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John Choy Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate Asia One 2011 ISBN 9789881882332 Acqn 21026 Hb 26x20cm 252pp col ills 46.50 In 2008, local photographer John Choy was commissioned by the Housing Authority to document the Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate, the earliest public housing development in Hong Kong. To his surprise, Choy found himself deeply affected by the crumbling housing blocks and their residents. He became determined to create an in-depth record of not just the estate, but a unique way of life. Created over a period of a year, Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate gives a sense of how the human spirit transcends the narrow physical confines of the man-made environment.

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Conversations with Photographers Basilico, Palma, Petersen, Goldblatt, Ballester, Aballi La Fabrica 2011 ISBN 9788492841981 Acqn 21023 Box 11x16cm 500pp ills 50.95 For this fifth volume in La Fbrica's slipcased pocketbook Conversations with Photographers series, Gabriele Basilico is interviewed by Roberta Valtorta; Luis Gonzlez Palma by Gerardo Mosquera; Anders Petersen by Nicols Combarro; David Goldblatt by Katherine Slucher; Jos Manuel Ballester by Digenes Moura; and Ignasi Aball by Srgio Mah. Also available: Conversations with Photographers Baldessari, Collins, Hutte, Puch, Tillmans, Wall La Fbrica 2009 ISBN 9788492498895 Acqn 18707 Pb 11x15cm 406pp 24ills 20col 51 Conversations with Photographers Casebere, Abramovi, Plensa, Barclay, Molder, Gonnord La Fbrica 2008 ISBN 9788492498307 Acqn 16974 Box 11x15cm 464pp ills 45

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Taisuke Koyama / Kohei Nawa Sandwich Textures Lumen 09 Artbeat 2011 ISBN 9784902080407 Acqn 20884 Pb 38x51cm 28pp 28col ills 21.50 In this special issue of Lumen newspapers the collaboration of two young Japanese artists, Taisuke Koyama and Kohei Nawa is featured. Taisuke Koyama is a self-taught photographer and has won numerous awards and has published three books titled: Your Surviving Door, Dark Matter and entropix. Kohei Nawa on the other hand mainly makes sculptures and is known for his ideas on taxidermy on objects such as sneakers, musical instruments, toys and fake fruit.

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Zanele Muholi African Women Photographers 1 La Fabrica 2011 ISBN 9788415303466 Acqn 21028 Hb 17x24cm 110pp ills 27.95 Promoted by Casa Africa, this collection is aimed at making the most outstanding African women photographers better known, particularly those who have won the Casa Africa Award at the Bamako African Photography Biennial. Zanele Muholi is the first title of this collection. Born in Durban (South Africa) in 1972, Muholi is a visual activist who endeavours to give greater visibility to the black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of Africa. Although her perspective is highly radical and provocative, it is simultaneously filtered through a truly intense, lucid and profoundly tender gaze.

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Yoshihiko Ueda 86 Artbeat 2011 ISBN 9784902080377 Acqn 20885 Pb 22x27cm 88pp 39 b+w ills 51.95 Yoshihiko Ueda's first head-on encounter with photography was at Visual Arts College Osaka. After graduation, he worked as photographer's assistant, first under Masanobu Fukuda in 1980, and then with Taiji Arita in 1981, both of whom likewise imparted marked influences. Since going independent in 1982, Ueda has worked in fashion photography, advertising stills and commercial film production, building an impressive portfolio of professional commissions and projects. While interested in all aspects of photography. 86 is his latest book on a woman portrayed wearing hats.

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Andreas Zust Himmel Edition Patrick Frey 2011 ISBN 9783905929003 Acqn 21027 Hb 21x28cm 240pp ills 78.95 By the late 1970s, Andreas Zst had already begun photographing the atmospheres visual and meteorological phenomena: lightning, twilight, halos, fog bows, weather fronts and zodiacal lights. In the mid 1990s he started to collaborate with author Peter Weber, with as a result the multimedia exhibit Himmel which included the most important of his pictures. This atmospheric book of photos contains more than 150 pictures and is accompanied by texts written by various authors.

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