Kominek bookshop

07/12/2022

The Colours of My Body new book by Lea Colombo, signed copies now in stock In Berlin!

30/11/2022

It's been a (really) long time coming, but the day is finally here! Beyond excited to announce a new 8-day traveling workshop in Japan with acclaimed Canadian photographer Greg Girard at the start of the blooming season!

Participants will first spend 3 full days of work reviews and presentations in Tokyo, also kicking off assignment work while there, then travel to Naha, Okinawa, for 3 more days of critiques and conversations, wrapping up assignment work, as well as editing toward the workshop's JRNL style final publication!

This is the dream workshop we've all been waiting for, following in the iconic footprints of Greg's amazing documentary work throughout the past four decades! Registrations open today, with early-bird rebates available to the first applicants until Wednesday, December 21st.

Don't miss the chance to take part in this once-in-a-lifetime photographic odyssey! Catch all the details, and apply to register for 1 of the only 12 open spots today at:

https://fotofilmic.com/workshop-greg-girard/

Photo © Greg Girard, 'Hotel Room View, Naha, 1982'. From the book 'JAL 1976-1988', Greg's latest monograph released last March with Kominek bookshop.

23/11/2022

last copies available

Greg Girard - "JAL 76 88" (2022) - new at https://josefchladek.com/book/greg_girard_-_jal_76_88

13/11/2022

Mark Steinmetz
South Trilogy last day to see our show at Room 35 - Hotel La Louisiane, 60 rue de Seine. 2-8pm

11/11/2022

South Trilogy by Mark Steinmetz, our room 35 at the Hotel La Louisiane is open today untill 8pm!
Also tomorrow Saturday and Sunday.
Thank you for coming to the opening yesterday!

10/11/2022

Mark Steinmetz opening and book signing today! Kominek Gallery
Mark Steinmetz, The South Trilogy

Opening and book signing

Hôtel La Louisiane
ROOM 35
60 rue de Seine 75006 Paris

10 novembre
19h-22h


Kominek Gallery is very pleased to present a rare selection of silver gelatin prints from Mark Steinmetz's main Œuvre: The South Trilogy. Steinmetz does not claim to be an avant-gardist or inventor. His images are part of a black and white documentary humanist tradition that he has inherited and wishes to preserve and perpetuate for the younger generation.

09/11/2022

Come to see us today at Polycopies!! @

08/11/2022

Tomorrow open from 11-21
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06/11/2022

Very happy and proud to be showing new works of Daisuke Yokota in Paris!! Come to see us at 40 rue de Richelieu, Paris 1
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10 — 13 Novembre, Le Molière, Paris 1
Curated by Emilia Genuardi
MATTHIEU BOUCHERIT Galerie Éric Mouchet 
MARC-ANTOINE GARNIER Galerie Bacqueville 
MANON LANJOUÈRE Galerie du Jour agnès b. 
FABIOLA MENCHELLI Marshall Gallery 
JAVIER HIRSCHFELD MORENO Open Doors Gallery 
LIZ NIELSEN Black Box Projects 
ALICE QUARESMA Sobering Galerie 
BAPTISTE RABICHON Galerie Binome 
CAROLINE RIVALAN Galerie Eva Vautier 
JONATHAN ROSIĆ Archiraar Gallery 
MATT SAUNDERS Analix Forever 
ISABELLE WENZEL 📸 Galerie Bart 
DAISUKE YOKOTA Kominek Gallery 
VINCENT FOURNIER & SEBASTIEN GAXIE Prix Swiss Life à 4 Mains 
LUCAS LEFFLER Residence PICTO LAB
Entrée libre, sur réservation.
👉🏻réservations : approche.paris
Free entry, upon reservation.
👉🏻 Reservations : approche.paris

04/11/2022

The Unknown by Rob Hornstra, today in the first copies arrived from the printer!!!


Will be available soon at:

.berlin .cultura .store .nl
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Book signing at polycopies paris 7pm Thursday 10th

03/11/2022

Polycopies! Book signings! At Kominek books table! Next week in Paris… join us also on Thursday at 7pm for the book launch of The Unknown by Rob Hornstra.

18/10/2022

Printing today!
Rob Hornstra The Unknown, Russia 2003
Spot varnish is on and looks rad!! Pre Order your copy today, still on presale offer!

13/10/2022

Photos from Kominek bookshop's post

11/10/2022

Rob Hornstra The Unknown, Russia 2003
Published by kominek books link in bio still on presale price, first 100 numbered copies sold out! Thank you for your support!!! Rob Hornstra’s early Russian Portraits are an instant classic…

05/10/2022

ROUGH & CUT by Abigail Varney
IN STOCK now!
Edition of 750 copies.
10x12.5 inches. 68 pages. 32 color and 14 b&w plates
printed on uncoated paper.
Open spine binding with iridescent foil stamped hard cover.
Trespasser 2022

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Approaching the center of Australia, in the middle of nowhere, lies Coober Pedy, an infamous mining town. Coober Pedy owes its existence to the discovery of opal seams in 1915, an iridescent gemstone formed from the water that once covered this desert scape. This precious opal has been mined in a series of boom and busts, almost into oblivion. Beyond the mullock heaps and away from the sun’s searing heat lies the underground dugouts inhabited by the last of the miners, still dreaming of one last opal-rich strike. The men who keep the idiosyncrasies of the town alive and well, offer an insight into the characters who call this place their forever home. Beauty is found in the remnants of this surreal magnetic landscape shaped by extremities of harshness, isolation and finite resources.
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Abigail Varney (b. 1986) is a portrait and documentary photographer based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Her work predominantly evolves from her curiosity and connection to Australia’s land, people and ecology; to explore untold stories that give light to the vivd and complex lives in Australia. Her work is more recently moving back closer to home, working with family archives and stories that centre her community and family.
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29/09/2022

START OF PRESALE! NEW BOOK: The Unknown - Russia 2003.⁠⁠
⁠by Rob Hornstra
* link in bio!
'The Unknown' presents previously unseen portraits taken in 2003 as a graduation project. Hornstra travelled through the Russian province of Chelyabinsk to do something about the first generation of Russians growing up after the collapse of communism. One month later he came home with 1,148 medium- and large-format negatives. The majority of these are portraits of people he met during his wanderings through the provincial capital and surrounding villages.⁠
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For his book 'Communism & Cowgirls' (2004), Hornstra mainly selected personal images that He took in people's homes. The chance encounters on the street remained untouched in the negative folders for years.⁠
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👉️ 'The Unknown' will be launched during Paris Photo 2022. If you pick up your copy at Kominek Books during Paris Photo, you can avoid shipping costs by using the discount code PICKUPPARIS at checkout.⁠
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20/09/2022

Mark Steinmetz giving a talk at Bildband Berlin! Now!berlin .for.cement

18/09/2022

Mark Steinmetz in Berlin
South Trilogy show is on until October 22 ✨🙏

13/09/2022

Mark Steinmetz South Trilogy. Tomorrow 6pm opening!! Come to see us, its on! Potsdamer Str. 77

11/09/2022

09/09/2022

Photos from ANDREAS MURKUDIS's post

05/09/2022

South Trilogy by Mark Steinmetz. Opening 14th September . Potsdamer Str 77 Berlin

04/09/2022

Walking distance - Olaf Unverzart preorder offer. Signed copy

20/06/2022

Modern Alchemy,
New book by Viviane Sassen, with Emanuele Coccia.
We will have signed copies ✨❤️

06/06/2022

Belleville by Thomas Boivin, super beautiful portraits from our friend in Paris!! check it out!! We have copies in Berlin .thomas

05/06/2022

Eastsiders by Gregory Bojorquez ✨ exited about this one coming in soon Berlin!

05/06/2022

Mark Steinmetz, sold out book Rivers & Towns. We have a few imperfect copies with tiny bump for 40€. Great book. You will be not disappointed ✨

03/06/2022

If You Want to Ride by Alec Soth great small book with a signed print. Few copies left at the Berlin shop published by .press

20/05/2022

YAGA by Agata Kalinowska ✨❤️🇵🇱 back in stock!!! Great book, buy it now. 200x265mm
Hardcover
176 pages
1st Edition
2021
English and Polish
YAGA is a photo book about the idea of ​​the emancipation of socially excluded women that the system finds inconvenient. It offers a subjective view of women and the inequality that exists even in the q***r world, where men still have more space to tell their stories than non-heteronormative women, who seem to lose sight of it.

Baba Yaga is a common archetype in Slavic countries: it is about an old woman who lives alone in the forest, surrounded by an animated natural world, in which the ghosts of her ancestors manifest as black cats and old evil crows. (...) Baba Yaga, as the embodiment of patriarchal fears, brings to the fore issues of status, resources and norms that must be obeyed. The cabin in the Baba Yaga forest is perched on chicken feet, which symbolizes exclusion, being an image of isolation, loneliness, misery and poverty, being also a symbol of opposition and the emanation of revenge. potential. (excerpt from an essay by Agata Kalinowska)

Yaga constitutes an archetype of contemporary witch, but YAGA is, above all, an emancipatory idea. Agata Kalinowska’s first publication is a book on freedom, on non-heteronormative standards of attractiveness, the shame of age, and the deconstruction of the male-female myths that make up the system. It is also a work on the relationship between beauty and female identity imposed by society. It is about the liberating power of a conscious choice to be excluded, to function outside the limits of the norms and the established cultural context, about the isolation that allows one to exist on their own terms.

Agata Kalinowska - photographer, writer and waitress affiliated with BWA Wrocław, Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych (Center for Creative Arts), and the Wrocław bar scene. His interests include the experiences of the precariat, which he documents on his blog relativelyhuman.blogspot.com. Agata’s work has been presented in Poland and abroad….YAGA, was released by BWA Wrocław in August 2021

13/05/2022

Remembering Enrique Metinides, who passed away a few days ago at the age of 88. For me one of the greatest press photographers, who with his images managed to convert brutality and tragedy of the daily life of Mexico City in to art. Not making it just more digestible but also making life more understandable... He sometimes was also called the "Mexican Weege" which I think does not pay enough tribute to this great artist and photographer. He was called also "el niño" given the fact that he started publishing his pictures in Mexican press at the age of 11.

I had the pleasure to visit Enrique in 2011 at his home in Mexico City.
We have stayed only 10 days but it was a very intense and exiting time ( where I managed to pinch my finger in to a driving car and catch the most intense food poisoning I ever experienced :-) But most of all we were able to film and interview Metinides on the streets of DF.
We also scanned a lot of material at his living room. Later in Berlin we printed SERIES, a book which I think is still one of the best I ever published under the imprint of Kominek Books. We produced the book with the help of the great Dutch book designer Sybren Kuiper. Thank you also once more to Veronique Ricardoni for putting us in touch with Enrique in the first place and to Carlos Alvarez Montero for the scanning at Enriques home! Also to my friend and brother Jacob Thein for the filming and support.

We also later exhibited the work in Berlin at Kominek Gallery. Despite the difficulties to get the attention of a larger public or any institutional support in Berlin, I think we made a great job in making Enriques work a little more know in Europe. Thank you also to Ann Kristin Kreisel for the great gallery and exhibition support during that period!

26/03/2022

JASPER by Matthew Genitempo

25/03/2022

We are very happy to invite you to the opening of

JASPER
Matthew Genitempo
25.03.2022 - 24.06.2022
by appointment only

Opening 25.03 at 6pm

*3G and mask, thank you*

25/03/2022

JAL by Greg Girard
First copies arrived toda!
Shipping now!
🙏🙏🙏

17/03/2022

The Road Beyond by Ruslan Hrushchak, heute in der Süddeutschen Zeitung

05/03/2022

Today in Spiegel Online: The Road Beyond by Ruslan Hrushchak 🙏🇺🇦 buy it now

04/03/2022

NEW BOOK! Pre Order and help Ukraine. The Road Beyond
By
RUSLAN HRUSHCHAK & IRYNA TSILYK

Ships end of March / April
From each book we donate 20% to Ukrainian
Emergency and Disaster Relief //
Von jedem verkauften Buch spenden wir 20% für die Not- und Katastrophenhilfe in der Ukraine.
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Photography by Ruslan Hrushchak
Poetry by Iryna Tsilyk
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Hardcover
225 x 230 mm
120 Pages + 20 Pages pergamon paper
Language: Ukrainian or English
the respective language version includes english or ukrainian handwritten poems on pergamon paper
Translated from Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky
Design and editing by Misha Kominek, Ruslan Hrushchak

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Beschreibung Deutsch

The Road Beyond ist ein Buch des Friedens, sagt der Hrushchak über das Werk. Der Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung des Bild- und Gedichtbandes wird vom krassen Gegensatz dazu begleitet. Die seit Jahren andauernden Unruhen im Osten der Ukraine sind in einen offenen Krieg übergegangen…..
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English Description

The Road Beyond is a book of peace, says photographer Ruslan Hrushchak about his work. The timing of the publication of his pictures and the poems of Iryna Tsilyk creates a stark irony: the unrest in eastern Ukraine, which has gone on for years, has turned into open war.

Hrushchak, born in Ukraine, has been living in Germany for 20 years. Tsilyk lives and works in Kyiv; by juxtaposing their outstanding art they have created a

12/02/2022

PICKPOCKET
DANIEL ARNOLD

IN STOCK, LAST COPIES!
228 pages,
textured softcover,

5 individually bound inserts,
offset width.
4 colour offset litho, 3 spot colours
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screen printed mylar clear outer jacket
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578 images
total
Dimensions: 302mm x 195mm
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Designed by
David Rudnick
Emiel Penninckx
Maharani Yasmine Putri
and Mozes Mosuse in Terrain
Elara Press, first edition
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The first monograph of the work of New York-based photographer Daniel Arnold. Pickpocket is comprised of a "Prestige Edit" titled The Woods, and five additional "Alleyways" – GALA, Cell Out, F**k Ups, 47th Street, and ElseWhere. With liner notes by Daniel Arnold and an afterword by Josh Safdie.

12/02/2022

100 Bilder by Daisuke Yokota | Yoshi Kametani | Hiroshi Takizawa

New Exhibition at Kominek Gallery is on! Please visit us from next week on appointment!
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All works shot during Kominek Books residency 2016 in Berlin.
We show all the 100 c prints as they were edited for the book.
All prints are available 24x30cm
C-print on Fuji paper.
Edition of 1+1AP

Please get in touch for the prices and availability.k

11/02/2022

A few copies left, ships from Berlin…in March.
Curran Hatleberg
River's Dream - signed copy
PRE ORDER
SHIPPING mid MARCH
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Print Run Limited to 1000 Signed and Stamped Copies
Casebound with dust jacket
Signed and stamped by the artist
152 pages, 65 color plates
30 x 34 cm
2.1 kilos
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River's Dream is the latest monograph by Curran Hatleberg, and a complete realization of the series exhibited at the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
Hatleberg is known for traveling America, guided by intuition, to create scenes of American life and landscape. Working collaboratively with the people he meets, he recounts intimate stories of family and community. Here, in the follow-up to his first monograph Lost Coast (TBW Books, 2016), Hatleberg centers his narrative on the dog days of summer. Sweltering heat, dripping humidity, lush vegetation, and screaming insects–River's Dream is a pulsing and episodic hallucination of life lived outdoors. In these sixty-five photographs, we move through swamps and groves, front yards and junkyards, encountering moments of haunting mystery and beautiful impermanence. Heightened by formal repetition, echo, and refrain, everyday scenes take on surreal, allegorical qualities. In the end, Hatleberg leaves us with the impression of memory, where the past is never gone, but appears and reappears endlessly, as in the flickering of a dream.
This book includes new texts by Natasaha Trethewey and Joy Williams commissioned for the publication

30/01/2022

Today in The Sunday Times….JAL by Greg Girard published by Kominek Books. Long in the making will be an amazing publication masterly printed by in Denmark. Shipping should start in March for European pre-orders go to our web shop >link in bio✨✨✨for Japan pre orders go to web shop and for American pre-orders go to