Join us at Photo London

We are delighted to be back at Photo London this Spring (14-17 May)!

The theme of the GOST Books booth will be the relationship between photography, time and place. For example, Craig Easton revisits Barnhill, the remote Scottish Island where George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four—presenting his own lyrical vision of this time and place. Melonie Bennett, in capturing the everyday life of her vibrant rural Maine family and community documents a time and place with deep personal significance and insight. Constance Jaeggi explores the Mexican equestrian sport of Escaramuza in her project, showing the resurgence in the US in the present day but drawing upon traditions of the past. Marina Sersale’s photographs take us across Rome as she shoots her life surroundings and visits nearby places capturing quiet every day moments. Meanwhile, in 2018,  the deadliest wildfires ever recorded took place just 30 km from the centre of Athens in Greece. Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire and The Fumes of Mars combines her photographs with personal testimonies from other survivors, timelines, maps and reports.  Elsewhere, for many Europeans and North Americans, cocaine is a party drug. For many Latin Americans, it’s a source of bloodshed, violence, corruption, and death. Mads Nissen’s Sangre Familia is the most significant exploration through photo journalism of the cocaine industry to be published to date.Robin Bernstein’s book offers a visual reassessment of a key historical and geographic region in South Africa from his contemporary standpoint.

Closer to home, in the UK, Brendan Barry’s still lives of wildflowers gathered within walking distance of his home, aim to freeze and capture a particular time and place with his unique method of a giant camera obscura built in his shed.  In 2017 photographer Merlin Daleman embarked on a journey through the economic North of the UK which unfolds in his book. Mark Power's book presents nearly 30 years of photographs taken where things are fashioned or made across the globe. He presents them without context nor chronology, and untethered from this, they take on their own new visual poetry. 

Our signings will include: 

Friday 15 May 

3pm Liminal Space by Marina Sersale

4pm Flowers for Bea by Brendan Barry

5pm Mutiny by Merlin Daleman

Saturday 16 May 

1pm Las Pelilargas by Irina Werning

2pm An Extremely Un-Get-Atable Place by Craig Easton 

3pm The Fumes of Mars by Katerina Angelopoulou 

4pm BODY COPY by Mitchell Moreno 

Sunday 17 May

1pm Mapakalata by Robin Bernstein 

2pm Death and Other Belongings by Will Green 

Around town and at the fair:

Many GOST photographers have events across London to coincide with the fair. Join us to hear more about those behind the books and to see more of their work in person.

Join us on Thursday 14 May from 5-8pm at PLASTER Magazine's London HQ where Robin Bernstein will share his experiences in creating his first photo book: MAPALAKATA. Admission free.

Also 14 May at 7pm at The Hellenic Centre in London where Katerina Angelopoulou will be in conversation about her book with Stuart Smith, Publisher, GOST Books. A Q&A will follow the presentation. Ticketed via the venue.

Diana Mater’s work will also be on show at Photo London on the booth of Purdy Hicks on Stand A-08.