Maria Siorba
Blank Verse
38 € EUR
First Edition
November 2025
In her debut book, Maria Siorba explores the connections underlying the emotional dynamics of our generation.
Photography responds to a secret call that seems to penetrate the meshes of thought like sunlight through a curtain in a dimly lit room. In Blank Verse, the questioning of subjective and relational perspective, with respect to the inaccessibility of any inner phenomenon, takes the form of a silent flow of telepathy exercises, lunar apparitions, and magnetic attractions.
The copper-colored surfaces alternating along the entire sequence reveal the metaphysical nature of the exploration of identity, transforming the images into messengers from the underground realm of sensations.
Book launch :
Polycopies Paris 2025
Thursday November 13, 2025 at 5PM
Départ Pour l’Image Booth P79
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240x270 mm | 56 pages
8 color, 27 b&w images + copper colored pages
English
Hardcover with embossing
Metallic copper colored edges
Offset CMYK
Paper:
Wibalin Natural Grey 120 g/m2
Wibalin Natural Black 120 g/m2
Coral Book White 170 g/m2
Garda Gloss 115 g/m2
Printed in Italy by Grafiche Antiga
First edition 1000 copies
November 2025
ISBN 978-88-947598-6-0
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Book review:
Conscientious Photography Magazine by Jorg Colberg
L’Intervalle blog by Fabien Ribery
Mathias de Lattre
ZOORAMA
12 € EUR
First Edition
November 2025
During a week-long elementary school trip to Dordogne in southwestern France, Mathias de Lattre and his classmates visited Parc du Thot in Thonac, where he took the opportunity to try out the new disposable camera his mother had just given him. The photographic adventure in the wildlife and prehistoric area takes us back in time and to an imaginary place inhabited by a variety of grazing animals alongside giant ancestors set in poses reminiscent of their famous portraits in nearby Lascaux.
ZOORAMA collects the highlights from this first series, entitled Jetable, marking de Lattre’s clear debut at the age of ten, anticipating his vocation and hinting at the visual language to come.
Book launch :
Polycopies Paris 2025
Saturday November 15, 2025 at 2PM
Départ Pour l’Image Booth P79
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190x220 mm | 12 pages
English
Saddle stich
Offset CMYK
Garda Gloss 115 g/m²
Silkprinted PVC folder
Printed in Italy by Grafiche Antiga
First edition 1000 copies
November 2025
ISBN 9788894759846
James Gallagher
Wild Flowers
29 € EUR
First Edition
June 2025
Sometimes, romances bloom like wildflowers.
Unexpected carnal encounters burgeon among the pages of what appears to be an old practical naturalist handbook.
In Wild Flowers, bodies and flowers alike seem to yield only to the dictates of the impulse to reveal themselves through new shapes and colors.
Amid playful unions and acrobatic connections, James Gallagher’s lovers chase desire along the edges of cut-out paper.
Book launch :
Arles Books Fair 2025
8/12 July 2025
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140x190 mm | 108 pages
English
Hard cover + Dust Jacket
Offset CMYK UV
Munken Print White 18 115 g/m²
Gardagloss 115 g/m²
Surbalin Glatt Aubergine Farbe 6081 115 g/m²
Fedrigoni Sirio Color Rough Perla 115 g/m²
Fedrigoni Sirio Pearl Oyster Shell 125 g/m²
Printed in Italy by Longo spa
First edition 1000 copies
June 2025
ISBN 978-88-947598-3-9
Yelena Yemchuk
Mise en Abyme
40 € EUR
First Edition
November 2024
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PhotoEspana
Book Award 2025
Creation category
Shortlisted
Born from the collaboration between Yelena Yemchuk and Départ Pour l’Image co-founders, Luca Reffo and Francesca Todde, Mise en Abyme is a spin-off of previous book УYY, Україна Yelena Yemchuk, published in July 2022. If УYY appeared as a daydream in a backward journey from the present to youth, Mise en Abyme continues in the form of a phantom reflection of the gaze into the abyss of imagination. The original narrative – the sequence as of stream of consciousness – is rewritten through the montage of residual images of typographical proofs, enlargements, paintings, and photographs. The process behind the book suggests endless and different versions that could ideally repeat themselves infinitely. Each copy of the book contains a unique and different folded original print, which is 1/8th of a typographic sheet saved from being pulped.
Book launch and signing:
Polycopies, Paris
November 9th, 2024 at 5PM
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Press:
L’intervalle Blog
by Fabien Ribery
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235x320 mm | 64 pages
English
Linnen hard cover
Rounded spine
Offset CMYK
Munken Print White 115 g/m²
Cover on Peyer Duchesse Birkenweiss
Printed in Italy by Longo spa
First edition 1000 copies
November 2024
ISBN 978-88-947598-2-2
Francesca Todde
IUZZA. Goliarda Sapienza
52 € EUR
First Edition
July 2024
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Arles
Prix du Livre 2025
Livre d’Auteur
Shortlisted
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Prix Bob Calle 2025
pour le livre d’artiste
Mention Speciale de la Jury
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PhotoEspana
Book Award 2025
Bibliofilia category
Shortlisted
“Where did I come from?
from a dreadfully ancient abyss.”
Goliarda Sapienza, Taccuini, 1989
IUZZA by Francesca Todde tells the story of an encounter, a night sea crossing in search of Goliarda Sapienza. “Iuzza” is the loving childhood nickname given to the writer back in Sicily, where she comes to world in 1924. The crooked symmetry between her biography and work is filled with invisible presences: the vigor of her literary adventure resembles a treasure salvaged from a wreckage.
Starting from Sapienza’s novels, poems, short stories, letters, and personal records, IUZZA unravels as an intimate journey triggered by antagonistic forces, subverting the nature of forms and turning words into images. The sequence of images consists of seven sections that operate through temporal displacement, textual references, and concatenated events. Each part originates from an indirect dialogue with her absence, as a sort of telepathic exchange through empty space aimed at magnifying the perception of emotional connections. Francesca Todde’s photographs are like inner landscapes, or animated spaces leaping across the blurred lines of memory. Her gaze through the lens seems to open on a deserted bustle, following faded footprints up to their origin, which is childish and ancestral, animal and mineral: these images are traces haunted by the feeling that body is everywhere.
(From the Afterword by Luca Reffo)
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Italian, French, English
Texts: Luca Reffo
French translation: Nathalie Castagné
English translation: Marina Calvaresi
165x230 mm | 280 pages
Linnen hard cover with cardboard slipcase
Offset CMYK
Fedrigoni Arena White Rough 120 g/m² | Fedrigoni Sirio Black 140 g/m²
Cover on Peyer Linesse Zartgelb 20302
Printed in Italy by Longo spa
First edition 1500 copies
ISBN 978-88-947598-7-7
This book received the support of
Collezione Donata Pizzi.
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Press:
Conscientious Photography Magazine
by Jörg Colberg
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Exhibitions:
Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie
curated by Raphaëlle Stopin
