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)
Viory
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photographer - writer - photobook nerd - journalism and democracy lover
•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
• 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
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.
aljazeera.com
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)
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
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, a reporter for the newspaper Al-Akhbar, was killed in an Israeli attack, targeted first in the car, and then the house she fled to. The Lebanese Red Cross was prevented from helping her by another round of bombs. Read who she was: thepublicsource.org/amal-khalil-...
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 • 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
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!
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...
"The Post has always been a writers’ paper, a newsroom so thoroughly scrappy that simultaneously anything seems possible—big ideas, big ambition—and it still feels like a small miracle each day when such consistently good journalism emerges from such glorious mayhem." They deserve so much better.
The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
theatlantic.com
Finally, my favourite own photobook year-end list!
My favourite books of 2025
I had ninety 2025 books to enjoy reading and rereading at a quiet pace.
open.substack.com
(gift link) ICE is turning its surveillance state on U.S. citizens. This is known:
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
nytimes.com
In case you need new energy after these exhausting two weeks.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
“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
theguardian.com
“I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying, ‘You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you [ICE] human anymore?’” (...) It reminded me again of the Tahrir Square protests in 2011, when so many people seemed to have reached a moral and political turning point.
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
theatlantic.com
I came to understand that Europe finally decided to end appeasement politics. I hope this shows the New York Times is planning the same, and other media will follow. More like this, please.
Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion (Gift Article)
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
nytimes.com
❄️✨ 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
The Photobook Community List Half as many lists as in other years so far. I do miss certain voices and books that deserve to be on it, but we are not done yet and it sure is interesting already! Please, keep sending your lists. Publishers are welcome to tip me off too!
Photobook Community List
Your favourite 2025 photobooks, together with ours
viory.substack.com
❄️🎄 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
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
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,...
trouw.nl