Kult Books

18/08/2023

Gravity by Aapo Huhta is out now. Here's a detail of the beautifully pamphlet stitch bound book in embossed and offset printed double-folded covers. Designed by Heikki Kaski and Aapo Huhta.

See more at https://www.kultbooks.com/books/gravity

09/08/2023

OUT NOW: Gravity by Aapo Huhta

Aapo Huhta's book Gravity presents a collection of black and white studio portraits of human figures and shapes combined with imagery of mummified remains from late 16th-century Sicily. In these gently surreal scenes, human bodies float, enveloped in grainy textures from chemical residues and light leaks. By photographing and rephotographing through transparent and reflective objects, Huhta transforms the figures into contorted human-like creatures. He also manipulates the interaction of film, developer, and overly expired photographic paper by hand and re-establishes the unpredictability into a process that is commonly sought to be controlled.

The catalyst for the work Gravity was a change in identity that happened after becoming a parent. The result is a subjective interpretation of the complexity and fragility of human life and an intuitive response toward the unknown.

Embossed double-folded softcover
Pamphlet stitch binding
56 pages
Monotone and tritone offset printing
22.5 x 27.5 cm

First edition of 500 copies
ISBN 978-91-987606-7-5
Designed by Heikki Kaski and Aapo Huhta

Read more at https://www.kultbooks.com/books/gravity

05/11/2022

Polycopies, Kult Books is coming with a new book!

Harri Pälviranta's book Battered will be released at Polycopies on the 10th of November at 17. Read more and pre order the book now at https://www.kultbooks.com/ #/battered/

Besides Pälviranta we have four of our published artists visiting us at the fair. The full signing schedule is:

Thursday 10th
14.30 Harri Pälviranta - Battered (book presentation)
17.00 Harri Pälviranta - Battered (book release and signing)

Friday 11th
17.00 Ian Lewandowski - My Man Mitch (signing and launch of the special edition)
18.30 Andrea Simonato - Il Malocchio (signing)

Saturday 12th
17.00 Malte Uchtmann - Ankommen (signing)

Bonus guest: Norman Behrendt - Blueprint 2017-20

Come by and say hello, looking forward to meeting many of you!

20/03/2022

NEW BOOK: Il Malocchio by Andrea Simonato

According to old pagan beliefs Il Malocchio or ‘the evil eye’ is a curse causing bad luck and misfortune. In his debut book Il Malocchio Italian photographer Andrea Simonato depicts the quiet villages of his home region of Vicenza in the Northern Italy as upon this curse of unluckiness causing decay and abandonment. On his walks through sleeping villages and their empty buildings, dark woods and resting groves Simonato makes extraordinary findings in the seemingly common surroundings. The work echoes both longing and hope, creating a beautiful and poetic, yet mysterious ode to a place called home.

“When photographing I try to keep an open mind to whatever I come across. What I look for in a subject is to catch its enigmatic character, what it seems to be hiding rather than what it lets you see. Photographing in black and white helps me to abstract reality more easily by creating a sort of parallel world that is precisely that of the photographic narrative itself. Il Malocchio creates a conceptual frame for my work, as it is inherent for me to explore the mysterious side of things.”

Perfect bound hot foiled hard cover with a patterned translucent dust jacket
80 pages
49 black and white photographs
Duotone offset printing
16 x 23 cm

First edition, 250 copies
ISBN 978-91-987606-0-6

To be released on the 4th of April 2022

Pre-order discount at kultbooks.com: 29 €

All profits from the pre-sale will be donated to help in the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine through the Red Cross.

08/11/2021

Kult Books will participate in Polycopies book fair for the first time this year. The fair is arranged during Paris Photo at the boat Concorde-Atlantique and is open from Wednesday 10th to Sunday 14th November. All published Kult Books titles can be browsed and bought here, we have even been able to acquire back a copy of long ago sold out artist book Golden Days by Max Sjödin. On Saturday two or our published artists will do a book signing, Julie Scheurweghs at 3pm and Norman Behrendt at 6pm. If you're around, please come and say hi! Looking forward to meeting many of you.

26/09/2021

'Portrait 18 74 06' from book Personalia by

Personalia is a visual study of graffiti culture in Sweden, focusing on the people behind the thriving underground culture. Riikonen spend four years making portraits of the most dedicated and hardcore writers, some masked, some unmasked.

Personalia was the second book by Kult Books and was published two years ago, time flies!

13/09/2021

A wonderful review of our book Transcendence by Mikko Kerttula out now in Collector Daily:

"But the Finnish photographer continued to make patiently photographs in and around the transit hub, and ultimately he discovered that the unexpected interruptions and distortions found in the images shot through the grimy plastic windows of the bus shelters could become something intriguing. Of course, Kerttula isn’t the first to realize that making photographs through glass can be interesting, or is he even the first to find inspiration on public transportation. In recent years, Michael Wolf has memorably noticed the packed crowds and fogged windows of the Tokyo subway, Nick Turpin has looked through the windows of the London night bus, and Anthony Hernandez has used the perforated sun sheeting on Los Angeles bus shelters to veil his views, to name just a few who have made durable photographs from this kind of subject matter. But Kerttula finds his own fleeting magic at the bus station, making his images a worthy addition to the subgenre."

Read the whole piece below:

https://collectordaily.com/mikko-kerttula-transcendence/

Mikko Kerttula, Transcendence By Loring Knoblauch / In Photobooks / September 13, 2021 JTF (just the facts): Published in 2021 by Kult Books (here). Staple bound, 22.5 x 28 cm, with loose, screen printed board cover. 64 pages, with 38 black and white reproductions. There are no texts or essays inclu...

08/08/2021

NEW BOOK: Mère by Julie Scheurweghs

In her debut book Mère, we see the artist Julie Scheurweghs in different stages of labour. Scheurweghs' natural home birth took 16 hours, and while being by her side, the whole process was closely documented by her partner. Later, while going through the photographs she noticed the details that accurately matched her recollections from the day. She claimed the photographs by cropping them to their bare essence, creating a new body of work showing the intensity of the experience. The skin-close, uncensored and heartfelt photographs of heavy contractions alternated with calm moments in between show us not only a baby being born, but the birth of a mother as well.

OTA bound paperback
148 pages
142 black and white photographs
16 x 22 cm

First edition of 200 copies
ISBN 978-91-984059-9-6

Mère is the seventh book to be published by Kult Books. Please read more, have a look inside and get yours for the pre-order discount now at kultbooks.com/mere

16/06/2021

Review of our new book, Blueprint 2017-20 by Norman Behrendt in British Journal of Photography:

The shots Behrendt has selected are interesting, and include scenes that might otherwise fly by unnoticed. There are instantly recognisable politicians and emotive shots of flags and beaches, but there are also more oblique views of lecterns, or shadowy figures, or pointing fingers. “The images that I selected persuade, lie, convince, scare and seduce us,” he explains. “They are visual metaphors.”

Written by Diane Smyth, read whole review from the link below

https://www.1854.photography/2021/06/norman-behrendt-chronicles-the-visualisation-of-brexit-in-his-new-book/

The project, titled Blueprints 2017-2020, distills and recaptures images from the British media that came to characterise the years following the EU referendum

08/05/2021

The book Blueprint 2017-20 by Norman Behrendt has arrived from the printer! All preorders will be shipped on Monday. Thank you all who have ordered the book for yor support and patience!

The preorder discount is still valid for tomorrow, get your copy for 35€ + shipping now at kultbooks.com