the movement of our bodies (2025) gathers a decade of celebrated artist Elle Pérez’s reflections around photography. A collage of loose thoughts, letters, press articles and reviews, text messages, pictures, sketches, responses, emails, notes, and lectures, the book explores what Pérez chooses to photograph and what photography means to them. It is a tapestry of personal insights, intimate moments, and candid reflections, all woven through the medium.
A Criticism Review (2021/2024 second edition) is a manifesto where different writers reflect on how we can make changes within the writing community, carving out new ideas about how to work and be published. Contributions from Delphine Bedel, Susan Bright, David Campany, C-print, Lillian Davies, Travis Diehl, Andreas Frei, Tomas Lagermand Lundme, Nina M. Schjønsby & Halvor Haugen, Nicholas Muellner & Catherine Taylor and Nina Strand.
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Eye as a Camera (2024) explores the ways in which Emma Aars has been surrounded by the camera: growing up in a family of photographers, spending a summer modelling in New York as a teenager, and studying art writing. Drawing on the work of Ishiguro Miyaki, Nigel Shafran, Jamie Hawkesworth and others—as well as an essay on photography by the legendary Camilla Collett—Aars aims to create a visual language that sharpens the blur.
Søsterskap (2023) brings together photographers of different generations from the Nordic countries whose works reflect the socio-political context of the welfare state. The interplay between photography and this social democratic model is here seen as a key factor in defining the rich and multifaceted panorama of camerawork from the region, spanning from the 1980s to today. This publication accompanied the 2023 exhibition Søsterskap—Contemporary Nordic Photography, invited as one of the main exhibitions for the Les Rencontres d’Arles.
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Why must the mounted messenger be mounted? (2022/2023 second edition) by Lucas Blalock offers an expanded meditation on the artist’s twenty-year involvement with photography. In it, Blalock charts the development of his photographic ideas as they run alongside a tangled web of accidents, influence, romance, anxiety, and work. It is a book about coming of age with a preoccupation alternately in full bloom and on its last legs. The volume also reproduces many of Blalock's own photographs and artworks by his peers and influences. This title is currently translated to Mandarin, published by us and presented by Stasis Space.
Shaping Space (2021) takes as its fulcrum Lisa Bernhoft-Sjødin’s platform ArtConstructs. Through this online journal - hosted by Objektiv between 2018 and 2020 - she wrote several exhibition reviews in order to explore the current situation for non-white artists. These texts, together with some new ones, are re-edited and collected for this publication, to examine how we can shape a new space together.
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Visual Wanderings (2021) In April 2020, Objektiv initiated the online series Visual Wanderings, for which photographers from all over the world made art that responds to our new situation. The series ended in June 2021 and Objektiv #23: Visual Wanderings collects many of the contributions.
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Making Worlds (2020) by Morten Andenæs looks at the works of Lucas Blalock, Else Marie Hagen, Torbjørn Rødland and Tom Sandberg. Not content simply to describe the world, these artists see the photographic medium as instrumental in making sense of the world. Starting from the Icelandic notion of home as our initial world, Andenæs explores the acts of looking and representing as integral components of human development that determine what can and cannot be seen, thus defining our horizons.
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Perpetual Photographs (2020) by Nina Strand takes as its inspiration the column, ‘On my Mind’, presented in the very first issues of Objektiv, where different people wrote about an image that they couldn’t stop thinking about. For this essay, Strand looks more closely at images, interviews, impressions that are still on her mind. Her essay contains quotes from artists such as Laure Prouvost, Frida Orupabo, Elle Pérez and in this way weaves a dialogue of many voices, instead of making a fixed statement, offering a wider picture of artistic practices.
The book Double (2025) accompanies the exhibition by Carol Newhouse and Carmen Winant at this year’s Les Rencontres d'Arles. Through her exploration of radical reinvention—especially within 1970s lesbian separatist communities—Carmen Winant connected with Carol Newhouse, co-founder of WomanShare.
Over the course of a year, they engaged in a photographic dialogue: one shot a roll of film, sent it across the country, and the other re-exposed it using double exposure.
Double invites us to consider how we reinvent ourselves and our histories through shared self-representation and interconnection. Taking a fulcrum in Newhouse’s archive, their work gives form to intergenerational relationships and feminist legacies, bringing past experimental photographic practices into the present.