Books
Photobook spotlights, themed reading lists, and profiles of the people who collect them.
Themed roundup
August 7, 2026
Five books that open a window onto how photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, Meyerowitz and Adams actually work, and why there is no single right way.
Single spotlight
August 7, 2026
Artist Brian Fouhy finds humour in the everyday objects we stop noticing, making a case for taking a second look at the world around us.
Community
July 26, 2026
The third Reading Photographs Notes explores three works that challenge a familiar assumption: that a photobook must behave like a book. Together, they prompted conversations about material, memory, authorship, and how the form of a book can become inseparable from the photographs it carries.
Single spotlight
July 15, 2026
Pale Flare describes an observation about photographic culture in Thailand, though it applies well beyond. Exhibition statements tend to close down interpretation rather than open it.
Photographer interviews
July 15, 2026
Behind Shanghai's familiar skyline exists another city, one that few people ever see. Rainbow at Night is Mi Lu's portrait of that hidden world, and of photography's quiet power to preserve what time eventually takes away.
Community
June 14, 2026
The second Reading Photographs Notes gathers conversations inspired by three photobooks that approach family from very different perspectives. Together, they prompted reflections on memory, inheritance, and the ways photographs sometimes help us begin conversations that are otherwise difficult to have.
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