During a trip through Japan’s southern islands, where small houses are built from a range of materials using traditional methods, photographer Awoiska van der Molen was drawn to the windows. Walls there are thin because of the mild climate, but she was struck by the fact that, apart from the sound of the television, stockinged feet on hollow floors, or noises from the kitchen, all that could be heard was the hum of the air conditioning – no heated discussions, no loud laughter, no casual ...

At his workspace in the centre of Amsterdam, when the afternoon sun is just right, Thomas Manneke captures still lifes and portraits of his daughter, Laurie, using an 8x10 inch plate camera. Most photographs in this book were made in collaboration with his daughter. The objects in the book are made especially to photograph them. Sometimes they are inspired by found objects, like a small grey stone with whimsical white lines or by a web created by caterpillars. Some objects were inspired by ar...