GOST Books

22/05/2026

"In a black and white photograph, a smiling girl stands against a pale wall, her hair fanned out around her head like a dark crown. The hair extends in every direction, held in place by unseen hands, the image like nothing else in contemporary photography..."

Thank you to Musée Magazine for the review of 'Las Pelilargas' by Irina Werning. Read on to learn more:

https://museemagazine.com/features/2026/3/6/book-review-las-pelilargas-by-irina-werning-gost-Art Bookstore MuFo

Werning spent 18 years crossing Latin America to photograph hair. The result is a book that understands something most photography misses. The sacred doesn’t always announce itself.

18/05/2026

Photographer Paul Reas has a long association with Newport, spanning almost forty years. His exhibition, ‘Fables of Faubus, Made in Newport’, is now open at THE EYE International Photography Festival in Newport, Wales and is selection of photographs from his book and touring exhibition that were all made in Newport. These include pictures from his days as a student up to more contemporary images.⁠

The book, 'Fables of Faubus', was published in 2017 by GOST and the exhibition of the same name is currently in Nantes at Center Claude Cahun as a part of the exhibition's tour of France.⁠
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The book and exhibition represent’s Reas’ photographic career, spanning almost forty years. This was a career which started in Newport when Reas became a student on the Documentary Photography course there in 1982. His involvement with the course extended way beyond his two years as a student however. He was the course technician for many years and then a visiting tutor before returning full time in 2007 and eventually becoming the course leader. Throughout this time Paul was committed to making his own work, alongside his many assignments for leading magazines. His personal projects were published as books and included in exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Many of the photographs made for these books and exhibitions over the years were made in Wales.⁠
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Paul will also be in conversation on Wednesday (20 May) with Diane Smyth, Val Williams and Maisie Cousins at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol, UK.⁠
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Find out more about both events here: https://gostbooks.com/blogs/news/paul-reas-fables-of-faubus-made-in-newport-opens-in-wales

01/05/2026

ICP Photobook Fest is back on May 8-9 in New York City!
We look forward to sharing our new titles with you alongside 70+ publisher tables at ICP in the Lower East Side, along with programmes and book signings. Find out more here:

ICP Photobook Fest is back on May 8-9 in New York City. We look forward to sharing our new titles with you alongside 70+ publisher tables at ICP in the Lower East Side, along with programs and book signings. Get tickets here We have three signings during ICP Book Fest: Melonie Beckett, Holy Cow!, Fr...

27/04/2026

"I photograph the world I know. I am an insider and these are the relationships and people I love. Sometimes they torment me and the way they live torments me too. But I have a camera, a shield of protection and self-defense, which can quickly pivot to a tool of access during the most intimate, private moments"

This weekend Melonie Bennett shared a special excerpt from 'Holy Cow!' in the Observer. The book launches this May. Read on here: https://observer.co.uk/culture/photography/article/my-family-and-other-animals

26/04/2026

Today marks 40 years since the Chernobyl Disaster.⁠
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'Chernobyl' by Pierpaolo Mittica is a document of the communities who inhabit and pass through the exclusion zone—an area covering approximately 2600 km2 around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster of 1986. Mittica first journeyed to Chernobyl in 2002, drawn like many to photograph the impact of the worst technological catastrophe of the modern era. He returned many times and rather than focusing on the ruins and relics, sought to tell the stories of those he encountered in this unique place.⁠
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Learn more here: https://gostbooks.com/products/chernobyl
📷༘ Pierpaolo Mittica

25/04/2026

"When I had the chance to do the book, I wanted to give back my own reflections about what it means to experience war. I wanted to give the reader the possibility of going from one page to another page without knowing if you are in Ukraine or you are in Iraq or in Afghanistan—the feeling that despite the time and the countries, the experiences of the human condition during war are the same"

Weekend reading: Brendan Embser speaks to Emanuel Satolli about 'That Thing That Never Vanished'.

The photojournalist Emanuele Satolli speaks about ten years of documenting war and conflict in his book "That Thing That Never Vanished."

21/04/2026

Join us on 14 May at 7pm at The Hellenic Centre in London where Katerina Angelopoulou will be in conversation about her latest book with Stuart Smith, Publisher, GOST Books. ⁠
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'The Fumes of Mars' looks at the 2018 Mati wildfire near Athens — one of the deadliest in recorded history. On 23 July 2018 wildfires swept through Mati, Greece, 30 kilometres from Athens. Over 100 lives were lost and victims were left to fight for survival alone. Artist Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire, fleeing with her three-year-old child. ⁠
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The book acts as a counter-archive — a forensic and deeply personal investigation into how official narratives of catastrophe are constructed and enforced. It brings together Angelopoulou’s photographs taken during and after the disaster, survivor testimonies, aerial maps marking where each victim died, weather reports, CCTV footage and personal artefacts recovered from the ruins: jewellery, books, glasses. The work challenges the official narrative, one that persists and blames residents and victims.⁠
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A Q&A will follow the presentation. ⁠
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Book here: https://gostbooks.com/blogs/news/the-fumes-of-mars-by-katerina-angelopoulou-at-the-hellenic-centre

19/04/2026

"The shy eldest child of a riotous brood, Melonie Bennett grew up on a dairy farm in Gorham, Maine. While her father spread manure on fields bordering her classmates’ homes and her brother and sister ran wild, she found her way into the high school darkroom..."

BLIND Magazine previews her upcoming book 'Holy Cow!' which is out in May.

Take a peek into Melonie's life between 1990 and 2011, where sixty-six black-and-white images that emerged form the tragicomic chronicle of a family grappling with quintessentially American social pressures.

Read more here: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/welcome-to-the-bennetts-where-chaos-is-a-family-affair/

15/04/2026

‘A stroll to the end of the beach in Positano took me to this couple holding hands on the seashore. I love the way that simple gesture says it all’⁠
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Congratulations to Marina Sersale whose new book 'Liminal Space' is coming next month and was today previewed in the Guardian! See the full photo story here:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/apr/15/marina-sersale-black-and-white-in-pictures
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'Liminal Space' was first conceived as Marina wandered her native city of Rome. The result is a series of dramatic black-and-white images of people, sights and scenes; a personal document of the world around her.

06/04/2026

This week on BBC Radio 4's 'This Cultural Life' award-winning photographer Don McCullin talks to John Wilson about his cultural influences and formative experiences.
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The broadcast is on the occasion of two concurrent exhibitions currently on show in the UK by McCullin, at The Holburne Museum, Bath, and Hauser and Wirth, Somerset as well as our recent and coinciding publication 'The Roman Conceit'⁠
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Visit this link to tune in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002tbzn
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Photograph from the 2023 GOST publication 'Life, Death and Everything in Between'. A mother with her new pram and baby in the steel town of Consett, County Durham, England, 1974 © Don McCullin.