Joscha Bruckert and Andreas Till

Self-published photography books are the focus of much attention just now and it's a very encouraging trend, given that they are an excellent "laboratory" for redefining the established relationships that can exist between images, a most crucial aspect of the form. A recent collaborative project by Joscha Bruckert and Andreas Till entitled A Man Sat Alone in His Room is particularly satisfying in this regard, playing elements of collage against more conventional, if still enigmatic, structures.

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Martin Becka

As the world is now it seems that the future we once imagined is already past. Just ask Martin Becka. He has photographed Dubai as though it was a ruin, the last monumental trace of some vanished civilisation. It is a kind of photographic archaeology, hoping for a glimpse of the way history will render our lost present. This impossible city becomes something outside of time, using the studied techniques of a 19th Century master to expose the grotesque ambition at the heart of late capitalism and what Dubai has come to represent. All empires have an inconvenient way of ending, sooner or later, this work stands as an eloquent requiem (and yes, indictment) for an increasingly failed age.

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Masao Yamamoto - The Space Between Flowers

This short documentary gives a nice insight into how Yamamoto views his own work, with all its subtle humour and poignancy. His pictures are deeply felt and powerful objects, even in reproduction.