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In Capitalism and Culture, Henry Giroux argues that culture has now become the central front in a global struggle for democracy. Drawing on thinkers from Bourdieu and Gramsci to Stuart Hall and Edward Said, Giroux exposes how capitalism and authoritarianism now fuse into a single 'disimagination machine' - one that erases memory, normalises cruelty and trains citizens to accept injustice as common sense.Across essays and interviews, he shows that fascism is not only a political or economic project but a cultural one, sustained through spectacle, distraction and the control of language, media, and technology. Yet culture also holds the means of resistance: it can awaken conscience, preserve memory and cultivate the imagination necessary for solidarity and change.Giroux calls for a renewed cultural and pedagogical revolution - one that reclaims education, art, and media as spaces for civic courage and hope. Against the culture of cruelty, he urges the creation of a culture of freedom.Capitalism and Culture is an essential manifesto for artists, educators, curators and citizens who see culture not as entertainment but as the ground on which democracy itself will stand or fall.

The Erasure of Palestine is the outcome of a three-year journey by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz, who set out to document what remains of the hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns depopulated and destroyed during the creation and expansion of Israel from 1948 to the present.Today, unmistakable traces of destroyed Palestinian communities haunt nearly every Israeli settlement, revealing not just a past catastrophe but an ongoing process – a continuing history of colonisation and removal. Combining visual evidence, field research and historical testimony, Al-Bazz shows that what began as a single act of ethnic cleansing has evolved into a sustained strategy of occupation and erasure.Through more than 80 haunting photographs and incisive accompanying essays, The Erasure of Palestine exposes the physical and psychological landscapes of disappearance, offering a stark counter-narrative to the dominant historical record. This landmark work stands as both documentation and resistance – an urgent appeal to remember what is continually being denied.

This book, an exclusive interview with Berlin-based, Irish artist and filmmaker Declan Clarke, provides a detailed insight into the creative process of an artist at a key stage in his career. Clarke is a master communicator and storyteller - always open, amusing, inspiring - and highly readable. Ranging from his early formative experiences at art college to his work on his most recent, award-winning films, the interview ranges over those issues of fundamental concern to almost any artist: instinct, research, colour, form, collaboration, career, funding, creativity, technology, politics... and the dogs of Bucharest. The interview is illustrated by images of Clarke at work researching and shooting his films.Thread-sewn, OTA binding, with flaps.Cover: Callisto Pearl 250gsm.Text: Olin: Rough Soft White 120gsm.

Published over 40 years ago, Photography/Politics: One has been long sought-after and long out of print. This new edition reproduces the full text, images and advertisements, plus new updates from some of the original authors, in a contemporary format, and introduces its contemporary importance and relevance to a new audience.The book poses two simple, but far-reaching, questions: How does photography contribute to the defence of the old order? And how may it be used to help hasten the arrival of the new?There follow 23 chapters of perceptive and incisive analysis of the contemporary and historical role of photography in society - they remain even more relevant today than they were 40 years ago.Thread-sewn, OTA binding, with flaps.Cover: Callisto Pearl 250gsm.Text: Munken Print White 90gsm.

'Buildings embody ideological aims and reflect the value systems of those with the power to plan... they are key cultural and political indicators of their time.'So writes photographer John Kippin in his latest book. A perspective he explores in a stunning series of more than 100 carefully composed, powerfully perceptive images of Mussolini's fascist Romanitas project in Rome. A brutal conception of power, marginalising women and celebrating masculinity and aggression.In four accompanying essays, his perspective is extended to the examine the architecture of contemporary London, Europe and North America.John Kippin is Emeritus Professor of Photography at the University of Sunderland. He lives on the island of North Uist in Scotland.Thread-sewn, OTA binding, with flaps.Cover: Callisto Pearl 250gsm.Text: Munken Polar Rough 120gsm.

This major new publication provides a comprehensive overview of the largely-unknown work of photographer Edith Tudor Hart (1908-1973) during her 40 years living in Britain.

A collection of poems by spoken word artist Aditi Banerjee in response to the genocide taking place in Palestine and accompanied by images which reflect the worldwide protests against Israel's atrocities. i want you to see what this destruction actually doeswhat the numbers mean if the numbers were us[from memories]Published in Association with the Cornelius Cardew Concerts TrustThread sewn, OTA binding, with flapsCover: Calisto Pearl 170gText: Edixion 100gsm white offset

This photo-essay brings together the powerful street art visible today on the walls of Belfast with the words of the Irish patriots who inspired them.From the Plough to the Stars is a striking reflection of the solidarity between the Irish and Palestinian peoples - and the parallels and similarities in their national struggles: "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty".Thread sewn, with French flapsCover: Calisto Pearl 170gText: Edixion 100gsm white offset

Maureen Scott, the revolutionary artist whose work opened Tate's acclaimed Women in Revolt! exhibition, was the founder and driving force behind The League of Socialist Artists. Through her art and visionary writings, she offers a powerful call to reimagine our lives and unite in the fight for meaningful change.For the first time, this book brings together the groundbreaking publications of The League of Socialist Artists, written by its founder and secretary, Maureen Scott. It also features rarely seen examples of her powerful paintings, graphic design, and photography. Long overlooked by the mainstream, Scott's work stands as both a political and artistic testament-foregrounding her radical socialist activism and her incisive analysis of the deep scars left by capitalism.

Regarded as one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the history of the medium, Street Life in London - first published in 1877 - is a ground-breaking work of social documentation which brought together for the first time images, analysis and the spoken word to provide a new kind of proximity to the conditions of poverty. This new edition presents these exceptional images in their original rich tones and remarkable detail, together with the full original text and a new historical introduction.When, in the 1870s, Street Life in London's authors, photographer John Thomson and journalist Adolphe Smith, set out to profile the people who worked and lived on the city's streets, they did not expect their project to last only a year. Both wanted to revolutionise the representation of poverty, each in his own way, and in many of their images and texts they succeeded - a quality which makes their book thrillingly innovative to today's readers, but which left Victorian viewers baffled.

Drawing on little-known and unpublished archive material, The Crisis Project makes available for the first time Terry Dennett's work from his ground-breaking, 37-year project to record the visual evidence for "a criminal trial against those who have presided over the despoliation and destruction of our society."Terry Dennett (1938-2018), a socialist, and tirelessly active, sought new ways of understanding, seeing and changing the world through photography. He remains one the most influential figures in radical British photography, with an impact extending far beyond image-making - into publishing, exhibiting, teaching and shaping photographic theory. The Crisis Project forms part of a ground-breaking trilogy of books - alongside Terry Dennett & Jo Spence: Our Studio Was The World and Jo Spence: The Unknown Recordings - which explores their unpublished work, ideas and committed socialist perspective.

In 1974, photographers Terry Dennett Jo Spence made repeated visits to 'illegal' Gypsy and Traveller sites in and around London. They got to know the people who lived there, documenting their lives in sound and image. The results of their project never formed a dedicated exhibition or a comprehensive publication, either then or since. Our Studio Was The World makes this powerful and still strikingly relevant work accessible to a new audience, with over 280 newly scanned (and in some cases newly discovered) images and previously unpublished texts. As Dennett commented, Gypsies and Travellers were 'persecuted terribly... talk about the Nazis!' Today, they remain socially marginalised, over-policed and discriminated against.Together and individually, Terry Dennett and Jo Spence are among the most influential figures in radical British photography, with their impact extending far beyond image-making - into publishing, exhibiting, teaching and shaping photographic theory. Our Studio Was The World is the first in a ground-breaking trilogy of books - alongside Terry Dennett: The Crisis Project and Jo Spence: The Unknown Recordings - which explores their unpublished work, ideas and committed socialist perspective.

Within a remote coastal landscape, generations-old skills and traditional beliefs flourish. All work is manual. The pace steady. Tools hand-made from the hedgerows. Boats rowed, not powered. The language poetic. And mussel beds are washed fresh by the tides.But this environment, which looks marginal, is in fact central. Pairing haunting documentary images with oral history and contemporary commentary, Behind The Screens shines a light on the economic processes that underlie every aspect of our lives. Even in the most unexpected places.

Jo Spence: The Unknown Recordings opens an unfiltered window onto one of Britain's most influential and uncompromising photographers. Drawn from newly-discovered tapes, documents and unpublished photographs sourced from private and institutional collections, the material reveals a voice far more intimate, direct and searching than anything previously published.At its core are two extraordinary audio recordings: a seven-hour British Library interview in which Spence reflects with forensic clarity on her early life, her political formation, her experience of class and the responsibilities of documentary practice; and a deeply personal self-recorded tape - made only for herself - in which she thinks through work, illness, relationships and the conditions of her own life. Together they form the most sustained and revealing account of her inner world.The book also includes previously unseen images of the small London flat that served as her home, studio, workspace and meeting place: a space that helped shape her working life and her political imagination.Intense, candid and often devastatingly honest, The Unknown Recordings offers a sustained, unvarnished account of a working life shaped by precarious housing, chronic illness and low-paid, self-directed work - a unique insight into Jo Spence's mind, methods and convictions. And an essential resource for anyone interested in photography, feminism, working-class cultural history, and the ways in which personal experience and political commitment can be woven into a lifelong practice.

In Imperfect, photographer David George brings together some 200 unpublished photographs - striking night-time colour images, and fine monochrome photogravures using the century-old intaglio method. It is the culmination of eight years' work, drawn from more than 4,000 images made while walking hundreds of miles over carefully planned routes along the major river corridors of North-East England.Uniquely, George has deliberately relinquished control over the final outcome, accepting 'imperfection' as part of his process. The result is a body of work of exceptional power and subtlety: a memorable record of land shaped by industry. Images that invite us to think about our landscapes - and what they reveal about our society.

In 1968, amid the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in London and the global upheavals that followed, Peter Kennard turned from painting to photomontage in search of a more direct political language. STOP emerged from that moment.Working with images drawn from newspapers and magazines - civil rights marchers, bombed landscapes, military parades, protest crowds - Kennard re-photographed, layered, scratched and overlaid them with autographic marks. The result is neither documentary nor illustration, but a sustained visual argument. Across its pages, production and destruction collapse into one field: factory and battlefield, crowd and target, machine and flesh.This is an entirely visual book, yet it asks to be read. Images recur and fracture. Blots, scratches and stencilled marks disrupt photographic realism, breaking pictures down to the minimum signs of human presence in struggle. The viewer is not offered explanation or consolation. Instead, the work demands active engagement - a recognition of the systems that organise violence as routine and normal.First conceived in the wake of 1968 and developed over many years, drawing on struggles in Vietnam, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Chile, Palestine and elsewhere, STOP remains disturbingly current. It does not present war as aberration but as method; not peace as resolution but as managed inequality.The book's title is neither slogan nor sentiment. It is a demand made in full knowledge of the apparatus it confronts - and of what it would take, materially and collectively, to bring it to an end.

Franz Höllering, editor of the influential workers' paper Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung, once advised photographers: "focus on the simple key facts". This photographic essay does exactly that. In carefully composed images, the book examines a surprising aspect of the high street fashion industry - the widespread use of books to enhance sales and perceived value. Höllering's prescient and concise text accompanies the pictures in an exhortation to contemporary photographers.Thread sewn, OTA binding, with flapsCover: Calisto Pearl 170gText: Edixion 100gsm white offset

Distress for Control reveals the unseen... This thought-provoking photographic essay unfolds against the backdrop of the "greatest private equity deal of all time". It examines its far-reaching impact - how it enriched three billionaires, cost 2,500 people their jobs, and exposed the unsettling intersection of sexual abuse and high art. Through striking imagery, the book delves into the hidden forces and motivations that shape such events - a stark visual exploration of power, loss, and control.The images were captured in the urban landscape around Arles - home to the world's largest photography festival. "Distress-for-control" is a stock market strategy in which investors deliberately drive a company into financial distress to gain control of it at a lower cost.The REFRAME collection of pocket-sized books brings together radical ideas and bold design - affordable, sharply focused books with a clear perspective on the world.

A striking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world. In this thought-provoking photo essay, centuries-old trees stand as powerful symbols of humanity’s control over nature. Yet, like people, these trees bear the marks of the social conditions in which they have grown and evolved.Thread sewn, OTA binding, with flapsCover: Calisto Pearl 170gText: Edixion 100gsm white offset

A must-have collection of quotations for progressive photographers. Allan Sekula warned that art was becoming “a colony of the capitalist media.” In these concise texts, leading voices from philosophy, criticism, art, and photography explore how Marxist theory can shape creative practice - particularly in photography. The book also includes a curated list of recommended readings for further exploration.Thread sewn, OTA binding, with flapsCover: Calisto Pearl 170g Text: Edixion 100gsm white offset