Join us on Thursday 23 October in Berlin to celebrate the launch of Hoda Afshar's The Fold.

Through critical reappropriation, Afshar reclaims a colonial photographic legacy fixated on the veiled woman. THE FOLD is a critical visual and psychological investigation into the enduring legacy of Orientalist and colonialist photographic practices, and the ways in which these gazes continue to shape how bodies—particularly veiled Islamic bodies—are seen, archived, and consumed.

Hoda Afshar (b. 1983, Iran) is an Iranian-born, Melbourne-based artist working across photography, moving image, and installation. She explores themes of violence, marginality, displacement, and representation. In 2023, she held a major institutional survey, A Curve is a Broken Line, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which was accompanied by a publication. Her work has been widely exhibited including in: Show it, Grow it!, Museum Folkwang, Essen (2024), NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2023), Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah (2023); STILL ALIVE, Aichi Triennial, Nagoya (2022); and Between the Sun and the Moon, Lahore Biennale, Lahore (2020). Her first monograph, Speak the Wind, was published in 2021 by MACK.

Thursday 23 October 6–9pm
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstrasse 33
10405 Berlin

Join us Thursday for the launch of Maximilian Virgili new book UMARÈL.

October 09th 2025
06-09pm
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstrasse 33
10405 Berlin

Thursday 2nd of October
18:00-21:00
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33.
10405 Berlin

Lucas Foglia’s newest book and exhibition, Constant Bloom, traces the longest butterfly migration ever discovered. Each year, Painted Lady butterflies travel between Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in search of blooming flowers. They have followed this route for millions of years.

Now, with climate change altering when and where wildflowers bloom, Painted Ladies rely on flowers in our parks, farms, and gardens. As Foglia followed the butterflies from Kenya to Norway, he also met people experiencing unseasonal droughts, floods, or freezes. Many were refugees traveling to Europe along the same route as the Painted Ladies.

In Constant Bloom, the longest butterfly migration becomes a metaphor for connection across international borders. 

This beautifully printed book from Nazraeli Press gracefully explores the world and the urgent global issues of our time. With all text in English, French, and Arabic, Constant Bloom includes essays by curator Willemijn van der Zwaan and the scientists of the Worldwide Painted Lady Migration Project.

Join us next week Saturday for a signing with Mike Brodie

Saturday the 13th of September 13:00
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33.
10405 Berlin

Mike Brodie’s first series, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity touched down more than a decade ago, depicting his fellow rail-riders and drifters in a rebellious and wildfire pursuit of adventure and freedom. “Brodie leapt into the life of picture-making as if he was the first to do it,” Danny Lyon wrote about the book in Aperture. Next came Tones of Dirt and Bone, a collection of earlier SX-70 pictures Brodie made when photography first led him to hopping freights, when he was known as “The Polaroid Kidd.” And then Brodie seemed to disappear from the art world as suddenly and mysteriously as he’d first appeared. Maybe his vanishing was another myth. Maybe it was just a necessary retreat. “I was divorcing myself from all that,” he says. “I was growing up. I was pursuing this other life.”In Nashville he became a diesel mechanic. Fell in love. Moved across the country again. Got married. Bought land on the long dusty Winnemucca road Johnny Cash sang about. Started his own business. Built a house. Put down roots. And when that life exploded, the open road called again. Throughout almost all of it, his cameras were with him, and at last those pictures are coming to light.

If A Period of Juvenile Prosperity was a cinematic dream, Failing is the awakening and the reckoning, a raw, wounded, and searingly honest photographic diary of a decade marked by love and heartbreak, loss and grief — biblical in its scope, and in its search for truth and meaning. Here is the flip side of the American dream, seen from within; here is bearing close witness to the brutal chaos of addiction and death; here are front-seat encounters with hitchhikers and kindred wanderers on society’s edges, sustained by the ragtag community of the road. Failing often exists in darkness but is tuned to grace. Brodie’s eye stays forever open to the strange and fleeting beauty that exists in forgotten places — the open country and the lost horizons that sweep past dust-spattered windows in a spectral blur.

CHARRED CELL (2025) is formed from a period of visual research into the
clinical estrangement of domestic environments- the work eludes to a cynicism that
coexists alongside enlightenment, stuck between an escapist alternative of the
present, and the tension that fluctuates between trauma and awakening.
Suggestions of manipulation, both physical and emotional, arise alongside
recurring photographic motifs of optimism- a warm radiation of presence, yet not
without hostility. Visually deconstructed, are banal yet recognisable elements of
authority, control, and a permeating coldness that trickles slowly to the surface,
allowing mediation from actual horror, a safety blanket from an anxiety that
appears as a constant.

How is emotion initially processed through images? Is a constant sense of trauma
always present when searched for? What is visible to some that may be otherwise
concealed themselves to others- how does this visceral response to fear both
protect, and endanger? The materials and functions within Hutchinson’s
images purposely obscure their intentions, allowing reflection in the state that
exists between the aestheticisation of a fiction, and a true understanding of the
reality an image can depict.

Published May 2025 by BOOT Mag

Friday 29th of August
6-9 PM Bildband Berlin 
Immanuelkirchstraße 33.
10405 Berlin

Nearest Truth Editions will be launching on Friday the 1st of November a series of new photobooks from Xiaofu Wang, Qiu Yangzi, Jack Garland, Yasmin Masri, Adam Titchener, Brad Feuerhelm, Jesse Jackson IV and Cornelia Pierce.

Brad Feuerhelm and three of the photographers, Qiu Yangzi, Jack Garland and Xiaofu Wang will be present at the launch and will give short presentations about their books. 
 

Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr 33
Friday 1st Nov 2024
18:00 – 21:00
*artist talk at 19:00

Please join us for the launch of Passing By Beijing by Cai Dongdong

Cai Dongdong is a Chinese artist, born in 1978 in Tianshui, China. This book comprises colour pictures over the last 20 years, documenting his move from northwest China to Beijing.

The artist talk will be hosted by Haishu Chen from Shushushushu Books.

Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr 33
Thursday 8th Aug 2024
18:00 – 21:00
*artist talk at 19:00

Please join us for the launch of Rotting from Within published by Loose Joints, together with a joint signing and talk with Sahiba Çimen and her book Hafiz from Red Hook Editions.

Rotting from Within refers to a feeling described by Abdulhamid Kircher upon the unearthing of his father’s history: the discovery of the generational trauma within the patriarchs of his family and the subsequent task of uncovering the artist’s self amongst the things passed down. Beginning at the age of seventeen with the reacquaintance of his estranged father, recently released from incarceration for selling drugs and attempted murder, Kircher’s self-led journey into photography coincided with a reflection on his past. Born in Berlin and fleeing to the USA at a young age, the camera provided an entry point for intimacy and familiarity with his father and his Turkish culture and heritage while fostering a deep relationship with the photographic medium and its possibilities.

Sabiha Cimen spent three years photographing Girl Quran Schools in five cities in Turkey, a subject that she knows very well since she attended the same schools when she was a teenager with her twin sister. After becoming a photographer, she returned to those schools to work on her project that has now become the subject for her first book, Hafiz.

Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr 33
Friday 19th July 2024
18:00 – 21:00
*artist talk at 19:00