Weekendreading Found on the Meta-list -You Are What You Do – Daniel Arnold -Catálogo – Ricardo Cases -Algo que pesa – Daniel L. Fleitas -4 Sides of the Table – Ruth Lauer Manenti -Too Many Products Too Much Pressure – Janet Delaney -The Weight of Ash – Ian Bates viory.substack.com/p/informal-c...

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"The Post has always been a writers’ paper, a newsroom so thoroughly scrappy that simultaneously anything seems possible—big ideas, big ambition—and it still feels like a small miracle each day when such consistently good journalism emerges from such glorious mayhem." They deserve so much better.

Finally, my favourite own photobook year-end list!

(gift link) ICE is turning its surveillance state on U.S. citizens. This is known:

In case you need new energy after these exhausting two weeks.

“We urge you to consider how the proposed layoffs will certainly lead us first to irrelevance – not the shared success that remains attainable," WSJ staffers wrote [to owner Besos]. “We know what happens when newspapers slash their international sections: they lose reach and they lose relevance.”

“I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you [ICE] human anymore?’” (...) It reminded me again of the Tahrir Square protests in 2011, when so many people seemed to have reached a moral and political turning point.

I came to understand that Europe finally decided to end appeasement politics. I hope this shows the New York Times is planning the same, and other media will follow. More like this, please.

❄️✨ Table 1 (New Year!) ✨❄️ Looking forward To a more sensitive and sensible year ❄️ Ctrl Shift+J – Sayuri Ichida ❄️ Trois mers et quatre terres – Stéphane Charpentier & Damien Daufresne ❄️ Dissonances – Boris Snauwaert ❄️ Blank Notes – Marshall To ❄️ Dilucolo “Before the Dawn" – Ben Osborne

The Photobook Community List Half as many lists as in other years so far. I do miss certain voices and books that deserve to be on it, but we are not done yet and it sure is interesting already! Please, keep sending your lists. Publishers are welcome to tip me off too!

Happy Holidays!

❄️🎄 I have set an extra table for Christmas 🎄❄️ • Dimma Brume Mist – JH Engström • Maine – Gerry Johansson • The Classroom – Hicham Benohoud • Windows to the Unexpected | fenêtres sur l'insolite – Albarrán Cabrera • Starlings – Jem Southam • The Killing Ditch - Damien Wootten • Sistermoon – Siri Kaur

December Batch • Octopus – Pasquale Autiero, Gil Barez, Vincen Beeckman, Stéphane Charpentier, Manu Jougla, Marie Sordat, Mathieu Van Assche & Simon Vansteenwinckel • Distribution – Daniel Shea • Tall Socks – Marc Cohen • BRRRXL – Mathieu Van Assche • Owl – Yamamoto Masao • Moon City – Mimi Mollico

This article encourages us to seek out things more beautiful or interesting on our own, rather than relying on AI-generated 'best of' lists. I realise how fortunate we are that so many people in Photo Land are still willing to compile their year-end lists with personal motivation, not an easy task.

Informal Community List The Party Is On

"It's a routine we few crazy souls around here have, and perhaps it serves us like when we used to send greetings by post. I like to think of it as a kind of secret message, like smoke signals to share what still moves us. In the end, we're left with a few gestures and many books." Gabriela Cendoya

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Meta-list 2023 has been moved from Facebook to Substack. And 2024 is expected today!

Moving fast now...

Another photobook meta-list moved from Facebook to Substack. Countdown to Listmas accelerates. The first year-end list of the year (www.whatwillyouremember.com/our-favorite...) has arrived already.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

Meta-list 2020 Moved 💪

Handmade Book Weekend • Interesting Things –Salome Erni • Police, Politicians, Policy, Politeness –Larry • The Dog Sat Where We Parted –Mahmoud Khattab • Track –Hajime Kimura • A Discreet Exit Through Darkness & Things We Lost Last Night –Soumya Sanker Bose • El vuelo lleva al vuelo –Juanan Requena

I like the look of this revamped 2019 meta-list –five more to refresh and migrate from the archive before a new list-mas starts.

It's a visual party now!

Meta-list Migration Message The Meta-list archive moves to Substack Today: Photobook Meta-list 2017 Moved

Weekend Reading •Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. by Edgar Martins •love knot by Yuri Goto •Radiations of War by Yana Kononova •Angan-Angan Harsa by Farid Renais Ghimas •The Waning Season by Oliver Gerhartz •Our Hidden Room by Mohamed Hassan •空氣 Atmosphere – 時津剛 by Takeshi Tokitsu

META-LIST MIGRATION MESSAGE – I'm moving the Photobook Meta-list from Facebook to Substack. It took me two weeks to revamp and migrate the first two of ten lists, but I'm still planning to be up to date when the new 'List-mas' starts. Until then, get anew inspired here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Books on the USA Americans Seen – Sage Sohier In the American West – Richard Avedon It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel – Raymond Thompson Jr In The Shadows – Simon Vansteenwinckel Twelve Acres – Henry O Head American – Robin de Puy Soup – Mike Brodie & Soup The Reservoir – Mimi Plumb

Getting ready for Halloween? Enjoy these photographs by Peter Mitchell and the lyrical description by Geoff Dyer. "As the scarecrows collapse in on themselves, it’s as if they end up consuming their own body fat just to stay alive — if that is the word, which clearly it is not." gift article NYT

Nala 🖤 gone but still loved

A forensic investigation of 219 killings points to Israel's deliberate targeting of reporters to suppress the truth about its assault on the enclave. Find out the details in these animated figures.

"Second, antitrust authorities should not allow large corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests to buy major newspapers or media platforms. They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their financial interests in their range of businesses."

This photo sale for Gaza ends on Oct 4. Get a fine art print by one of 100 participating Belgian photographers. Proceeds will be donated to: The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund, The Wings of Healing, Doctors Without Borders, the Palestine Film Institute, and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.

♥️ Reading • The Overmorrow – Damien Daufresne (Lamaindonne) • Riverland – Marjolein Martinot (Stanley/Barker) • This is ̶n̶o̶t̶ about the Devil Inside – David Ameye (self-published) • Snow – Max Sher (The Velvet Cell) • Mary’s Book – Robert Frank (MFA Publications) • Kalabongo – Jorge Panchoaga (RM)

Stephen Gill: "For any donation [to Unicef for Gaza], no matter the amount, I’ll send you a high-resolution digital image from my photographic series The Pillar. (...) You can print the image at home, at a local lab or supermarket, or simply just donate what you are able or use it as a screensaver."

France issued warrants for Syria's ousted president Assad and six other former officials, for the 2012 bombing of the city of Homs that killed two journalists. Rights groups said the warrants pave the way for a trial in France for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Assad's regime.

The killing of journalist Anas al-Sharif in Gaza may be a war crime. Could Israel be prosecuted? Yes, legal experts tell @joelsimonsays.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social.

• Binom – Natalia Drachinskaya • Getting Wet Feet – Viktorija Makauskait • With Love, from an Invader: Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me – Yan Wang Preston • Ossada – Gui Marcondes • Rock. Bird. Fire. – Boris Snauwaert • Solomiya No.4: Environmental • The Snow Abides – Nina Viviana Cangialos

Freedom of the Press Journalists Washington DC Protests

Enjoying the afterglow of a wonderful weekend

Thank you for having us, Max! #ourAmsterdamHost

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Suspending it in full would require unanimity among the bloc's 27 member states and is unlikely to happen. But the agreement's provisions could be shelved on Tuesday if a qualified majority votes in favour. This would require backing from 15 countries representing at least 65% of the EU's population

Weekend Reading • Ukraine – Eddy van Wessel • Yellow Pine – Harrison Miller • Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions – Mandy Barker • Thought Trails – Jacky Mulder • Vanishing – Anna Arendt • And Then There Was the Night – Magdalena Wysocka & Claudio Pogo Publishers in alt text

*Unboxing after Berlin • Borderland – Filippo Barbero • Nacht & Nebel – Christian Reister • Leipzig Hauptbahnhof 1981/82 – Helga Paris • Berlin, Fruchtstraße on March 27, 1952 – Arwed Messmer • RAF No Evidence / Kein Beweis – Arwed Messmer • You Felt Your Roots Grow – Sabine Hess

With 150.000 others, we draw a red line to urge our government to condemn the genocide in Gaza. And we'll be ready for a repeat. Last month, it took our premier three days to respond to 100.000 protesters. Now he reacted with just a lie on X.

Francesca Albanese—the moment Israeli military forces intercepted the Madleen, a UK flagged civilian vessel, in international waters.

Over 400 professional photographers have added their support to an open letter by James Colton, Dave Burnett and Maria Mann (former Chairs and jurors of the World Press Photo Contest). They call on World Press Photo to reconsider their position regarding Nick Ut's 'Napalm Girl' image.