anne Truitt, who taught me to love sculpture.” In…

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PhotoBook JournalCultureXavier Nuez – Alleys & Ruins. A Photographic Memoir Review by Gerhard Clausing • This photobook clearly demonstrates that there is a relationship between our inner self and the outer environment, with a strong impact on our vision.

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PhotoBook JournalCultureSan Francisco Photobook Fair 2026 Photo essay by Hans Hickerson · The second edition of the San Francisco Photobook Fair was held this past weekend on October 17 and 18 at the Harvey Milk Photo Center .

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PhotoBook JournalCultureMAGNUM: AMERICA Review by Melanie Chapman · Never before has a book caused this reviewer such a strong case of writer’s block. Near paralysis might be an even better description.

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PhotoBook JournalCultureInterview with Kult Books’ Janne Riikonen Interview by Hans Hickerson · HH: When did you start Kult and why? JR: It was 2016. I was finishing my master’s. I had moved from Finland to Sweden to do my master of art in photojournalism.

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PhotoBook JournalCulturePaul Nicklen — Reverence Review by Lee Halvorsen • Breathtaking! Stunning! Immersive! And that’s just the cover. This art object, the book itself, the printed pages, the images, the text…their fusion; this book is one for…

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo