Reading Notes

A look back at how Joel Sternfeld spent more than a year walking and photographing New York’s abandoned elevated railway, creating in Walking the High Line a record of an industrial ruin’s transformation into an urban park.

Through photographs, writing, and cyanotype prints, The One-Eared Wolf explores the return of wolves to France’s Aubrac region. Rather than taking sides, it observes the tangled relationship among wildlife, livestock farmers, and political debate.

Through photographs, medical records, and manuscripts, Louis Quail tells the story of his elder brother Justin, who lives with schizophrenia, preserving beyond the label of illness his passion for birdwatching, the hardships of daily life, and a family’s enduring care.

Reading Jeddah Diary alongside Hafiz reveals the competing truths, concealments, cultural distance, and traces of arrogance and prejudice that can shape an outsider’s photographs of Saudi women.

Reading Black Diamonds, a study of post-industrial Appalachian towns, raises questions about community and race—and about whether a photographic project loses its inner honesty when its narrative shifts with the political moment.

Through a design that echoes the Qur’an, this book enters Turkish photographer Sabiha Çimen’s experience of a girls’ Qur’an school, offering an insider’s view of religious study, friendship, and adolescence.

An introduction to Lorenzo Castore’s long-term project, inspired by Koudelka, and to the way self-contained photographs combine in Lack & Longing to shape a narrative of time and desire.

Over two decades of photographing her family, Emma Hardy confronts growth, illness, and loss, reflecting on the trust involved when those closest to us allow a camera into their lives.

Reading the second volume of Jacob Aue Sobol’s Greenland trilogy, we follow the photographer into a remote settlement and his life with Sabine, encountering the intimacy of human bonds and the enduring weight of separation.

Through the photobook Gandras: Land of the White Stork, we enter an oddly shaped corridor along the Lithuanian–Belarusian border and see how a national boundary has shaped the identities and daily lives of its few remaining residents.