Joseph Desler Costa - Say Yes hoxton mini press

Joseph Desler Costa - Say Yes hoxton mini pressSPBH 2023 In Say Yes, artist Joseph Desler Costa reimagines possibilities of the photobook form within a visually melodic and lyrical meditation on desire and visual seduction. Inspired by the persuasions of mass media and consumer culture, Costa folds commercialism inward while inviting viewers to consider how the aesthetics of visual advertising underlie contemporary life. Costas images form a part critique and part embrace of such promises, and the

I think of this time of day as “the shadow’s veil”

The coastal landscapes of Hokkaido serve as the backdrop for his profoundly dark and impressionistic photographs of ominous flocks of crows

The work combines several photographic techniques and approaches: Staiger and Uchtmann have made photographs on the film sets of German crime series

cells are made to look like dormitory rooms

When Enri Canaj and his family emigrated from Albania to Greece

He rose to prominence in the early 1990s with Living Room and has since become known for his unfiltered depictions of people and places

Appendix featuring crucial texts and speeches about Brexit and EU-UK relations

and landscape becomes a ‘material for producing many selves

Berlin 1945-1946

a landscape under the snow

the book offers both an accessible introduction and a detailed

Today there are the obvious ironies – sprawl