We Publish Photography: Learning from AKAAKA
AKAAKA Art Publishing was founded in 2006. Since then, founder Kimi Himeno and her team have built a remarkable catalogue of photography and art books, working with both emerging and established photographers while exploring what a photobook can be. For us, Looking at AKAAKA reminds us why we chose to publish photography in the first place.
The Invisible Rainbow of Shanghai Remembering a City Through Mi Lu’s Rainbow at Night
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.
Women Behind the Lens: Celebrating Women in Photography with Zontiga
For International Women’s Day, Zontiga celebrates the women photographers who have shaped how we see the world, past and present.
Photobookclub Kuala Lumpur: “A photobook is a statement that indulges the audience with a personal level of intimacy”
Photobookclub Kuala Lumpur on Malaysia’s first photobook exhibition, the Malaysian Photobook Archive, and the intimacy a photobook can offer.
Joy Chan: “Art offers perspectives to observe our own existence, to point out and clarify the neglected and the unnoticed”
Malaysian visual artist Joy Chan on anthropology, documentary practice, and ‘The Outfall’, her exhibition of landscapes stained by polluted river water.
“The soul has no colour”: Fitri Jalil on racial identity and his upcoming exhibition
Engineer-turned-photographer Fitri Jalil discusses ‘The Malay’, his exhibition on racial identity, and why he wants us to see people beyond skin colour.