We start with two forthcoming limited editions from Editions Bessard. Details for the first one, Day by Day by J H Engstrom, are still very limited but the images I have seen suggest a photographic diary of Engstrom's life in the Montreuil district of Paris. As it has only 600 copies and comes with a print, I imagine copies will disappear pretty quickly. 

Judith Black was part of a new wave of photographers arising in the 1980s whose work revealed how the domestic interior, the lives of children, and the daily habits of the family are filled with meaning and arresting visual interest. She had moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1979 with her four children. Over the next two decades, Black would make a series of images that chronicled the lives of her young children and her relationship with them. They were located in Pleasant Street - despite its name, a fairly rough part of town – and the street’s name has been given to a collection of this work just published by Stanley/Barker. Sample images and article.

Carolyn Drake’s Knit Club is a foreboding meditation in the vein of Southern Gothic literature. Drake developed this body of work while working in collaboration with an enigmatic group of women in one small Mississippi town loosely calling themselves "Knit Club." The nature of the club is ambiguous. It is a cross between a gang, a cult of mysteries, and a group of friends bound by secrets only they share. Sample images and article.

The US independent Yoffy Press are about to publish the fourth in their Triptych series. In each Triptych, three artists are given a word to inspire the creation of a small book of work. The three resulting books are sold as a set, inviting the viewer into the collaboration to make connections between the projects and the overarching theme. The theme of the fourth collection is Reveal and features work by Debbie Fleming Caffery, Cig Harvey, Andrea Modica. See our webpage for sample images. 

In Perfect Day, Txema Salvans – whose previous work includes The Waiting Game - photographs Spain's holiday-makers in unexpected corners of the postindustrial landscape. Sunbathers congregate in car parks, swimming pools are nestled between encroaching buildings, and cranes and cooling towers loom over beaches. In these surreal, banal and humorous scenes, Salvans’s images reveal the indomitable human desire for a moment of repose in the sun, however unappealing the surroundings may be. We will have signed copies. Sample images.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo in Color is devoted to the colour work of one of the acknowledged Mexican masters of black-and-white photography. Alvarez Bravo produced some 3000 works in colour. This book presents over 80 of the most significant images, many of them published for the first time, covering a broad spectrum, from his classic subjects – street scenes, portraits, nudes - to lesser known abstracts and colour experiments. See our webpage for sample images.

Marco Gualazzini is a photojournalist represented by the Contrasto agency. The first full volume of his work, Resilient, collects his most important photo essays of the last ten years from many different parts of Africa. See our webpage for sample images.  

Buck Ellison is a young Californian photographer. His first book, Living Trust, is at first glance a series of tableaux of wealthy white Americans in their homes, in the manner of Tina Barney. Closer inspection suggests an artificiality, an extension of the clichés of privilege to absurdity. In fact, Ellison has used actors to perform carefully constructed scenarios. Sample images. 

From Mack, Thought Pieces looks back at the photographs by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips and Hal Fischer, all active in San Francisco in the 1970s. They challenged what they saw as the mystical thinking and emotionalism dominating photography and incorporated elements from structuralism and conceptual art in their work.