Photobook by galician photographer Ruth Montiel Arias who reflects on animal domination through hunting, in a dialogue between the real and the symbolic.

Bestiae is a visual essay that analyzes male domination over the animal, and how it is related through gender, war and disease.

From This Book is True we present La casa que sangra from the Mexican photographer Yael Martínez, from the State of Guerrero, and that was a response to the murder of one of his brothers-in-law and the disappearance of two others, all by the narco, to understand and overcome the trauma of this violence, using for it classic and also prepared documentary photography, responding to dreams and personal visions.

Shorlisted by Aperture/Paris Photo Book of the Year Award. 2020 Magnum Photos Nominee. Granted by the Magnum Foundation, by the Fonca of México, winner of a WorldPressPhoto, finalist in many documentary photography awards, we are fortunate to distribute his book from This Book is True.

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Desde This Book is True presentamos La casa que sangra del fotógrafo mexicano Yael Martínez, del Estado de Guerrero, y que fue una respuesta del fotógrafo al asesinato de uno su cuñados y la desaparición de otros dos, todos por el narco, para comprender y superar el trauma de esta violencia, usando para ello fotografía documental clásica y también preparada, respondiendo a sueños y visiones personales.

Finalista en Aperture/París Photo al Premio al libro del año. Nominado 2020 para Magnum Photos. Becado por la fundación Magnum, por el Fonca de México, ganador de un WorldPressPhoto, finalista en muchos premios de fotografía documental, tenemos la suerte de distribuir su libro desde This Book is True.

In 1964 a Zambian science teacher named Edwuard Makuka  decided to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. His plan was to use an alluminium rocket to put a woman, two cats and a missionary into Space. First the moon, then Mars, using a catapult system. He founded the Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Astronomical Research to start training his Afronauts in his headquarters located only 20 miles from Lusaka.

This self published book was finalist of Paris Photo Aperture First book award in 2012, was finalist of the Deutsche Börse award and obtained the Infinity award from the ICP in NYC in the same year. The #18 in the list of The Greatest Photobooks of All Time for Source Magazine.

With Chaplin’s film Modern Times as a starting point for the book’s narrative structure, De Middel reflects on the peculiar understanding of masculinity in India, through the relationships between man, machine and work.