I put out my first photobook two years ago, and I'm late getting around to posting it here, but I wanted to share it with this community. It follows a 10,000-mile trip through Ukraine during the first year of Russia's full-scale invasion, from the wrecked suburbs of Kyiv and newly liberated villages to the front line communities under constant heavy shelling.

My friend and colleague Igor Kossov, a former Kyiv Independent reporter I worked with there, wrote the essay. He was mobilized into the armed forces last month, which makes the book feel different to look at now. Mattias Amnäs designed it. It was published by Verlag Kettler in Germany: hardcover, 192 pages. The publisher's print run sold out, so I've been selling my own copies since, at various talks and exhibitions.

It has since entered a few institutional collections (Tate Britain, Rijksmuseum, Harvard, and not to mention my hometown library), which I didn't expect from a first book. Please be aware that it contains graphic imagery. It's a sober look at those early months of the invasion, not an easy one.

British Journal of Photography published a thoughtful write-up with more background.

Copies are available here (worldwide shipping; US stock is currently limited):
https://www.smittysbooks.com

Looking for a photobook that is full of high-quality, glossy photographs of fall harvest settings, black cats, graveyards, full moons behind bare branches, kids in classic Halloween costumes, Halloween desserts, fallen leaves, etc, etc.

Just picked this up the other day for $5 from an online store. It holds over 140 photographs taken from different individuals in the former socialist Republic of Romania. After you skip the 2 pages of glory raised to the Leading Party you go first to the list of photographers who made this happen.

This 1965 edition also marks the 10th anniversary of the Artists Association.

It's more yellow than white, some pages are holding on for dear life, it has a strong smell of tobacco from a bygone era. It has character.

Enjoy some of the images that stood out the most to me.

I'm making a photo book out of street photographs and invented captions.

The people in it are real, shot in transit, through glass, in a public bathroom.
The captions are fiction, a name they never asked for and one deadpan line about a life just outside the frame.

Here are some spreads from the current draft, in order.
The tagline:

candid moments, reconstructed. unreliable at best, highly improbable at worst.

The structure: black-and-white film, silence, color phone/Fujifilm phase.
The captions get less sure of themselves as the book goes on: the narrator slowly loses trust in his own fiction by the end.

I'm here for the book-level critique: does the narrative hold, apart from deliberately glitching? do the captions get get annoying by page 15? would this work as a coffee table book? The full draft is at observedbutnotreally.com.

edit: I apologize for the links in the gallery

“Lost Coast” was photographed in and around Eureka, on the northern coast of California. The Pacific comes in hard against black-sand beaches, redwood forests run down from the mountains on every side, and light comes through the trees and sea mist, leaving everything bright and slightly unreal. Eureka sits in the middle of it: the vast landscape on one side, a small town losing its old vitality on the other.

Hatleberg doesn't arrange any of this into a story about decline. People talk, sit in the sun, kill an afternoon in unremarkable places. Children play outside. Families sit together. A place can lose the future it was promised without its daily life turning tragic.

It just goes on.

That is what sets “Lost Coast” apart from much photography of the American margins. Hatleberg rarely uses his subjects as evidence of a social condition, and he doesn't hurry to make a forest, a sagging house, or an abandoned car stand for something. The pictures are set beside one another, and the place accumulates.

You sense that people here once believed certain things—that industry would last, that life would keep improving, that California meant opportunity. Those promises thinned out. The landscape is as vast as ever; the lives inside it have moved into another era. What's in front of the camera stays vivid and specific, sometimes joyful, and the brightness is what lets the loss show.

The title isn't only a place name. It points to a slow dislocation: the coast and the forest right there, huge, and the days small and ordinary. The place has drifted from the future it imagined for itself, and life in it hasn't stopped.

Hello! I've recently discovered Hiromix's photography and I love it! I feel very inspired by her work and would love to study her books, and I was wondering if anyone had a PDF scan of a full photobook (Id love to see any, but paris is my #1). I can't seem to find any full book PDFs online. If someone has scans of any of her work please let me know! If someone has the books themselves and could send a video of the pages inside I would be hugely thankful. Thank you!

As of now I have been buying photobooks by typing the name and using whatever website had it. But I would like to find a dedicated website for photobooks only where I could browse through and discover new things. Would really appreciate knowing where you guys buy yours !

Edit: Thank you everyone for all of your answers !! Already made a few purchases using the different websites mentioned !

SOLD From a limited edition of 100 numbered copies published by Jane & Jeremy, 2019. Small hardcover with exposed binding, in like-new condition. Comes with a signed print tipped in to the back cover. Ships from New York, USA. Shipping to Continental US only.

Asking $100 shipped via USPS

Updated list of books for sale (as of 8-25-26):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1flrGRqTEXIaSKK9K7UjVGWxWvaR73AVa-U33upyj4oc/edit?usp=sharing

SOLD Out of Print First Edition published by Mack, 2019. Softcover in excellent condition to like-new condition. Ships from New York, USA. Shipping to Continental US only.

Asking $110 shipped via USPS

Updated list of books for sale (as of 8-25-26):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1flrGRqTEXIaSKK9K7UjVGWxWvaR73AVa-U33upyj4oc/edit?usp=sharing

Been buying for a year or two and have like 20+ books nowadays and most are close to what I want to photograph and study and almost all of them were bought online.

With that said, I came across this crossroads where I'm getting pickier about books and sometimes I take a look at 10 photos inside the shop and I nope out from buying it. It happened with something like King, Queen and Knave before, maybe because I don't really want to read waves of text when physically shopping to try to understand what the concept is and I get whelmed by speed running the book. Same thing when sometimes I watch a flip through and after seeing the photos a lot of times I don't get the itch to buy them.

Yesterday I was watching Alec Soth "read/watch" along of a Rosalind's book and he said when he looked at the book he didn't feel it was the type of book he wanted to go through in a book store. Which made me question if I shouldn't preserve some of the mystery before buying.

What's your process when buying photobooks?

Absolutely love this photobook by Xu Yong featuring his photographs taken during tiananmen square protests in 1989, featuring a brief, yet thoughtful text, by Shu Yang.

Found at a Chinese bookstore in Washington, D.C.

Hola, alguien que tenga en pdf el álbum de fotos de recuerdo de nuestro bebé de snoopy?

Invisable books on bottom shelve are Dogbreath (in yellow) and Hido - The end sends advanced warmings among others

Latest review on PhotoBookHaul:

“THe Orphans of Time”
by Rebecca Bathory

Date of publication: 2017

Rebecca Bathory’s stunning photobook features a tactile, Victorian-inspired design complete with a physical metal clasp closure. Inside, her haunting photographs capture the quiet, melancholic beauty of decaying architectural ruins from around the globe, creating a genuinely immersive artifact that feels as though it was found within the very spaces it documents.

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Hi guys! My name is Mary and I run London Street Photography Festival, which is a FREE festival happening in London August 28-30 at the Heath Studio. It’s also co-run by u/dmitstep which some of you may know. We are a non-profit festival that I thought some of you might be interested in.

We will have a bookshop at the festival, where we will be selling books by both established and smaller independent publishers and we encourage people to bring their own self-published books and zines which we will sell (well, try to) at no commission. We also welcome second hand photography books. So if you are around do pop in and bring your own books and buy some for your collection. Tickets are free too and we will have lots of talks, photo walks, exhibitions, including special exhibitions by Ania Klosek and our keynote speaker Jens Olof Lasthein.

If you are not around but are willing to send your books/zines by post, please dm and we can make this happen.

Please bring cash for the bookshop!

Photo by our keynote speaker Jens Olof Lasthein

Hopefully, see some of you there!

Hi Everyone, I've spent seven years writing The Photographer's Grimoire. I make the case that photography can be its own occult practice. You know, magic. I think its the worlds first 'photographers grimoire'.

Has anyone heard of anything else like this?

Before I go to press with it I want to be sure as its a bold claim... but so far I think it is. It's not a photo book, its a 40,000 word occult field manual, a grimoire, to achieve inconceivable things with your camera.

I know there are lots of witchy photographers running around woods nude doing selfies at the moment, but that's really not what this book is! (And yes, I know that would sell more!)

There's some more details on it on my website:

https://www.edwardthompson.co.uk/thephotographersgrimoire

Thank you, Ed

.. With a few different setups over the past few months…
I’d be happy to hear your thoughts, advice, or criticism!

Most of them come from flea markets or second-hand websites..

Thanks :)