Baltimore Photo Space

Arriving Soon! North by Chris Killip

Reserve your copy of this 304 page slipcase edition online!

From Huddersfield to fishing communities on the North Yorkshire coast and the fury of the miners’ strike, Chris Killip’s lens captured the divisions and communities that define England. Born in the Isle of Man in 1946, he spent much of his career documenting life in the North of England, shining a light on the economic and social difficulties that haunted those communities.

While operating in the documentary tradition, Killip’s work is marked by tenderness, by a refusal to cast his subjects as easily dismissible stereotypes. As Killip himself stated: ‘I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered.’ It is precisely this approach that lends Killip’s work its timelessness, with his images reminding us of the divisions that still exist in Britain.

With over half its images published here for the very first time, Chris Killip: North is an evocative guide to the photographer’s work across Northeastern England, alongside a selection of images from Ireland and the Isle of Man. Edited by Mark Holborn and produced with exclusive access to Killip’s archive, this is an essential publication for not just Killip’s many fans, but for all those interested in the social power of photography. As Holborn notes, ‘we live in a world as fractured as that Killip witnessed forty or fifty years ago. Our consciousness is stalked by the fury of our divisions.’

Baltimore! Join us this Sunday at the Baltimore Museum of Art for a rare hometown pop-up. 1-5pm in the Antioch Court

Sunday is Community Day at the BMA and will also be the opening of Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography. Come by to see the exhibition, us and all the other great things the museum has to offer.

We’ll also be open our regular hours at the shop on Saturday, 11-5, if you can’t make it Sunday. Hope to see you this weekend.

Seventh Summer by Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez

Pre-order and receive a small print, exclusive for BPS customers.

Seventh Summer is a meditation on the memory of love. Rather than recounting the story as a narrative, Mateo Ruiz González works through gesture, landscape, and domestic intimacy to construct a visual language for experiences that resist description. Made over seven years, the photographs move between observation and introspection, accumulating into an atmosphere shaped by closeness, absence, and the recognition of an ending. Like memory, they emerge as partial and associative, acting as a testimony to the emotions between two lovers and the solitude that lingered even within their companionship.

An original text by George Weld opens the book through the act of naming. Weld uses fragmented sentences and compound words to evoke the imperfect and evolving language between lovers, extending the photographs into a parallel meditation on the fragile world they inhabit. In addition, excerpts from a poem by Richard Siken from his acclaimed book Crush accompany the work throughout—as if spoken by the artist to his former partner.

At the center of Seventh Summer is the act of tending: to a relationship, to memory, and ultimately to the work itself. From image-making to self-publishing, creation becomes a means of reflection and healing for the artist. Like the seventh day, Seventh Summer becomes a period of contemplation: Creation found its quiet end, and there was rest. The peace that followed was spent in contemplation of the divine work—a stillness in which to reflect on what had been shared, what had been built with care, and the ache that arrives with letting go.

A Commonplace Book by Raymond Meeks

Recently restocked and now shipping!

A Commonplace Book presents photographs by Raymond Meeks selected by John Gossage—a photographer who has been an enduring influence for Meeks, inspiring his approach and use of the camera to construct a picture—untethered from sequence or narrative continuity. Here to discover is a breadth of visual style and approach, varied in form, unified by a singular sensibility. Gossage’s initial impetus for the book was his realization that Meeks had “made some of the most stylistically various single pictures that I had ever seen in a serious photographer’s work.” Meeks then agreed to supply his pictures, from which Gossage made his edit and created a new context for them to be seen one at a time. And so was born, in Gossage’s words, this commonplace book “of remarkable things, pictures that are as rich individually as they are in the narrative of Ray’s books, but in a different way. They stand as convincing in a style of variation with certainty, always having the feel and thought of a single author.”

Now shipping! Cypsela by Salvi Danés

Cypsela is Salvi Danés’ new project, a work that delves into his vital and creative connection with the Empordà region, in Catalonia.

The title refers to the mythical city mentioned by Rufus Festus Avienus in Ora Maritima: an ancient enclave located along this stretch of coastline which, despite never having been conclusively identified — and although it remains uncertain whether it ever truly existed — has endured within the historical and symbolic imagination of the territory. This idea of a possible place, evoked yet unattainable, forms the conceptual core of the project.

His first book, Transmontanus (Ediciones Anómalas, 2014), already marked the beginning of a personal process of return to a landscape to which he has been connected since childhood. With Cypsela, Danés continues and deepens this trajectory, approaching the Empordà not only as a physical space, but also as a territory of mythical and emotional projection. The landscape emerges as a reality inhabited by layers of time, memory and fiction, where human presence, stories, and traces of the past shape a geography that is at once tangible and imagined.

Out The E by Harlan Bozeman

Copies arriving this fall! Pre-order yours via the link in our bio.

Elaine, Arkansas is a town carrying one of the most suppressed chapters in American history. In 1919, hundreds of Black sharecroppers organizing against peonage were massacred by white mobs aided by federal troops—events covered up, distorted, and only classified as lynchings in 2015. Today the town remains deeply abandoned and underfunded, a place where that history never fully receded.

During the Covid pandemic, Bozeman began making regular trips to Elaine, walking around, meeting people, and building relationships over time. Working with a large-format camera, he made portraits of the people who remain—children in particular—that are at once intimate and monumental. These are images of kids on basketball courts and empty streets, of neighbors posing in front of their homes, of young people standing in cemeteries with their backs to the camera. Bozeman returned again and again, bringing prints, bringing photography books, eventually running a summer photography camp for the kids he’d been photographing. The resulting images are interspersed throughout the book with historical photographs made in the aftermath of the 1919 massacre, pulling the past and present into uncomfortable proximity.

Cape Light by Joel Meyerowitz

One of the best selling books of the summer is once again back in stock!

Cape Light, Joel Meyerowitz’s series of serene and contemplative color photographs taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, quickly became one of the most influential and popular photography books in the latter part of the twentieth century at its publication in 1978, breaking new ground both for color photography and for the medium’s acceptance into the art world. Now, nearly fifty years later, Aperture is pleased to reissue this classic photobook.

The book features the now-iconic images of the original edition, newly remastered and printed as never before. In it, everyday scenes—an approaching storm, a local grocery store at dusk, the view through a bedroom window—are transformed by the stunning light of Cape Cod and the luminous vision of the photographer. Meyerowitz is a contemporary master of color photography, and through his eyes small-town life on the Cape is imbued with a powerful and captivating beauty.

Now in stock! We’re Just Here for the Bad Guys by Brian Van Lau

We’re Just Here for the Bad Guys chronicles Brian Van Lau’s relationship with his estranged father. Lau’s father was absent during his childhood due to his incarceration. After his release, he rebuilt his life in Vietnam, remarried, and gradually disappeared from Lau’s life. Nearly a decade later, Lau traveled to Vietnam following his father’s sudden illness, and learned of his terminal cancer. During their final week together, they collaborated on a photographic project that documented his father’s unsuccessful path toward recovery. After his father’s passing, Lau returned to his hometown in Hawai‘i seeking closure, uncovering hidden correspondence that revealed previously unknown parts of his father’s life. Entrusted with dispersing his father’s ashes across O‘ahu, the artist began working with his grandparents to reconstruct this fragmented family history through photography.

Arriving soon: Frozen Features by Jason Fulford

For nearly thirty years, Jason Fulford has built a practice on the conviction that meaning lives less inside any single photograph than in the sequence and the things that happen around it – individual pictures forced to rhyme, echo, or collapse into dissonance against their neighbours, across books, exhibitions, publishing and performance. Frozen Features pushes that instinct one step further, into a visual language of layers randomly composed from images made between 1996 and 2026. The results are a beguiling narrative governed by composition and chance – a kind of metaphysical slot machine that scours memory and returns it two frames at a time, guided by intuition.

Fulford’s pairings bounce freely across scale, place, and chronology: the smallest coiled leaf set against a vast vista, a silhouetted hand floating across a bedspread, the scrawled markings of civilisation laid directly over landscape until each image reads like a palimpsest, something continuously written upon, older writing always surfacing beneath the new. Dry humour drifts in and out, formal echoes accumulate, and the slippery relationship between any single picture and the story collapses inside square frames abundant with detail and charged with the subliminal.

To Skip a Sinking Stone by Daniel Dorsa

Two signed copies remain online! Each one includes a small signed print, courtesy of Daniel.

Photographer Daniel Dorsa first traveled to Greenland in 2023, when he was offered access to photograph the S.I.L.A. research group. Standing for the Significance of Ice-loss to Landscapes, and named after the Inuit concept Sila—denoting both the physical world as well as a spiritual understanding of living within it—the group studies glacial melt and its downstream effects. As Dorsa returned to Greenland over the years that followed, his work gradually evolved into a journal of a place caught between preservation and transformation, where ancient rhythms meet new realities.

Serving as both a pseudo-scientific documentation and a personal record, To Skip a Sinking Stone explores how Greenland, much like the ice sheet itself, embodies deep contradictions: life-giving and life-taking, ancient and ever-changing, a source of both scientific inquiry and spiritual resonance. Rather than attempting to resolve these tensions, the work embraces them. The images reflect the complexity of a land that defies containment or simplification. In Greenland, where extremes shape both land and life, joy continues to surface even in the presence of uncertainty. The title recognizes that climate change may feel like an unavoidable reality, yet people still reach for moments of light, connection, and meaning.

Through a vibrant sequence of portraits and landscapes, both celebratory and reflective, To Skip a Sinking Stone embraces Greenland’s contradictions in a moment of profound climatic, political, and cultural transition.