Viory

@viory.bsky.social

photographer - writer - photobook nerd - journalism and democracy lover

Weekend Reading • Adam – Theo Zeal (l'Artiere) • Cypsela – Salvi Danés (Anómalas) • Blinded by your Grace – Sarah Chaplin (Loose Joints) • Sliver – Boris Snauwaert (Fw:Books) • Time Isn't Holding Us – Joakim Möller (Setanta) • All of Them Witches – Bego Antón (Overlapse)

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•République–BérangèreFromont•Invisible Economy of the Gaze through the Fingers–SergeyVutuc•Pâle–GabrielleDuplantier•Find me near the chestnut trees–JuleWild•Some things go without saying–RomainBagnard•Where do we go when the final wave hits–ArkoDatto•Kodo–MartinBogren•Nightswimming–JacopoPapucci ALT

Books on the table:

• République – Bérangère Fromont (Chose Commune ’26)
• Invisible Economy of the Gaze through the Fingers – Sergey Vutuc (Club del Prado ’26)
• Pâle - Gabrielle Duplantier (Origini ’26)
• Find me near the chestnut trees – Jule Wild (Eigensinn ’26)
• Some things go without saying – Romain Bagnard (self-published ’26)
• Where do we go when the final wave hits - Arko Datto (Dienacht ’26)
• Kodo – Martin Bogren (Lamaindonne ’26)
• Nightswimming – Jacopo Papucci (self-published ’26)

• El Peso de las alas, Libro I Libro II – Lander Rezola • The Agency: An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture – John Gossage • The Agency: Mango Season – Jenia Fridlyand • Wet Ground – Aria Shahrokhshahi • The Agency: A Commonplace Book – Raymond Meeks • How do you know someone loves you? – Kristof Huf

Holiday Reading 
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Goodies for August! Reading:

• El Peso de las alas, Libro I Libro II – Lander Rezola 
(Grani Edizione ’26)
• The Agency: An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture – John Gossage
(Steidl and The Agency '26)
• The Agency: Mango Season – Jenia Fridlyand
(Steidl and The Agency '26)
• Wet Ground – Aria Shahrokhshahi
(Loose Joints ’26)
• The Agency: A Commonplace Book – Raymond Meeks
(Steidl and The Agency '26)
• How do you know someone loves you? – Kristof Huf (self-published ’26)

Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah was killed Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp. His brother Mohammed, also an Al Jazeera correspondent, was killed in April. Today, at least 259 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israel since October 7, 2023.

Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah killed in Israeli attack in Gaza

Al Jazeera condemned Israel's 'deliberate' targeting of Wishah, the network's 12th media worker killed during Gaza war.

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Weekend Reading + memorial tribute • Diaries – Josef Koudelka (StanleyBarker) • Water Over Thunder – Larry Sultan (Mack) • A Visit with Magritte – Duane Michals (Steidl) • Index – Christopher Anderson (StanleyBarker) • Snow – Sohrab Hura (Mack) • Atlas of Echoes – Sarah van Rij (Note Note Éditions)

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Central European Weekend Reading • LAMF: Three Days in Berlin, 1987 – John Gossage '26 • Wool, Wind and Waves: Faroe Islands – Eva Chupíková '26 • Catalogue Epitome – Vic Bakin '26 • Everybody Dance! – Masha Sviatahor '25 • Documentation of the War – Vladyslav Krasnoshchok '26 + Photobloc '19

Photobooks on a table:
• LAMF: Three Days in Berlin, 1987 – John Gossage (Magic Hour Press ’26)
• Wool, Wind and Waves: Faroe Islands – Eva Chupíková (self-published ’26)
• Catalogue Epitome – Vic Bakin (Unsocial Studio Gallery/Sugar Paper ’26)
• Everybody Dance! – Masha Sviatahor (Tamaka ’25)
• Documentation of the War – Vladyslav Krasnoshchok (Red Hook Publishing ’26)
• Photobloc: Central Europe in Photobooks – Łukasz Gorczyca, Adam Mazur e.a. (Real Independent ’19)

Weekend Reading • Is Life Under The Sun Not Just a Dream - Rocco Venezia • Genocídio do Yanomami – Claudia Andujar • Tout en ce lieu me survivra – Alexandra Catiere • 13-15 November - Portraits - London – Jack Davison • Juno – Louise Honée • 36 Potplants – Wysocka / Pogo (publishers in alt-text)

Weekend Reading
(books on a table:)

• Is Life Under The Sun Not Just a Dream - Rocco Venezia
(Witty Books ’25)
• Genocídio do Yanomami – Claudia Andujar
(Void ’25)
• Tout en ce lieu me survivra – Alexandra Catiere 
(the(M) éditions ’26)
• 13-15 November - Portraits - London – Jack Davison
(Helion ’26)
• Juno – Louise Honée
(Origini Edizioni ’26)
• 36 Potplants – Wysocka / Pogo
(Outerspace Press ’26)

Weekend Reading • Fishworm – Pia P. Guilmoth & Jesse B. Saffire • Funiculì Funiculà – Hans Borg • Scab - Ye Zeng Yi Li • Homesick New York – Michael Ackerman • Poppy Promises - Thomas Duffield • Blood Green – Curran Hatleberg • Gumsucker – Rory King

• Fishworm – Pia P. Guilmoth & Jesse B. Saffire
(Void ’25)
• Funiculì Funiculà – Hans Borg
(self-published ’25)
• Scab - Ye Zeng Yi Li
(Lato Paper ’26)
• Homesick New York – Michael Ackerman
(Blow Up Press ’25) 
• Poppy Promises - Thomas Duffield
(Witty Books ’25)
• Blood Green – Curran Hatleberg 
(TBW Books ’25)
• Gumsucker – Rory King 
(Charcoal Press ’25)

I took an advance on summer, spending sun-drenched mornings with a book and coffee on the apartment's terrace in Lanzarote, while the afternoons were for explorations. What a landscape!

Montaña Roja in Lanzarote. One picture shows rocks glowing red in the early evening sun, with the mountain partly disappearing in fog and darkened by the late hour. The second photo is of a road going sharply up, its lines in sharp contrast to its darkening environment, with an orange sky accentuating the late hour.

Weekendreading Found on the Meta-list -You Are What You Do – Daniel Arnold -Catálogo – Ricardo Cases -Algo que pesa – Daniel L. Fleitas -4 Sides of the Table – Ruth Lauer Manenti -Too Many Products Too Much Pressure – Janet Delaney -The Weight of Ash – Ian Bates viory.substack.com/p/informal-c...

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“We urge you to consider how the proposed layoffs will certainly lead us first to irrelevance – not the shared success that remains attainable," WSJ staffers wrote [to owner Besos]. “We know what happens when newspapers slash their international sections: they lose reach and they lose relevance.”

‘No one knows anything’: Washington Post staffers fear major cuts

Members of foreign staff send letter to billionaire owner Jeff Bezos urging him to change course

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❄️✨ Table 1 (New Year!) ✨❄️ Looking forward To a more sensitive and sensible year ❄️ Ctrl Shift+J – Sayuri Ichida ❄️ Trois mers et quatre terres – Stéphane Charpentier & Damien Daufresne ❄️ Dissonances – Boris Snauwaert ❄️ Blank Notes – Marshall To ❄️ Dilucolo “Before the Dawn" – Ben Osborne

Books on my table for tomorrow
(or the day after)

• Ctrl Shift+J – Sayuri Ichida
(the (M)editions ’25)
• Trois mers et quatre terres – Stéphane Charpentier & Damien Daufresne
(Éditions Le Mulet ’25)
• Dissonances – Boris Snauwaert (drawings - Valentino Barachini)
(Grani Edizione ’25)
• Blank Notes – Marshall To
(Charcoal Press ’25)`
Dilucolo “Before the Dawn" – Ben Osborne
(Grani Edizione ’25)

❄️🎄 I have set an extra table for Christmas 🎄❄️ • Dimma Brume Mist – JH Engström • Maine – Gerry Johansson • The Classroom – Hicham Benohoud • Windows to the Unexpected | fenêtres sur l'insolite – Albarrán Cabrera • Starlings – Jem Southam • The Killing Ditch - Damien Wootten • Sistermoon – Siri Kaur

❄️🎄 I have set an extra table for the Christmas Season 🎄❄️
• Dimma Brume Mist – JH Engström (Void ’25)
• Maine – Gerry Johansson (The Ice Plant ’25)
• The Classroom – Hicham Benohoud (Loose Joints ’25)
• Windows to the Unexpected | fenêtres sur l'insolite – Albarrán Cabrera (Editorial RM ’25)
• Starlings – Jem Southam (Raft ’25)
• The Killing Ditch - Damien Wootten (self-published ’25)
• Sistermoon – Siri Kaur (Void ’25)

A table with photobooks on it.)

December Batch • Octopus – Pasquale Autiero, Gil Barez, Vincen Beeckman, Stéphane Charpentier, Manu Jougla, Marie Sordat, Mathieu Van Assche & Simon Vansteenwinckel • Distribution – Daniel Shea • Tall Socks – Marc Cohen • BRRRXL – Mathieu Van Assche • Owl – Yamamoto Masao • Moon City – Mimi Mollico

A table with photobooks on it:

"Weekend Reading December"
• Octopus – Pasquale Autiero, Gil Barez, Vincen Beeckman, Stéphane Charpentier, Manu Jougla, Marie Sordat, Mathieu Van Assche & Simon Vansteenwinckel (Le Mulet ’25)
• Distribution – Daniel Shea (Mack ’25)
• Tall Socks – Marc Cohen (Gost ’25)
• BRRRXL – Mathieu Van Assche (The Mulet ’25)
• Owl – Yamamoto Masao (Kiku Label ’25)
• Moon City – Mimi Mollico (co-published with Dewi Lewis ’25)

This article encourages us to seek out things more beautiful or interesting on our own, rather than relying on AI-generated 'best of' lists. I realise how fortunate we are that so many people in Photo Land are still willing to compile their year-end lists with personal motivation, not an easy task.

Weg met Wrapped: we hebben oprechte lijstjes nodig

Kunstmatige intelligentie stuurt steeds meer wat we mooi moeten vinden. Algoritmes werken eenvormigheid en conformisme in de hand. Kelli van der Waals pleit daarom voor eigenzinnige beelden, geluiden,...

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