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Rodrigo Gomez Rovira - Ultimo Sur

Atelier EXB 2020 ISBN 9782365112093 Acqn 30218
Hb 21x28cm 144pp ills £41.95
Text in French

Ultimo Sur takes the reader on a journey to the end of the world combining Rodrigo Gomez
Rovira's photographs with the ones of his grandfather who moved to Tierra del Fuego in 1938
after Chile's great land reforms. Nearly forty years later, the next generation fled to France to
escape the dictatorship. In the mid-1990s, Rodrigo Gomez Rovira decided to return to Chile in
search of his roots and family history. Ultimo Sur is a hybrid book, bringing together a family
album created by his grandfather and the author's own photographs of the vast region of Tierra
del Fuego, a magnificent and isolated land, letting the imagination run wild. It reveals an arduous
agricultural world in which farmers led difficult lives. Portraits that bear witness to a forgotten time
are slipped between scenes of daily life and the wild imposing landscapes between the
mountains and the sea.

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Louise Honee - We Love Where We Live

Atelier EXB 2020 ISBN 9782365112567 Acqn 30674
Hb 19x24cm 108pp ills £32

Like a visual tale, Dutch photographer Louise Honee takes us into the daily life of children and
teenagers of West Virginia. Louise Honee turned her gaze to the forgotten America decimated by
the demise of the mining industry. She shares a poetical, intimate and hopeful view on the
relationship and attachment of this youth to the environment where they have grown up.

The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie celebrates in 2020 its 25th edition. The Prize supports each
year two photographers, that have not published a monograph yet, in the production of a book
published by Atelier EXB and a traveling exhibition throughout France.

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Charlotte Mano - Thank You Mum

Atelier EXB 2020 ISBN 9782365112574 Acqn 30675
Hb 19x24cm 108pp col ills £32

Shaken by her mother's illness, Charlotte Mano has initiated a photographic series staging their
daily life into micro-fictions. A response to transform these moments together and celebrate their
complicity when the mother becomes little by little the operator of the stagings imagined by the
photographer. The two women completely unveil themselves and share in this way the universal
strength of mother-daughter relationship.

This series has received the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2020 and, gathered in this first
monograph, it questions the power of the image but also its own limits in a wacky, contemplative
and unsettling atmosphere.

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Leila Jeffreys - Des Oiseaux

Atelier EXB 2020 ISBN 9782365112581 Acqn 30716
Hb 21x26cm 96pp col ills £37.50

Leila Jeffreys takes us with this book into a journey through tropical forests and jungles all over
the world towards astonishing bird species that she has been taking studio portraits of since
2008: "I've long noticed how many birds have specific expressions, just like us", she explains.
Jeffreys' images, which rely on a profound connection with her sitters cultivated over many years,
are an exercise in both artistry and empathy. Cultivating the art of waiting, Jeffreys develops a
gallery of whimsical and hyper-realist portraits where all the birds come attired in their most
beautiful finery with sumptuous plumage colors. One by one, they let their character shine
through: graceful, mischievous, shy, proud, timid, poseur, all of which seem to want to chat to the
viewer. Her practice underlines how humans anthropomorphize animals and what we really do
share.

This publication is part of the Des oiseaux (On birds) collection celebrating, through the vision of
different artists, their immense presence in a world where they are now vulnerable.
Accompanying these photographs, the ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre writes a special essay.
Titles in this collection include: Graciela Iturbide, Michael Kenna, Yoshinori Mizutani, Bernard
Plossu, Pentti Sammallahti, and Terri Weifenbach.

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Albarran Cabrera - Dea Oiseaux

Atelier EXB 2020 ISBN 9782365112604 Acqn 30981
Hb 21x26cm 96pp col ills £37.50

The poetic universe of Spanish photographers duo Albarran Cabrera is presented here through a
dreamscape journey in the land of birds. Between reality and illusion, their photographs questions
our relationship to the tangible world and vibrate gently through a wide palette and different
photographic techniques: platinum and palladium prints, cyanotypes, gelatin prints, and
pigmented printing_

Each photograph is like a story that seems to have been paused. The birds seem to be straight
out of fantastical fairy tales; they merge into space, are revealed on reflective surfaces, and slip
into the undergrowth whereas sometimes their physical presence is underlined by a tight framing.
The birds are revealed through abstracting shapes sometimes simple dots and shadows.
Albarran Cabrera leave the interpretation of their images to the memory of the viewer and let our
imagination fly.

This publication is part of the Des oiseaux (On birds) collection celebrating, through the vision of
different artists, their immense presence in a world where they are now vulnerable.
Accompanying these photographs, the ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre writes a special essay. For
this title, Lesaffre focuses on the different environments birds live in and their unbelievable
capacity to adapt themselves whether it is in the sky, water or at the highest summits.

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Marie Bovo – Nocturnes

Atelier EXB 2020 ISBN 9782365112550 Acqn 31039
Hb 21x26cm 160pp col ills £45

This monograph captures the full breadth of Marie Bovo's work. The French photographer
captures physical spaces at dusk occupied by diverse communities, in search for their traces that
suggest human presences while they are absent from the image. Based in Marseille, the
photographer focuses on different places of the Mediterranean basin and African coasts: inside
courts, a kebab restaurant or a Romani camp in Marseille, empty apartments in Algier or open-air
kitchens in Ghana. "It's not so much the architecture that interests me," Bovo says, "but how it is
used and lived in ."Her photographs reveal what is hidden, what lasts in the silence.

Bovo's long exposures in natural light with her large-format camera captures the most little
details. Time and movement are the components with which she constructs her images and
invites the viewer to examine every component. Objects disappear from one image to the other,
light fades in nearly surreal tints, the photograph becomes pictorial. This permanent oscillation
between past and present suggests many stories to come.

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