We are thrilled to announce that The Drawer by Vince Aletti has been shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards in the PhotoBook of the Year category! American critic and curator Vince Aletti has been collecting photographs printed on the pages of magazines and books since the 1970s in an antique flat file in his East Village apartment. The 75 multi-layered compositions created by Aletti and presented in The Drawer are a celebration of the beauty of photography and the printed page, as well as testimony of the author's unique ability to voice the complexity and variety of desire, personal and collective histories, and the power of art to reflect and shape who we are. Thank you to the Aperture team and the jury members Deirdre Donohue, Alex Lin, Lesley A. Martin; Renée Mussai, and Anna Planas. We still have copies of The Drawer available for order in the UK and North America, as well as Special Edition copies available in Europe. Visit our shop via the link in bio🔗

🎉We are excited to announce that The Drawer by Vince Aletti is one of five books awarded the 2023 Books & Others Prize!  Thank you to @ica_milano and the jury members @barbara_casavecchia, @silvifranceschini, @est_elle_hoy____ and Cally Spooner for selecting The Drawer alongside publications by @books.bruno, @moussemagazine, @nero_editions and @humboldtbooks.  We still have copies of The Drawer available for order in the UK and North America, as well as Special Edition copies available in Europe. Visit our shop via the link in bio 🔗.

Opening tomorrow from 7pm-9pm at @spbhspacemilan! Existential Boner by Mahalia Taje Giotto @taje_1311 Existential Boner is a work about obsessions. Obsessions related to desires, sexuality, the body, and gender identity. Mahalia Taje Giotto has gone through several phases of physical transformation – from writing on their skin as a child, to tattoos when they came of age, to eating disorders as an adolescent – until the process of gender affirmation in 2020. This identity journey lies at the heart of their work, and is embedded in a constant interplay of overlapping images to express an incessant inner movement. Spray-painted lettering, added to photographs, becomes for Giotto a tool for resignifying, emphasizing, and – sometimes – censoring their own body, in a radical and spontaneous gesture in which risk-taking becomes strength. Through a sculptural approach to the photographic medium – understood as a reflection of bodily changes – the artist explores their own desires and the fluidity of their identity, while providing visibility to the trans community to which they belong. SPBH Space Via Venini 26 Milan

SPBH Editions at LAABF 2023 . We are excited to announce two new releases, Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown by @kim.beil and THE VALLEY a void by Vanessa Roveto, will be available to purchase for the first time at LA Art Book Fair 2023 this weekend! Head to Artbook's table  (J14) and Image Text Ithaca's table (G15) to pick up your advance copies.  Both books will be available for purchase in our shop from October. Hours & Location Thursday 10 August: 6–9pm Friday 11 August: 1–7pm Saturday 12 August: 11am –7pm Sunday 13 August: 11am–6pm The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 N Central Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012 . SPBH Editions Events . Book Signing with Kim Beil for Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown @artbookhwla Table / J14  Friday 11 August: 3pm  . Image, Text, Abjection, Beauty with Whitney Hubbs, Emma Kemp and Vanessa Roveto Presented by @cornellmfa_imagetext The Classroom Sunday 13 August: 5pm

Image Text Ithaca Press and SPBH Editions are thrilled to announce the forthcoming first release of our Novellas series, THE VALLEY, A VOID by #vanessaroveto 💧 💧 World-weary 19-year-old Madeline works part-time at Whole Foods and spends the rest of the time thinking her ‘important little thoughts,’ as her mother calls them. Her wildly isolated life uncannily mirrors that of disgraced poetry professor, Victoria. On converging paths, these desperately sad but hysterically funny heroines blunder through a landscape of grief, self-loathing, love, and pharmaceuticals. A tragicomic hallucination of two women trying not to disappear into the psychic phantasmagoria of their families, the void of the San Fernando Valley, and most urgently—themselves. Cover artwork by @simonekearneystudio 💧 💧

Text and Image: Slideshow/Reading with Catherine Taylor and Nicholas Muellner / 📅 Friday, June 9th at 6:30pm 📍 Micamera Bookstore, Via Medardo Rosso 19, 20159 Milano / This Friday American authors Catherine Taylor and Nicholas Muellner will present their latest image-text works in a slideshow reading. The reading will be followed by a Q&A. In their books, Image Text Music and Lacuna Park, Taylor and Muellner re-imagine the essay as a journey through the contemporary visual and literary landscape, drawing piercing and pleasurable insights from intimate personal, historical, erotic and emotional experience.

✨ THE DRAWER SPECIAL EDITION✨ Only 100 copies available. This exclusive edition showcases a tantalizing secret cover and comes enclosed in a sleek black plastic bag, reminiscent of the iconic concealment bags used at newsstands for adult magazines. Each bag is individually numbered and personally signed by the author Vince Aletti. Don't miss out on this provocative collector's item!

First 10 sales at £80 then £100! Only available in Europe and the U.K.

Sneak Peek 👀 Say Yes by @josephdeslercosta (SPBH Editions, September 23) 🏍 design by @brianpaullamotte

It’s Fashion, Baby! Opening: 27 May, 19-21 Follows DJ set at Bar Giada Presented by SPBH and @garbagecore_ , It's Fashion, Baby! is a program that explores the art of upcycling and cultivates a community centered around sustainable fashion practices. Curated by @federico_bardelli and @giudittanzi, this event invites you to embark on a journey of creativity and environmental consciousness. Still few slots for the free sewing workshop, apply through the link in bio. We will transform old clothes into a collective work that will invade SPBH Space. The lab will be open on May 25-26 from 12:00 to 20:00 and on May 27 from 11:00 to 17:00 at Via Venini 26. SPBH Space Via Venini 26 Milano

Come check out our books at the 2023 ICP Photobook Fest this weekend from 12-14 May on @artbook | D.A.P’s table! / Hours & Location ✒️Catherine Taylor book signing for Image Text Music Saturday 13 May: 3pm ✒️Vince Aletti book signing for The Drawer Sunday 14 May: 1 pm ICP, 79 Essex St, New York City / 🎟️ Book your ticket via @icp

This week we'll be attending BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair at Tai Kwun! The book fair brings together over 80 exhibitors, including publishers, artists, booksellers, and organizations. In addition, there will be a programme of talks, workshops, displays, projects, and performances. We will be on Table 10! / Hours & Location Friday 28 April: 3–7 pm Saturday 29 April: 12–7 pm Sunday 30 April: 12–7 pm Monday 1 May: 12–7 pm 1/F Galleries (JC Contemporary & F Hall), Tai Kwun, Central, Hong Kong / Talk Sites of Longing: Self Publish, Be Happy Sunday 30 April: 4.30 pm Hannah Dunsmore @hannahdunsmore, project manager at Self Publish, Be Happy, will discuss the facilitation of publishing photobooks with artists. The talk will touch upon the conceptualisation and process of transforming photographic works into the form of a book, and storytelling in and of contemporary living conditions. The talk is moderated by Chloe Chow.

Motlatsi: Visualization of Landscape and Rituals on Basotho Blankets AOUMM + Giovanna Silva Opening: Saturday 15 April, 18-21 / Motlatsi: Visualization of Landscape and Rituals on Basotho Blankets, a collaborative project between architecture studio AOUMM and photographer Giovanna Silva, focuses on the complex history of the Basotho blanket, a national emblem in Lesotho that remains central to every rite of passage, from childbirth to marriage to burial ceremonies, and everything else in between. Each blanket is decorated with stylized drawings taken from a palimpsest of petroglyphs, architectural motifs, and historical events, which take on life when folded and wrapped around people’s shoulders. In Lesotho, to wear a blanket is to wear a fragment of the country’s landscape and history. / The exhibition will coincide with Salone del Mobile Milano 2023 / SPBH Space Via Venini 26 Milano