Dear Thank You Yours Sincerely
This book is a collection of 77 letters received by the artist in reply to his incessant applications over a period of three years. From these most prosaic documents a kind of bittersweet poetry emerges, a sustained and repetitive meditation on the politics and the poetics of rejection. Author: Atsuhide Ito

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Yamanote
Iñigo Asis’s photographs, taken on Tokyo’s circle line, exploit the sense of ‘curtains opening’, when the unsuspecting passengers momentarily confront the waiting photographer.

Standing in front of the camera has never been so annoying. But the point is that from this uncomfortable situation the most fascinating facial expressions emerge: hidden details of the contained anger created by the impotence to do anything about it. Author: Inigo Asis

Powersmile
Privately collected by two German teenagers in the 70’s, the press-photos of US Senators and Governors in ‘Power-Smile’ are a miniature archive of a period when media-friendliness became the establishment’s key survival strategy, evidence of the then-emerging reality that a good PR shot is worth a thousands votes.

Clean as my teeth, straight as my tie. Here in all their greasy glory are the power-hungry political chameleons of Nixon’s America, flossing for office and combing for Capitol Hill.  What do you see in the mesmerised stare? Learned or lobotomised? Groomed or doomed? Author: Adam Lowe

Tablehead
‘Tablehead’ is a kind of travelogue, a document on the appearance of ‘players’ in six different countries, and the pictures themselves are replete with subliminal signifiers of national difference.

They play without pay. Table footballers are four-inch ‘time capsules’. Bruised and abused by their obligitory vocation, some lose their heads, others bear their scars with pride. Every face a story soaked in personal pain and glory. Author: Nicola Shwartz

He said, She said
These unassuming snippets of typed dialogue and ultra-naïve felt-pen drawings of stylish young people, set against a background of lined school notepaper, presents us with a catalogue of poignant, and often hilarious, vignettes.

“I love you.” he said.
“How do I know that?” she said.
“You don’t.” he said.

Prodding for reassurance, these felt-tip creatures explore the deception behind romantic cliches. Emotions wrapped in words confuse the truth. It’s not that we don’t mean what we say, it’s that we don’t know what we mean. Author: Daisy de Villeneuve.