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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

•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)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

• 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
lab coat material

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)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

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.

aljazeera.com

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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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

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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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

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)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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-...

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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.

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I took an advance on summer.

Photos of Famara coast and mountains on Lanzarote.

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

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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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"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.

theatlantic.com

The Murder of The Washington Post

Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

(gift link) ICE is turning its surveillance state on U.S. citizens. This is known:

nytimes.com

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In case you need new energy after these exhausting two weeks.

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“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.”

theguardian.com

‘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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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“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.

theatlantic.com

Welcome to the American Winter

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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.

nytimes.com

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.

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

❄️✨ 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)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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!

viory.substack.com

Photobook Community List

Your favourite 2025 photobooks, together with ours

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

❄️🎄 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.)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

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.

trouw.nl

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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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

"It's a routine we few crazy souls around here have, and perhaps it serves us like when we used to send greetings by post. I like to think of it as a kind of secret message, like smoke signals to share what still moves us. In the end, we're left with a few gestures and many books." Gabriela Cendoya

open.substack.com

Una lista demasiado larga, un año más.

My personal Substack

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Meta-list 2023 has been moved from Facebook to Substack. And 2024 is expected today!

open.substack.com

meta-list 2023

your favourite photobooks, together with ours.

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Another photobook meta-list moved from Facebook to Substack. Countdown to Listmas accelerates. The first year-end list of the year (www.whatwillyouremember.com/our-favorite...) has arrived already.

open.substack.com

Meta-list 2021

a second pandemic edition

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

nytimes.com

100 Notable Books of 2025

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Handmade Book Weekend • Interesting Things –Salome Erni • Police, Politicians, Policy, Politeness –Larry • The Dog Sat Where We Parted –Mahmoud Khattab • Track –Hajime Kimura • A Discreet Exit Through Darkness & Things We Lost Last Night –Soumya Sanker Bose • El vuelo lleva al vuelo –Juanan Requena

Book on a surface:

Weekend Reading
Handmade photobooks

• Interesting Things – Salome Erni
(self-published ’25)
• Police, Politicians, Policy, Politeness – Larry
(Oil Press ’25) *1
• The Dog Sat Where We Parted – Mahmoud Khattab
(self-published '24)
• Track – Hajime Kimura
(self-published ’25)
• A Discreet Exit Through Darkness & Things We Lost Last Night – Soumya Sanker Bose
(self-published ’25) *2
• El vuelo lleva al vuelo – Juanan Requena
(Ediciones Anómalas ’25) *2

*1 This birthday present is inspired by Another Art World by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber. You need a hammer to break the plaster and discover the book.
*2 The last two books I have of both artists were completely handmade. These are not. Still great.

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Weekend Reading •Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. by Edgar Martins •love knot by Yuri Goto •Radiations of War by Yana Kononova •Angan-Angan Harsa by Farid Renais Ghimas •The Waning Season by Oliver Gerhartz •Our Hidden Room by Mohamed Hassan •空氣 Atmosphere – 時津剛 by Takeshi Tokitsu

Six photobooks on a surface, plus boxes that together contain another photobook.

• Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb. – Edgar Martins
(The Moth House ’24)
• love knot – Yuri Goto
(self-published ’25)
• Radiations of War – Yana Kononova
(xyz/Fotodok ’25)
• Angan-Angan Harsa – Farid Renais Ghimas
(JordanJordan ’25)
• The Waning Season – Oliver Gerhartz
(Nearest Truth '25)
• Our Hidden Room – Mohamed Hassan
(Editorial RM ’25)
• 空氣 Atmosphere – 時津剛 Takeshi Tokitsu
(self-published ’25)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

META-LIST MIGRATION MESSAGE – I'm moving the Photobook Meta-list from Facebook to Substack. It took me two weeks to revamp and migrate the first two of ten lists, but I'm still planning to be up to date when the new 'List-mas' starts. Until then, get anew inspired here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Books on the USA Americans Seen – Sage Sohier In the American West – Richard Avedon It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel – Raymond Thompson Jr In The Shadows – Simon Vansteenwinckel Twelve Acres – Henry O Head American – Robin de Puy Soup – Mike Brodie & Soup The Reservoir – Mimi Plumb

[photobooks laid out on a surface]

Weekend & Reading
All American Special

•Americans Seen – Sage Sohier
(Nazraeli)
•In the American West – Richard Avedon
(Abrams)
• It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel – Raymond Thompson Jr
(Void)
• In The Shadows – Simon Vansteenwinckel
(Lamaindonne)
• Twelve Acres – Henry O. Head
(Twin Palms)
• American – Robin de Puy
(Hannibal)
• Soup – Mike Brodie & Soup
(Làto Paper)
• The Reservoir – Mimi Plumb
(Nazraeli)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Getting ready for Halloween? Enjoy these photographs by Peter Mitchell and the lyrical description by Geoff Dyer. "As the scarecrows collapse in on themselves, it’s as if they end up consuming their own body fat just to stay alive — if that is the word, which clearly it is not." gift article NYT

nytimes.com

The Startling Beauty of Scarecrows (Published 2016)

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Nala 🖤 gone but still loved

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

A forensic investigation of 219 killings points to Israel's deliberate targeting of reporters to suppress the truth about its assault on the enclave. Find out the details in these animated figures.

thenationalnews.com

How (and why) Gaza has become the deadliest place in the world for journalists | The National

Investigation of 219 killings points to Israel's targeting of reporters to suppress the truth about assault on the enclave

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"Second, antitrust authorities should not allow large corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests to buy major newspapers or media platforms. They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their financial interests in their range of businesses."

robertreich.substack.com

Trump Tightens his Grip on the Media

A president shouldn't be allowed to use defamation to suppress criticism of him. Big businesses likely to surrender to this shouldn't be allowed to buy major media.

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Viory @viory.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This photo sale for Gaza ends on Oct 4. Get a fine art print by one of 100 participating Belgian photographers. Proceeds will be donated to: The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund, The Wings of Healing, Doctors Without Borders, the Palestine Film Institute, and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.

pourgaza.sumupstore.com

POUR GAZA - EXPO-VENTE / FOR GAZA - EXHIBITION-SALE

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