With Ferragosto slowly passing away, these days seem like the right time for new plans and beginnings—and new books of course📚
Presenting the upcoming book by Domenico Camarda Water Dreams of Itself: a series of evocative and dream-like images in search of generational and individual identity told by a young man trying to break through the loneliness and indifference of the surrounding world.
Coming very soon🤫 Stay tuned and have a great weekend!
“As a child, daydreaming on my bed,I would sometimes close my right eye and imagine what my life would be like if I lost it. Suffering from Amblyopia in my left eye, also called lazy eye, the world around me appears as if through a blurred photographic lens. This obsession gave rise to some of the images most representative of this book.“🌀
Watch the world around with the eyes of the Belgian photographer Frédéric Schmiliver—in his book UNCONSCIOUS. Known for his photographic essays, the photographer remains committed to reality and storytelling, seeking to engage diverse audiences and bridge gaps in understanding through their visual narratives.
“These photographs are of dreams, a series of reveries connecting with the unconscious. It is a collection of analog images made over 20 years, mostly from my youth, when I photographed without any technique, reference or method. Unconsciously.”
🌊The book is available at 89books.com
128 pages
17,5x25 cm
33 color photographs and
33 black and white photographs Softcover + dust jacket
Digital print
@frederic.schmiliver
“Sicily is often associated with corruption, poverty, omertà—but seen up close this triangle of a country means wonder, humanity, conviviality, stories. What fascinates me about Sicily are precisely these people, these faces, linked and anchored to a volcanic land, a telluric and cosmic land, sometimes inhospitable, whose strength and violence is inevitably reflected on the character of the islanders”.
Maurizio Leonardi, an Italian photographer originally from Naples, is drawn to the margins of society, capturing the lives of those who inhabit spaces. He does not go to a place to take photographs or to explore it, he simply lives there—this time, he lived in Sicily for several months aboard his van, watching people and making some wonderful portraits.
Explore the island’s “ethical and poetical density”, away from the strident mass of tourism, as Maurizio sees it in his new book UNNI VA—out now!
60 pages
24x18 cm
33 black and white photographs
Softcover
Digital print
Looking for an alternative gift for Christmas?
What about our newly published ROMANTIC MISTRESS by Giuseppe Martella? It’s a story of Daria, a mistress who is not afraid to show to the world what she does.
With 10 chapters, each unveiling different practices, get to know the BDSM world through a new angle: everyday life, debunking the myths surrounding this lifestyle.
🥀Order now at 89books.com
10 posters in a latex slipcase
34 x 48 cm
Digital print
A story behind the amazing “Charomushki Odyssey” project by Andrei Loginov. Sometimes, the most interesting journeys happen by chance.
144 pages
21 x 30 cm
79 BW photographs
Soft cover, digital print
🔗The book is available at 89books.com
One of the long-awaited releases that we’re presenting at UNSEE Photo fair these days — VOGLIA by Elise Wouters⚡️
A picturesque study of Palermo, this project is a part of Quaderno Palermo series and was born during the art residence that Elise did at 89books earlier this year. The book shows how one perceive the city through the body: “My body is never separate from the space that surrounds it; we share a singular experience, continuously interacting and redefining one another.”
Come visit us today at Westergas to get a first look of the book and to meet Elise later this afternoon🫶
Almost everything is ready for our installation that is going to be presented this Friday - large scale photographs from the Bangkok Sketches series by @mauro_dagati.photographer 😍
Installed at the former Niceta shop in via Roma, Palermo, it provides a glimpse on the urban life of Bangkok, another city with a multilayered and chaotic urban tissue - which correlates with the poetic desolation of the ruins and debris of Palermo, creating a dialogue between two cities through photography.
The installation will be available from the 1st of September, on this day you can also visit the book presentation that will be held at @eglise.art - see you there at 19.00!
Discover BANGKOK SKETCHES by Mauro D’Agati page by page🔎
While D’Agati usually focuses on social themes rather than urban ones in his photographic practice, this work has become a tribute to his beloved city of Bangkok where he feels almost at home — and where streets and buildings vibrate with life. They are loud and smelly, they are not a backdrop but a fully-fledged protagonist of the story. The story that one wants to penetrate, unravel, be part of.
And when the night comes, D’Agati delves into another hidden world, of which there are many in Bangkok, the world of BDSM and fetish clubs, following his The Black Swamp project — see more about it at our website🔥
@mauro_dagati.photographer
#89books #bangkoklife #thailand #blackandwhitephotography #thailife #bangkokstreetphotography
DREAMSCAPES by Dora Kontha, a photobook published by #89books
Kontha is a photographic artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work focuses on inner and outer landscapes involving various analogue processes and experimental techniques. While investigating the artistic and technical possibilities of film photography, her photographs evolve towards inner journeys, the visual translation of emotions and abstract representation of actual places.
Tap the link in our bio to see more🌀
#photobook #analoguephotography #landscapes #mountains #mountainscape #contemporaryphotography #travelphotography #shotonfilm #libridiviaggio #rullino #photographieartistique
Discover the PASSING PHOTOS by Hamid Mosaddegh: a result of the juxtaposition and overlapping of light and shadow, color and texture, this mesmerizing collection can be called the photography of found places—an author’s tentative to bring out to light the hidden and usually invisible expressive power of random objects and places, which makes us explore the city from the totally unconventional perspective.
Tehran as you’ve never seen it before in the PASSING PHOTOS, available at our website. We ship worldwide!
Link in bio💥
This tank-shaped salt lamp was purchased from a souvenir shop in Bakhmut in late 2016. The artists started literally licking the salt tank with their tongs day by day, bit by bit. This slow and quite painful process demonstrates the slow and not necessarily successful re-shaping of the object of trauma. It went on for 240 weeks (four and a half years) and each week they were taking a new photo of the salt lamp to record its gradual disappearance.
LICKING WAR WOUNDS (2016–2021)
Andrii Dostliev & Lia Dostlieva
1. Edition 03/2022
Texts by Andrii Dostliev & Lia Dostlieva
Book design by 89books
248 pages
240 color photographs
22 x 24 cm
Softcover
Digital print
ISBN 979-12-80423-25-2
https://www.89books.com/store/product/licking-war-wounds-lia-dostlieva-andrii-dostliev
Bruce Gilden signed 100 copies of his new book Italians 🖊📓
Don't miss a chance to get a signed copy!
The book will also be available at Images Gibellina
#brucegilden #italians #photography
Opening of the One Voice Palermo - Change is in Unity
