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SIPF Photobooks Showcase
It is funny that in this digital era we continue to witness the expanding interest into the photobook as a…

The Maze
This work is about the homecoming. After eight years abroad I moved back to my hometown of Moscow only to…

Once Upon The Sea
Two Chinese characters make up the name of Shanghai, 上(shàng, “upon”) and 海 (hǎi, “sea”), together meaning “Upon-the-Sea”. In the…

Gaze
The flight for Hong Kong’s freedom has blossomed in the past year. Facing crackdown, the protest movement could do little…

The Dayspring of Eternity
May the dreamy nightfall stay forever Is there ever Eternity? For those who live long enough one would understand Eternity…

The Last of Us: Wandering on the Remaining Beams
It is a diary that ignites with images and words; a duet composed by the very last of us. The…

Postcard from K
There are no indigenous people left here. They were uprooted and replaced with new ones. “First People’s Land” — as…

Photo Entanglement
This fotobook works as a pair to instantaneously know what your other unique half is at any distances. One of…

The Crescent Void
It begins with a worn-out photo. Hiding in an album my grandmother left us after she passed away is a…

Clean Hong Kong Action
As a Hong Konger, I have participated in social movements as much as I could. As a man who responds…

So close and yet so far away
The idea of the border originated from my childhood memories. I was born in China. When I was a child,…

The man who attends to the times
This is a series of 29 artist books. The books are composed with two timelines: 1971-2000: Untracing the story behind…

White Card
White Card in Black Box The dialogue proposed in this photobook articulates two works impacted by the Brazilian context. White…

Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award
To promote photobook culture, Hong Kong Photobook Festival was founded by Lumenvisum in 2020. The Festival aims to connect photographers,…

KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2022
The KASSEL DUMMY AWARD of the FOTOBOOKFESTIVAL KASSEL for the best unpublished photo book design of the year, has been…

We Were Farmers
My family have been farmers for generations, from the 1960s till 2020. “We Were Farmers” is a personal project documenting…

We are Made of Grass, Soil, Trees, and Flowers
The title “We are made of Grass, Soil, Trees, and Flowers” adds the word “flowers” to the title of Yamamoto’s…

Utaki
Ricardo is a produce of the Okinawan immigration to Brazil and he carries the mixture of three cultures in his…

Undo Motherhood
Undo Motherhood explores the reasons why a significant number of women around the world today regret becoming mothers. The women…

Two Thousand Words
‘Two Thousand Words’ is a photobook that analyzes the active resistance, but eminently peaceful, that was carried out in Czechoslovakia…

The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case
The Verdict – The Christina Boyer Case is a multi-layered case study of the U.S. Criminal Justice system and mass…

The Quickening
The Quickening explores the transformation and lived experience of a woman in her motherhood/matrescence and postpartum depression/anxiety. The work interrogates…

The Quarantine Report
‘The Quarantine Report’ is a body of work I started when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Thailand in March 2020. The…

THE LAST SUMMIT
My father died in a slip-and-fall accident on July 15, 2017, at Mt. Ryokami in Chichibu County, Saitama Prefecture. At…

The Good Place
“The Good Place” is my observation of Varanasi, one of India’s Holy Cities. Varanasi “The holy land,” as they called…

The Ditch
The Ditch recounts the story of a forgotten defence line built on Öland, a small island on the east coast…

SOMMERSPIELE (Summer Games)
The last real summer I can remember was the one in 2016. Warm, sweet, full of promises, so many festivities,…

Room no.2
Room no.2 (2020) is a project exploring Khlong Toey – the largest and most densely populated working-class community in Bangkok….

Quatre Mains / Zonder Handen
After my father died, I started emptying his house and found a box with old polaroids in. They were taken…

Polder VIII
Polder VIII Tuindorp Oostzaan is a special neighbourhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It was built 100 years ago on the…

Materiality of Grief
Materiality of Grief is a visual manifestation of loss following the artist’s grandfather’s death. With the use of autoethnography, the…

Laws of the Haystack
“Laws of the haystack” is an investigation into the hidden shapes and meanings of 1 photo. During a holiday in…

Instagrampier
The Instagrampier is a public cargo pier located on the west side of Hong Kong Island. Every day, a great…

How to Look Natural in Photos
How to Look Natural in Photos is a book about a totalitarian system which uses photography for its purposes. It…

How to store your stuff in nature
I stayed in Thailand and Indonesia for a year and a half. The new flora in the tropics brought me…

How to Raise a Hand
How to Raise a Hand is a work shaped by mourning and by the finding of a box containing 313…

Hiroshima Graph – Everlasting Flow
On an early midsummer morning, from a clear, pure blue sky, a single bomb was dropped. In an instant, the…

Hijack Geni
In 2003, when the so-called “It’s me scam” was first becoming known to the public, this crime was perpetrated by…

Hayal & Hakikat: A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment
The photographs in this work depict the hands of prisoners from the early 20th century Turkey, drawn from the photograph…

Ground Truth
What is the relation between what we see and what is there? Ground Truth observes the evolution of visual technology…

Empty Forest
‘Empty Forest’ is about a woman called Emma Hauck who was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg (Germany), where…

Elusive Rainbow
Our lives are shaped by history. We can also shape history. In this book I overlay with a projector on…

Eat A Chili《吃辣椒》
Eat A Chili: A Photo Novella In this hybrid fiction, the human consumption of chili pepper has surged beyond the…

Cornucopia
CORNUCOPIA is about abundance in times of pandemic isolation and restrictions. The content of CORNUCOPIA a is formed around the…

A Visitor’s Book
The Ajeeb Ghar Archive is a research project on museums in India, constituted of photographs of exhibition galleries and comments…