Peperoni Books / Program
Peperoni Books-titles arranged in descending order according to their publication date
Denis Brudna :: Am Boden
He does not really like New Year`s Eve, says Denis Brudna. Not the programmed party mood, not the fireworks, after which you can set the clock and, actually, not what is left from all the drinking, popping, being merry. The garbage. Actually. » more
Thomas Hoepker :: Champ
Ali was the greatest. A great sportsman, a controversial thinker, who, with his appearances in and outside the ring enthralled people but also offended many. A polarizing figure, unforgotten until now. Thomas Hoepker had the opportunity to spend time with Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali and take photographs » more
Roger Eberhard / James Nizam :: Tumulus
Dark green and brown tones prevail in these images. Untouched undergrowth, interspersed with moss and ferns. Rainforest. And yet people have left traces. Crumbling into decay, wood huts are to be seen in some pictures, more or less shaped piles of planks, beams and wedges on others. Mysterious remains of bygone bustle already overlaid and penetrated by the returning nature, photographed rich in detail but inexplicable. An idea of eternity is blowing through these images.» more
Irina Ruppert :: Rodina
The desire for security and belonging is one of the dominant feelings. Everyone is longing for home, but when childhood is gone, one finds it only and mostly unexpectedly in the memory, it does not matter if one stayed or left. Irina Ruppert came from Kazakhstan to Germany with her family at the age of seven. Now, decades later, she is drawn towards the east. Instinctively, over and over again. Because of the memory – or the idea of it. » more
Marc Theis :: Lost in Time
Not another industrial ruin, one is tempted to say. But this time the situation is different, because in the images, which Marc Theis has taken on the abandoned Continental-site in Hannover, the different time levels interlace to a peculiar dialogue of generations. » more
Stefan Canham/Nguyen Phuong-Dan :: Die Deutschen Vietnamesen
Germany and Vietnam are connected by a special history. Both countries were separated for a long time, both are reunited again nowadays. In different epochs after World War II, there have been migration shifts from Vietnam to Germany for various reasons. In an artistic-photographic manner, the book deals with the present life situation and everyday life of those Viet Kieu – the foreign Vietnamese. They all brought a piece of Germany to Vietnam and preserve the long-time relationship to Germany on the most different levels. » more
Michael Wolf :: Tokyo Compression Revisited
With "Tokyo Compression" Michael Wolf struck a nerve. His portraits of people who are on their way in the Tokyo subway, constrained between glass, steel and fellow travelers, have won many awards and were shown in exhibitions around the globe. The first edition of this book was sold out after a few weeks. And the topic kept haunting Michael Wolf as well. He returned to Tokyo in order to immerse in the subsurface insanity once again and this time even deeper. Now with "Tokyo Compression Revisited" the second, completely revised edition of the classic is published, with many so far unreleased images and an entirely new "hidden track" at the end of the book. » more
Michael Wolf :: Real Fake Art
Strange, this is how these pictures appear at first sight. In front of typical Chinese urban backdrops young Chinese men and women present oil paintings by American and European artists from different epochs. Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, even photographs by Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, Bernd and Hilla Becher or August Sander can be found among the works. What stands behind all this?» more
Patrik Budenz :: Quæstiones medico-legales
Every evening TV-shows like CSI, Crossing Jordan or Quincy show legal medical experts at work and the field of forensics also have long since entered the German crime series. But the medical image of forensic medicine has only little in common with reality. In fact, only few people have realistic ideas of how things work in the autopsy hall or the forensic laboratories and what else belongs to the legal medical’s everyday life. The photographer Patrik Budenz wanted to find out more. On the basis of the medial image, he accompanied the forensic medicals during their work at the site of crime, in the section room, in the laboratory and at their desk. » more
Amin El Dib :: Autonome Bilder
Amin El Dib makes art with photography and you have to take this literally: For him, the medium is nothing more and nothing less than the material, whose exploration defines his oeuvre. What unites him with the artists of all time periods and media, is the radicalness of his approach; from basic considerations about the materiality and mediality of photography he defines the limits, which he exceeds – especially in order to know where they are.
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Michael Wolf :: Tokyo Compression
Michael Wolf's latest pictures have also been generated in a big city: Tokyo. But this time Tokyo’s architecture is not the topic. Michael Wolf’s “Tokyo Compression” focuses on the craziness of Tokyo’s underground system. For his shots he has chosen a location which relentlessly provides his camera with new pictures minute per minute.» more
Julia Kissina :: When Shadows Cast People
Julia Kissina’s photographs are populated with figures, which scare us. Bodies are deforming, children develop additional arms and legs and her “freaks” seem to come from another galaxy, even when they look like people.» more
Hans W. Mende :: Grenzarchiv West-Berlin 1978/1979
During his more than 160 km long border survey Hans W. Mende has captured the Wall and border facilities, but primarily the development of the urban space close to the frontier - unagitated, large-sized and with the precise eye for coherences and details, which is so typical of him.
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Michael Wolf :: Hong Kong Inside Outsid
For more than 14 years German photographer Michael Wolf has been living in Hong Kong. Focused on the specific visual elements he has depicted high density living in one of the world’s most crowded cities like nobody has before. HONG KONG INSIDE OUTSIDE combines two major series of his work titled Architecture of Density and 100 x 100.
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Jo Röttger :: Wilson's World
Jo Röttger has accompanied Robert Wilson, the great man of theater, on his unresting global flight. In the Watermill Center, Long Island, in his apartment in New York, during preparations and rehearsals of different productions in Warsaw, Paris, Berlin and Taiwan, during the encounter with dervish dancers in Istanbul and Athens, during the opening of the VOOM exhibition in New York. Jo Röttger has kept distance and therefore has come that close.
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Isadora Tast :: Mother India
In her insistent series “Mother India” Isadora Tast shows sensitive portraits from very diverse people, who came to India during their search for a homeland and for meaning and just stayed there. Short vitas and extracts from conversations, which Isadora Tast held with the emigrants complement this photo series.
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Oliver Möst :: Clackastigmat 6.0
Oliver Möst is a spectacles wearer. He is shortsighted, without cut glasses in front of his eyes he sees everything blurred – and that badly. Primarily because of that, he is bothered by the question, in how far the things he sees equal the things others see, with or without spectacles. Because the world does not provide pictures, we create them ourselves.
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Rufina Wu, Stefan Canham :: Portraits from above - Hong Kong's informal rooftop communities
Self-built, informal settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings are an integral part of Hong Kong’s urban landscape. The rise of rooftop communities is closely linked to the migration history from Chinese Mainland to Hong Kong. With each of China’s tumultuous political movements in the 20th century, like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, there was a corresponding wave of Mainland Chinese migrating to Hong Kong.
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Rufina Wu, Stefan Canham :: Portraits from above - Hong Kong's informal rooftop communities :: 2nd Edition
Self-built, informal settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings are an integral part of Hong Kong’s urban landscape. The rise of rooftop communities is closely linked to the migration history from Chinese Mainland to Hong Kong. With each of China’s tumultuous political movements in the 20th century, like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, there was a corresponding wave of Mainland Chinese migrating to Hong Kong.
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Henrik Spohler :: Global Soul
It is not possible to locate where exactly the soul is at home. Yet the
soul stands not only for an identity, but also for a principle that has
gained general validity far and wide. In his new publication Global Soul,
the Hamburg photographer Henrik Spohler (*1965) presents unusual,
as yet unseen interior views of industrial production.» more
H.J. Hack :: Climate Refugee Guide Berlin
This “Guide for Climate Refugees“ is perhaps your first encounter with a topic which so far has hardly entered public consciousness. The artist Hermann Josef Hack sees himself as a “sensor“ for social and political challenges. For years he has been drawing the public‘s attention to serious and pressing social problems with his “happenings“ on topics such as unemployment, poverty or climate change.
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Julia Baier :: Sento
A public bath house in Japan is called “Sento” and is usually a hidden, intimate place. Japanese people don’t go there to swim but to wash and to clean themselves and to relax. Aside from this personal aspect bathing in Japan has a highly spiritual meaning.
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Andreas Müller-Pohle :: The Danube River Project
Berlin photographer and media artist Andreas Müller-Pohle has pro-duced an extraordinary portrait of this mighty river in his “Danube River Project”. The photographs, taken from both below and above the river‘s surface, provide a “intriguing fresh vision” (Ivaylo Ditchev) of the Danube with its unique urban panoramas and natural phenomena, its bridges, harbors and factories.» more
Iris Czak, Marei Wenzel :: Schauplatz : Berlin
Iris Czak and Marei Wenzel are location scouts. On their rambles through Berlin they have photographed thousands of places and rooms, which merge to an irritating image of the city in this comprehensive book. An essay by Roger Boyes accompanies this photo series.
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Wanderer, Göx :: Die Rote Burg
In this book Andreas Göx and Hannes Wanderer provide the big portrait of the broadcasting area of the DDR, which has been lying nearly unused in a big sleep for many years. The future is uncertain. With over 200 colored illustrations and a detailed text by Bettina Baltschev.
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Maki Shimizu :: Makis Haustierbuch
Maki Shimizu found „The Haustierbuch“, a book from 1955, rejected at the attic of a youth hostel in the Southern Germany. At that time she could not understand the texts. Nevertheless she enjoyed the book, so much that she made drawings and prints of all of the old photographs from the book and finally she also typewrote the whole text word by word.
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Stefan Canham :: Bauwagen | Mobile Squatters
In Germany over 10.000 people permanently live in “Bauwagen” (contractor’s sheds). The photographer Stefan Canham traced this phenomenon and shows sensible indoor and outdoor photographs from a nearly unknown environment. A detailed essay by Goesta Diercks deepens the discussion.
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Wanderer, Göx :: Time Out | Leere Läden in Berlin
The photographers Hannes Wanderer and Andreas Göx have photographed more than 3.000 empty shops in Berlin. Everyone knows them, scarcely anyone has seen them.
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