Loose Joints (2025)

02/01/2025

Happy New Year, everyone! We’ve got many exciting surprises in the pipeline for 2025, including a new book coming out next week and our Spring/Summer season announcement…

📸: Can you guess who this is by?

30/12/2024

And to wrap up the year, our final release was the immersive SHADOW CAST by : a truly unique handmade artist’s book, printed risograph XXL.

Across its 72 inky pages, Silano presents a gritty typology of obscured faces excavated from vintage gay erotic ephemera that simmer with melancholy and desire. With each copy lovingly printed, collated, bound, signed and numbered by hand, we’re already down to our last hundred copies. Those of you in NYC can also check out an accompanying exhibition at until 11 January.

Thank you all for supporting such an exciting and diverse year of publishing from Loose Joints, it’s been a fun ride 🌹 Get ready for more in 2025!

29/12/2024

Our 2024 roundup continues! November saw the long-awaited reissue of a Y2K photography classic: Lars Tunbjörk’s iconic OFFICE, where the corporate melancholy of the most ubiquitous places in the Western world is studied with masochistic delight

Tunbjörk photographed across Sweden, New York and Tokyo to capture the banal uniformity of what he called “the most common – but closed and secretive – place in the Western world.”

We channelled this banality into our redesigned new edition, where introduced a drab, bureaucratic rework of his original 2001 book design, including in its dossier-like slipcase a second volume, LA OFFICE: a previously unpublished series that we paired with a visionary 2015 essay by the late David Graeber where he coined the phenomenon of ‘Bullsh*t Jobs’.

Discover the delights of OFFICE at loosejoints.biz alongside an exclusive Special Edition with an accompanying print certified by the .

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27/12/2024

Next in our 2024 roundup is Khashayar Javanmardi’s poetic CASPIAN, published this fall.

How do we document climate change? Javanmardi turns his eye to the Iranian shores of the Caspian Sea, where the world’s largest body of water is suffering the effects of pollution, overfishing, industrial exploitation and climate change, shrinking its shores and impoverishing the region’s inhabitants. Javanmardi uses an elegiac visual language to infuse his documentary vision with a melancholy yet dignifying quality that pays tribute to the lives that persist and depend on the water’s diminishing returns.

CASPIAN is a tactile landscape hardcover edited by with custom Farsi typography by and an essay by director Nathalie Herschdorfer. It is the winner of the Photobook Award, the Prix 2024, and a recipient of Un/Fund 2023.

Discover the first chapter of Javanmardi’s important project at loosejoints.biz

23/12/2024

Our 2024 roundup continues with a ray of sunshine from ’s atmospheric, ethereal DÍAS.

Spanish photographer Riverola’s sun-drenched images evoke the rhythm of a day in an effortless series of vignettes from around the world, where dappled light, blur and colour evoke memories of exploration and discovery. This intimate hardcover uses tactile materials and a delicate sequence by to transport you elsewhere; don’t miss it alongside two high-quality gallery editions of Riverola’s work, both available at online!

21/12/2024

Our 2024 roundup continues with a unique artist book from Ngadi Smart, WATA NA LIFE.

was the winner of our Publishing Ecology award with her jubilant project that reverses visual clichés of climate change in Africa, using collage to uplift and display the complexity of water poverty in her native Sierra Leone. In Smart’s colourful and challenging assemblages, documentary witnessing is intertwined with a playful and unique visual language that is further enhanced by an experimental book design: every page is stab-stitched into a tactile hardcover and post-folded to make layers of association, as Smart seeks a path to climate justice through ambitious visual strategies.

Printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, every copy of WATA NA LIFE is signed and editioned by the artist, with an accompanying fundraising Print Edition which fundraises for the communities depicted in the book.

18/12/2024

Summer 2024 saw us release Abdulhamid Kircher’s raw and ambitious ROTTING FROM WITHIN: a dense decade-long project examining generational trauma, masculinity, violence and identity in a searing autobiographic narrative.

Working and editing with from his archive of tens of thousands of images, ROTTING FROM WITHIN uses a complex visual language to explore Kircher’s Germano-Turkish heritage and the violent history of his father, where dense photographic clusters oscillate between a precise pictorial style and a nuanced approach to collage.

Kircher’s debut monograph accompanied a solo exhibition of the work at in Berlin and was nominated for First PhotoBook at the 2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards.

We are now down to our final copies. Get yours online before they’re all gone, alongside two limited edition hand-prints straight from the artist’s darkroom!

17/12/2024

Our roundup of a busy 2024 continues with ’s sublime, confident and empowering HARDTACK, his second monograph uplifting the long-enduring nature of Black culture and traditions in the American South.

HARDTACK uses the landscape and its complete history as a guide but not a subject, implying the deep ties that bind modern Black communities resiliently to their regions in the face of adversity and joy. Edited closely by and with an incredible essay by the great on the complex histories of the South, HARDTACK is also nominated for the 2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

You can find two limited silver gelatin prints from the series online in our clothbound slipcased Special Edition of the book, and the opportunity to get Fortune’s breakout debut I can’t stand to see you cry at 50% off online in our Artist Bundle.

15/12/2024

Collecting, imagining, dreaming, recording: next in our 2024 roundup is Nigel Shafran’s WORKBOOKS 1984–2024, a 528-page chronology of the artist’s disarming photographic notes.

From our previous collaborations we knew that Shafran had an extensive practice of sketching out ideas and gathering thoughts in dense, layered notebooks. From there, WORKBOOKS emerged: an invitation to lift the lid on Shafran’s distinctive, intimate and intuitive career through an oblique glance into the workbooks that shaped Shafran’s iconic publications, series and photographs across the last forty years, alongside private and personal ephemera.

Designed and edited by Linda van Deursen, this chunky book is a creative inspiration; discover it and save 50% off THE WELL online as part of our Artist Bundles.

13/12/2024

Next up in our 2024 roundup: the playful and circular A HOUSE OF CLAY by Swedish darkroom maestro ! Gustafsson uses the fabric of everyday consciousness to stretch and bend the photographic plane in an associative sequence of photographic works.

Gustafsson’s warm slices of life are digested in the darkroom, where the technical processes of photography fall in on themselves, becoming embedded in the image: cycles of photographing, printing, failing, dodging rules, repeating and scanning.

We also created a beautiful Special Edition with a limited hand-print straight from Erik’s darkroom 👀

08/12/2024

Happy to see two of our brilliant artists shortlisted for the Prix Élysée 2025!

’s A BODY THAT SPEAKS AS A BIRD uses his deconstructed documentary approach to examine Colombia’s rural-to-urban migration, while ’s THE COVE reflects on loss, memory, and the dualities of pride and progress in the Black American South by pairing Fortune’s graceful eye with a questioning of nostalgic ideals through vernacular photography.

This prestigious award recognises the best of contemporary photographic practice with the opportunity to develop a brand-new body of work for exhibition and publication. Best of luck to all nominees .elysee

06/12/2024

The making of Pacifico Silano’s SHADOW CAST 👀 – our largest book to date, all lovingly made by hand! We wanted to create a unique object that replicated life-size ’s brooding and melancholy typology of obscured portraits from q***r ephemera.

Designed and edited by , SHADOW CAST is printed entirely on a risograph machine to give an inky, tactile experience. Every page is carefully printed, hand-collated, bound, and screenprinted with a seductive thick red PVC cover, all courtesy of the book wizards at in the Netherlands.

Each copy of SHADOW CAST is numbered and signed by the artist and will soon be out of print. Don’t miss out on the chance to have this XXL beauty in your life!

You have until midnight to save 25% on SHADOW CAST alongside all current titles in our Winter Sale 🌹

05/12/2024

Don’t want a festive disappointment? 💌 See below for our holiday postage deadlines, and don’t forget we’ll ship for FREE over £70 in the UK/EU and $120 in the USA.

Tomorrow is also the final day to shop our Winter Sale with 25% OFF all Current Titles ⏰

Depending on your location and order, we ship worldwide from the UK, France, USA and the Netherlands.

🇳🇱 Orders shipping from our NL warehouse:
Western Europe: Wednesday 18 December
Eastern Europe: Thursday 19 December
Belgium & the Netherlands: Friday 20 December

🇫🇷 Orders shipping from Marseille, FR (Special, rare, final copies of books):
UK: Tuesday 10 December
France Domestic: Friday 20 December
Europe: Wednesday 18 December
North America: Tuesday 10 December
Rest of World: Friday 06 December

🇺🇸 Orders shipping from our Brooklyn warehouse, USA:
North America Domestic: Friday 13 December
Rest of World: Tuesday 10 December

🇬🇧 Orders shipping from Leeds, UK:
UK Domestic: Friday 20 December
North America: Monday 09 December
Rest of World: Thursday 05 December

If you require further assistance with your delivery, feel free to contact our team at [email protected]

03/12/2024

Out now! SHADOW CAST is a unique, oversized and limited-edition book by lens-based artist Pacifico Silano. In life-size, gritty headshots excavated from gay ephemera obscured beyond recognition through grainy risograph printing, this ambitious artist book comments on the melancholy, friction and desire in q***r masculinity.

Limited to 500 hand-assembled, signed and numbered copies and going fast, we are thrilled to announce a solo exhibition and book launch for SHADOW CAST this Thursday, 05 December, 6–9pm at our NYC Reading Room at .

27/11/2024

Our Winter Sale is back!

It’s been a bumper year of diverse and exciting books, and to celebrate we’re giving you 25% off ALL current Loose Joints titles across our site.

This offer can be combined with our free shipping over £70 in UK/EU and $120 in the USA, and applies to all current titles, excluding rare titles, prints and special editions. Discount automatically applied at check out.

Until Friday 06 December midnight – don’t sleep on it ⏰

25/11/2024

Mondays…

From Lars Tunbjörk’s definitive study of workplace malaise, OFFICE: now available again for the first time in over twenty years alongside an unpublished series, LA OFFICE. Brighten the start of your week with this essential photobook – we ship worldwide!

📸 Lawyerʼs office, New York 1997

22/11/2024

Loose Joints 2014-2024 is an exhibition in Paris celebrating ten years of publishing contemporary photographic discourse, curated and directed by , including thirty-six artists from the Loose Joints catalogue.

On view until 30 November, Weds-Sat 14.00–19.00
38 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris

With a reading room of all available Loose Joints titles to browse and buy.

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Including works by:

Mohamed Bourouissa
Michella Bredahl
Coco Capitán
Oliver Frank Chanarin
Chloe Dewe Mathews
Bobby Doherty
Eli Durst
Buck Ellison
Rahim Fortune
Robin Friend
Robin Graubard
Sophie Green
Erik Gustafsson
Hudson Hayden
Khashayar Javanmardi
Abhishek Khedekar
Abdulhamid Kircher
Aleksey Kondratyev
Mårten Lange
Miranda Lichtenstein
David Luraschi
Daniel Jack Lyons
Richard Mosse
Marton Perlaki
Thomas Prior
Tim Richmond
Pia Riverola
Felipe Romero Beltrán
Thomas Rousset
Samara Scott
Lars Tunbjörk
Sean Vegezzi
Harley Weir
Yana Wernicke
Sam Youkilis
Xiaopeng Yuan

Installation photos

20/11/2024

OUT NOW! We are thrilled to announce SHADOW CAST, a handmade XXL artist’s book exploring desire, masculinity and melancholy through ’s reworking of q***r archives.

Printed entirely on the risograph and laden with ink, this oversized artist’s book is corporeal in scale, where Silano’s conceptual gestures of reframing comment on marginality – with his subjects literally kept in the shadows – speaking of a mental hidden space pulsing with desire and longing.

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Discover this 500-copy signed-and-numbered risograph edition at loosejoints.biz – we bet it’s the biggest book you will buy this year. We’re selling fast, with copies available exclusively online and at our two NYC events this Saturday at the Photobook Club and on Thursday 05 Dec at our NYC Reading Room.

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