One Star and a Dark VoyageIn her first monograph with TIS books, the much heralded photographer Barbara Bosworth has interwoven the visceral and ethereal to visually build a sense of the delicate and fragile nature of life, at a place where the edges of heaven and earth blur. These pictures, made with Bosworths customary 8x10 camera, speak to our connections with nature: bear paws hauntingly human, roses cut to bring beauty indoors, names carved into a tree trunk declaring

as transcendent as it is harsh

at once being built and destroyed

These are dogs that are born and die in the same place

The book Painting reveals 16 unpublished colour photographs by Toshio Shibata

subjected to the whims of men and power

due to the fine grain structure

ecstatic images of nightlife to cameraless abstractions

MA where two days prior

From Fosso’s early self-portraits in black-andwhite from the 1970s to his recent

focused and irrepressible

I wanted to confuse the image of myself with that of the trees

Larrain’s London project made an impression on Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño