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In Via PanAm, Kadir van Lohuizen investigates the roots of migration in the Americas. By seeking answers to questions such as 'Why do people migrate? Where to and for what reasons? What is the fate of the different indigenous populations in the Americas?' Van Lohuizen taps into a phenomenon which is as old as humanity but is increasingly portrayed as a new threat to the Western world.

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What do we see around us when we go to get money out of a cash machine in Boskoop? Or when we fetch a supermarket trolley in a car park in Breukelen? What do we see when we meet up with friends in a cafe in Steenwijk, or eat chips with our kids in a snack bar in Enkhuizen?

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In the 21st century, globalisation has opened up the world for better and for worse. While we all welcome the virtues and advantages of an open society, Poppy tells a different story: of a world facing destabilisation as a result of multiple threats.

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The geopolitical conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region is a forgotten one. Even as the war raged between 1991-1994, it received little attention from the West but it remains a reality for up to hundreds of thousands Azerbaijani and Armenian refugees. OFFSIDE tells the story from the perspective of two football teams: FK Qarabag Agdam and FK Karabakh Stepanakert.

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Home is a photographic document of the Staatsliedenbuurt in Utrecht, a typical Dutch post-warneighbourhood. Today, the remaining urban districts from this post-war reconstruction period no longer reflect the fabric of society. Municipal officials describe the neighbourhood in terms of condemned housing, social problems, crime and nuisance. For its residents, however, the Staatsliedenbuurt is something else entirely: Home.

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Thuis is een fotografisch document van de Utrechtse Staatsliedenbuurt, een typisch Nederlandse wederopbouwbuurt. De idealen van toen bleken achterhaald; 20 jaar geleden besloot de gemeente tot herstructurering. Het beeld van de buurt bestaat uit afgeschreven woningen, sociale problemen, criminaliteit en overlast. Maar dat strookt niet met het gevoel van bewoners. Thuis schetst de ideologische planologie en toont hoe mensen zich hun omgeving toe-eigenen: de Staatsliedenbuurt als voorbeeld van oude Nederlandse stadsbuurten.

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While the six towers of the Penitentiary Institution Over-Amstel (known locally as the Bijlmerbajes) form an important landmark in the urban landscape of Amsterdam, the interior of these buildings are unknown territory for most people.

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The book was initially self-published by the artist in 2008 in a small edition and was widely acclaimed. It won the Silver Medal Book Award at the Fotofestival di Roma and was recently acquired by the MoMA collection in New York.

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Mariken Wessels' second artist book is titled Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off. The photographs in this book are sourced from an existing person, a middle-aged woman wringing with her self-image in an endless stream of manipulated photographs of herself, making them into a true cabinet of curiosities. The authentic arrangement of the discovered material, with its strange mixture of old and new photographs, film material and collages is strikingly deceptive.

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Photographer Dana Lixenberg stayed in Shishmaref for several weeks during the winter and summer of 2007. She explored the intricate relationship between the inhabitants and the rough, bleak and beautiful landscape that surrounds them. Using her 4x5-inch field camera makes the act of photographing more formal than hand-held photography, resulting in an intimate collaboration between the photographer and her subjects and in carefully composed still-lives. 

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WATW is short for We Are The World. The song (by Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson) was originally written for a 1985 campaign against famine in Ethiopia, later hijacked for a multitude of other purposes, focusing on issues of solidarity as well as mutual responsibility. In the framework of this 2009/2010 travelling exhibition, a collaboration between the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, CN) and Paradox (Edam, NL), it is referring to the latter notion: common responsibility for the highly complex, culturally, economically and socially interrelated world we are living in.

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The photography project MADE IN CHINA is the result of the time Johan Nieuwenhuize spent as an artist in residence at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing. He was situated in the area of Caochangdi, where he often worked in the homes of migrant workers from the rural areas of China. 
The project is a dynamic combination of the three genres landscape, still life and portrait. Nieuwenhuize combines abstract pictures of the sky with more documentary still lifes and self portraits.

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The backbreaking work on this 415 kilometre rail- way began in June 1942 and ended 16 months later in October 1943. Some 178,000 Asian forced labourers and 61,811 prisoners of war worked on this project. More than 99,000 people died from exhaustion, disease or malnutrition. It is now 65 years since the Japanese surrendered and this hell ended. Much of the original railway has disap- peared or changed over the past decades and any remaining traces will soon cease to exist, as will the people who were forced to work on it. A piece of history threatens to be lost. This publication makes the railway visible, again.

Raoul Kramers work focuses on the consequences conflicts. He presents his long-term projects in the form of books, multimedia presentations and exhibitions. Raoul got a Jury Special Mention at the Dutch Doc Award 2011, for his book Lost Track

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