Mr. Mkhize’s Portrait and Other Stories from the New South Africa
Shelfmark - 1243.SP/POR.BROOMBERG,CHANARIN
Shelfmark - 1409.SP.KALINOWSKA
Shelfmark - 1286.SP.TWELVE
Shelfmark - 1205.SP/PER.BRINK,SHILLAND
Witch Hunt Vol. I: The Banished of Balsapuerto
Shelfmark - 586.SP.GEOGHEGAN
At the end of 2011, Peruvian national news broke a story about a series of barbaric murders that took place deep in the Peruvian Amazon in a region called Balsapuerto, home to the indigenous Shawi. In a period of just ten months, 14 traditional Shawi healers (or ‘curanderos’, as they are known locally) were reported to have become victims of a wave of brutal killings. According to local reports, the suspected orchestator behind these murders was Balsapuerto’s acting Mayor at the time, Alfredo Torres Rucoba. Accused of carrying out a politically motivated campaign of witch killings he, and his brother Augusto, earnt themselves that local nickname ‘Los Matabrujos’. The Banished of Balsapuerto is an ongoing investigation into these deaths and the theories behind them, using a mix of on-location interviews, previously unreleased police and court materials, excerpts from local press coverage as well as original photographs and illustrations and in-depth writing. "Witch Hunt Vol. I: The Banished of Balsapuerto" was shortlisted for the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles (2020), the Images Vevey Book Award (2021) and the MACK First Book Award (2021) among others.
Hardcover with 1 x Perfect Bound Book + 1 x Swiss Section Bound Book. Offset Printing.
Americanos explores the complex emotional landscape of modern America through a deeply personal lens. The book serves as an intimate anthropological study of a nation caught between its mythic ideals and its stark realities.
When time stood still London During Covid 19
Shelfmark - 276.SP/DOC.MAROHN
Habitat is a series of photographs taken between 2016 and 2020. Marohn captured these photographs of homelessness whilst walking through Central London. During 2016 Marohn became acutely aware of an increase in tents outside London Underground Stations. It was then she decided to document the looming epidemic of homelessness. Marohn was drawn to the subject by the stark contrast between the misery of homelessness and the wealth of the city. With their meagre belongings, they invariably made a very distinct ‘habitat’ out of their environment even in the most extreme circumstances. They made out of what little they possessed or could find a kind of identifiable ‘home’. It became routinely obvious that many passers-by were oblivious and lacked care due to desensitisation. The project was approached counter-intuitively. Marohn documented the subject matter by removing all human presence from the frame to avoid an invasion of privacy. This had an effect of heightening a sense of desolation, isolation and destitution. Simultaneously, the eccentric and highly individualised ‘order within disorder’ was brought into sharp relief. Marohn states: “I was conflicted as I found a certain aesthetic beauty in the arrangement of the material objects in the frame, yet it was difficult witnessing scenes of deprivation in this wretched social condition.”
Softcover Matt 170gsm Sewn Perfect Bound
Shelfmark - 1410.SP/POR.CLERIHAW
Shelfmark - 1466.SP.SYKES
Shelfmark - 861.SP.BRUCE
Xenitia is an archive, centered on displacement to Greece. It is framed by two motifs: “nostos” (Classical Greek; to return home, homecoming) and “algos” (Classical Greek; pain, grief). Together, these affect-laden words form the root of “nostalgia”. “Xenitia” itself is a Greek term that encompasses the state of being a foreigner, otherness, estrangement, loss, distance, and a profound yearning for home soil. The collection, which was made in 2016, produces a complex mosaic of movement and feeling within Greece. In 1923, a treaty was drawn up between the governments of Greece and Turkey which forcibly displaced millions of people from their homes. Recent economic hardship in Greece has produced a fresh wave of emigration. At the same time, hundreds of people fleeing war and persecution at home arrive on Greek shores every day. Xenitia elicits comparison between the local and the universal, conjuring similarities amongst diverse experiences.
Section sewn, with gatefold cover, and embossed title on back cover, Litho printed