Significant Photobook(s):

• Olifantenpaadjes (Elephant Paths), Jan Dirk van der Burg

Favourite photographer(s):

• Alex Webb
• Ed Kashi

Recent Discoveries:

• Ebrahim Alipoor

Significant Photobook(s):

• Ansel Adams, Taos Pueblo
• Ernst Haas, The Creation

Favourite photographer(s):

• Anastasia Samoylova

Recent Discoveries:

• Vincent Munier, Arctic
• Hiroshi Sugimoto

Significant Photobook(s):

• Ravens, Masahisa Fukase

Favourite photographer(s):

• Walker Evans

Recent Discoveries:

• None

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Significant films(s):

• Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore.
• The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris.

Favourite documentary filmmakers(s):

• Errol Morris
• Joshua Oppenheimer

Recent Discoveries:

• Casting JonBenet, Kitty Green

Significant documentary films:

• Brother’s Keeper, Joe Berlinger
• Dina, Antonio Santini & Dan Sickles

Notable or influential documentary filmmakers(s):

• Theo Anthony
• Joshua Oppenheimer

Recent Discoveries:

• Nuisance Bear, Gabriela Osio & Jack Weisman

Significant Photobook(s):

• Ed Van Der Elsken, Bagara
• Peter Beard, End Of The Game
• Bill Burke, Autrefois Maison Privee

Favourite photographer(s):

• John Wolsely - Watercolorist, not a photographer.

Recent Discoveries:

• None

Significant Photobook(s):

• Byan Bag Regnen, Krass Clement
• Telex Iran, Gilles Peress
• Wintereisse, Luc Delahaye

Favourite photographer(s):

• James Nachtwey
• Eugene Richards

Recent Discoveries:

• Lars Tunbjörk 

Significant films(s):

• Finding Vivian Maier, John Maloof
• The Up series (UK TV)

Favourite documentary filmmakers(s):

• Too many to answer. 

Recent Discoveries:

• Black Box Diaries, Shiori Ito
• The Golden Spurtle, Constantine Costi

Shout out to I am Martin Parr producer Emmanuelle Lepers

Significant films(s):

• Sherman’s March, Ross McElwee
• Tarnation, Jonathan Caouette

Favourite documentary filmmakers(s):

• Werner Herzog
• Kirsten Johnson

Recent Discoveries:

• I Like It Here, Ralph Arlyk

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• The Filth and the Fury, Julian Temple
• London, Patrick Keiller

Favourite documentary filmmakers(s):

• Asif Kapadia
• Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Recent Discoveries:

• Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, Sepideh Farsi

• Katy Barron
• Alex Schneiderman
• PatriciaBaker-Cassidy
• Some musicians whose names I did not get
• Jillian Edelstein

Significant Photobook(s):

• Fruit Tramps: A Family of Migrant Farmworkers by Herman Leroy Emmet
• America Pictures by Jacob Holdt

Favourite photographer(s):

• Larry Towell
• Boris Mikhailov

Recent Discoveries:

• James Han

Significant Photobook(s):

• Satellites by Jonas Bendiksen

Favourite photographer(s):

• Tony Ray-Jones

Recent Discoveries:

• Saul Leiter
• As It Was Give(n) To Me by Stacey Kranitz

Significant Photobook(s):

• Leonard Freed photographs 1954 - 1990

Some favourite photographers:

• PHilip Jones Griffiths
• Don McCullin

Recent Discoveries ( or, actually, former students):

• Meredith Kohut
• Tamir Kalifa

Rankin:

Significant Photobook(s):

• Evidence - Richard Avedon
• The Defenders: Heroes of the Global Fight for Human Rights - Platon

Some favourite photographers:

• Too many to name. But, Annie Leibovitz “is not given enough love….”

Recent Discoveries:

• Nadia Lee Cohen
• Prince Gyasi
• Gabriel Moses

Tony:

Significant Photobook(s):

• Wim Wenders: Paris, Texas
• Next Stop: Fotografie Toon Michiels

Some favourite photographers:

• Joel Meyervitz
• Josef Koudelka
• Mary Ellen Mark

Recent Discoveries:

• Village People 1965—1990, Jindřich Štreit
• Anarene, Mikel Bastida

• Jasper by Matthew Genitempo
• She Dances on Jackson by Vanessa Winship

Some favourite photographers:

• Vanessa Winship
• Sally Mann
• Emmet Gowin
• Andre Kertesz
• Saul Leiter

Recent Discoveries:

• Studio 54 by Todd Papageorge
• I Imagined It Empty by Ruth Lauer Manenti
• Epitome by Vic Bakin
• Malparaiso by JM Rameriz-suassi

Anna’s picks:

Significant photobook(s):

Good Days Quiet - Robert Frank

Recent discoveries:

Helen Levitt

A Favourite Photographer:

Masao Yamamoto 

(+ filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky)

You can find the archive of Photobook Focus video recordings here.

Mohamed's picks:

Significant photobook(s):

Richard Avedon, In The American West

Recent discoveries:

Marvin Bonheur, La Trilogie du Bonheur

A Favourite Photographer:

August Sander

The archive of Photobook Focus video recordings can be found here.

And last week's brilliant guest Paul Seawright returns to take on the bonus questions.

Pauls picks for...

Significant photobook(s):

Troubled Land, Paul Graham

The Map, Kikuji Kawada

New West, Robert Adams

The Pond, John Gossage

Recent discoveries:

Jose Pedro Cortez, Things Here And Things Still To Come

Lucy Jackson & Joel Seawright, Fantasy Ireland

Bryan Schutmaat, Sons of the Living

Favourite Photographer:

Paul Graham, among others

Featuring:

• Ed Thompson
• Robin Titchener
• Briony Campbell

Last week's guest Marc Wilson tackles the bonus questions. Marc's picks:

Significant photobook:

• Robert Frank, The Lines Of My Hand

Recent discovery:

• Chris Hoare, Seven Hills
• Michael Ormerod, American Photographs

Favourite photographers:

• Robert Frank
• Christian Boltanski

...And last week's guest Mackenzie Calle tackles the bonus questions.

Mackenzie's Picks:

Photobooks:

• Afronauts, Cristina De Middel
• Jonas Bendiksen, The Book of Veles

Fave Photographer:

• Lee Miller

Recent Discoveries:

• Better Food For Our Fighting Men, Matthieu Nicol
• Richard Misrach, Petrochemical America
• Rena Effendi, World Press Photo story

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Katrin's Picks:

Significant photobooks: 

• Robert Frank, Lines Of My Hand
• Valparaiso, Segio Larrain

Influential photographer:

• Roy DeCarava

Recent Discoveries:

• Her Ankor Wat Photo Festival alumni

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Ian's Picks:

Significant photobooks:

• Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light
• Brassai, Paris de Nuit
• Paul Strand, Tir A'Mhurain: The Outer Hebrides of Scotland

Influential photographer:

• Frank Meadow Sutcliffe

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Mike's picks:

• Significant photobooks:

1. Salgado, Other Americas,
2. Cristina García Rodero, España Oculta
3. Nikos Economopoulos, In The Balkans
4. Marc Riboud's China
5. W. Eugene Smith, Minimata
6. Philip Jones Griffiths, Vietnam Inc.
7. Danny Lyon, Conversations With The Dead
8. Robert Frank, The Americans

• Influential or favourite photographer: Marc Riboud

• Recent Discoveries:

1. Fabio Ponzio, East of Nowhere
2. Tomasz Tomaszewski, The World Is Where You Stop
3. Peter Van Agtmael, Look At The USA

Significant photobooks:

• Knave of Hearts, Danny Lyon
• Exiles, Joseph koudelka
• Rectangulo en la Mano, Sergio Larrain
• Poste Restante, Christer Stromholm
• Leros, Alex Majoli
• A Dialogue With Solitude, Dave Heath
• City Still, Ray Metzger
• A Solitude of Ravens, Masuhisa Fukase
• Fifty Hours, Eugene Richards
• Photographs, John Deakin
• Departures and Arrivals, Charlie Harbutt
• San Clemente, Raymond Depardon

Influential or favourite photographer(s):

• Josef Koudelka

Recent discoveries:

• Robert Bergman
• Yasuhiro Ishimoto

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Plus last week's guest, Ian Howorth, tackles the bonus questions.

Ian's picks:

• Significant Photobook(s): Sleeping By The Mississippi, Alec Soth / Pictures From Home, Larry Sultan
• Influential or favourite photographer or photographers: Stephen Gill / Alec Soth
• Recent discovery: Alejandro Chaskielberg, La Creciente

• Significant Photobook(s): American Night by Paul Graham
• An influential or favourite photographer or photographers: None chosen.
• Recent discovery: Jermaine Francis.

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And last week’s guest, Stephan Vanfleteren, returns to answer the bonus questions in fine style.

Fave photobook:

Ernest Cole: The True America

Influential photographers:

Inge Morath

Stephen Shore

Eveyln Hofer

Recent Discovery:

Ernest Cole

Agnieszka's picks:

Significant photobook:

Shooting Back, by Jim Hubbard

Favourite photographer:

Nan Goldin

Recent Discoveries:

Mark Steinmetz

Sadie Cook

Ben Brink

Robbie's Picks:

SIGNIFICANT PHOTOBOOK:

She Dances on Jackson

INFLUENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHER:

Boris Savelev

RECENT DISCOVERY:

Abdulhamid Kircher, Rotting From Within

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Kiana's Picks:

Influential photograper(s):

• Finbarr O'Reilly
• Andrea Bruce

Significant Photobook:

• Black Passport by Stanley Greene

Diana's picks:

• Influential photographers: Graciele Iturbide & Josef Koudelka
• Special photobooks:Chizu (The Map) & The Last Cosmology both by Kikuji Kawada, Liquid Land by Rena Effendi
• Recent discovery: Aaron Schuman, Slant

Abdul's picks:

1. Influential photographer: Nobuyoshi Araki.
2. Special photobook:Chiro Ai Shi, by Nobuyoshi Araki
3. Recent discovery:Bible, by Momo Okabe.

Inspirational photobook:

The Epilogue - Laia Abril

Some favourite photographers:

Keith Arnatt

Stephen Gill

Rhiannon Adam

Laia Abril

Important Photobook: The Heavens, Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti 

Favourite Photographer: Taryn Simon

Recommended photographers:

• Alena Grom @grom_alena
• Dina Oganova @dikarka__
• Nanna Heitmann @nannaheitmann

Recommended photobook:

• Us and Them, by Helmut Newton and Alice Springs

And last week's guest, Natalie Keyssar, takes on the bonus questions.

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NOTE: the rescheduled Photobook focus is Wednesday 6th September. Here's the details:

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Passcode: 347890

NB. Photobook Focus is back this month - Monday 24th July.

N.B. The book Bertrand was recommending is Kito by Masako Tomiya.

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N.B. Photobook Focus is at 19.00 BST on Tuesday 9th May with Anastasia Samoylova presenting Image Cities. Please join! Details in the newsletter.

P.S. Password for member-only page of my website, where you can access all the Photobook Focus recordings, is sipMun-cofda7-wakjih

• Claudia Mann - Website / Instagram
• Eliott Peacock - Website / Instagram
• Lauren Grabelle - Website / Instagram
• Yaozhi Liu - Website / Instagram
• Mark Drevdahl - Website
• Jess Rhodes - Website / Instagram
• Virginia Hines - Website / Instagram
• Dave Johnson - Website / Instagram
• Olga Jaramillo - Website / Instagram
• Lance Kriesch - Website / Instagram

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