To be honest, I started buying photo books made by fellow photographers late. I actually had no idea until I came across Julian Briard on YouTube with his What’s on my bookshelf. I participated as a photographer in the Natural Landscape Photography Awards and ordered book year one. Now I have also year 2 and 3 and these books are very beautiful, well printed and casebound. Now my bookshelf is slowly expanding with several books.

I recently discovered Kozubooks. 

I immediately ordered 4 books there that caught my first attention.  Adam Gibbs known from YouTube, Hans Strand generally known for his aerial photographs and less wellknown Martin Rak. 

The books have the same size 30 x 24 cm, 90 to 120 pages. printed on Fedrigoni Symbol Freelife Satin 170gsm, Thread Sewn and hardcover. 

About the contents of the books of these photographers,  Adam who is not familiar with him and delivers a book Quit Light full of his beloved Vancouver Island hotspots and lesser known places,  now and then we see beautiful shots from other countries such as Greenland , China and Scotland, but these are heavily undernumbered, could have been more, all three photographers also pay attention to the different seasons. 

Adam’s content is beautiful and nicely balanced, I always enjoy following his work. 

Then Hans’ work also shows a great diversity in photography included in the books, from river deltas to more intimate photos of snow and ice, his preference for Iceland and Norway is clearly visible, Hans also traveled to Greenland and Antarctica. The Rio Tinto, the most polluted river in Europe, is also included in with the red color of the pollution. This river can be found in Spain. These are two impressive books by Hans, called Beyond Landscape and Aqua. Beautiful. 

Then for myself the most unknown of these three Martin Rak, this book with the Japanese title Komorebi was the big surprise for me, his Woodlands photography is unearthly without words, if Woodlands photography already seems simple to many people, I can tell you from experience, no, it is not, and it takes a lot of time and devotion to understand nature and transform it into something that grabs you, Martin has succeeded. This beautiful book also contains plenty of work to enjoy and will often be opened like the other three books to browse, wonder and enjoy. 

I recommend everyone to follow this link and see if there is something you like: https://www.kozubooks.com 

Just this for myself because I was late with this publisher, I missed the books by Rachel Talibart and Ben Horne. I think it’s very rare and diffecult to find these books. I am most interested in landscape, woodlands. seascapes, and nature in general. 

Last thing to say if you are interested and need some inspiration order some books because these are printed in low numbers mostly 500 included special and collectors editions with signed and numbered print, don’t wait to long, otherwise you will regret it. In the meantime I preordered now ‘STILLNESS. IN MOTION’ By Sally Mason, and looking forward what the future has to offer. 

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https://www.kozubooks.com/books-new/stillness-in-motion-by-sally-mason

https://www.kozubooks.com/books-new/aqua-by-hans-strand

https://www.kozubooks.com/books-new/beyond-landscape-by-hans-strand

https://www.kozubooks.com/books-new/komorebi-by-martinrak

https://www.kozubooks.com/books-new/quiet-light-by-adam-gibbs-third-edition