Generator of innovative books, KAHL Editions is a publisher that focuses on researching unpublished contemporary artists.
Experts in layout and printing, our publications are marked by high quality finish and a dedication to providing authentic works.
RELEASED
Alice Rosati - I Am A Mermaid
Release: January 2020
"Does it really exist? This is the confusion that this five-year long adventure has distilled. The photographs of Alice Rosati are there to prove it to us. On the shores, in front of a pedestrian crossing, in a hotel room, wherever you are, the mermaid was looking for her place without finding it. With time it became the paragon of the difficulty to be in this world, and a symbol of maladjustment." — Léa Chauvel-Lévy
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Patrick Bienert - East End of Europe
Release: January 2020
"How heavy is Europe? How heavy is the burden of History? How difficult will the future be?
These are the questions posed by Patrick Bienert’s photographs. He is a inconspicuous man and observer, who almost disappears behind his camera, so that the energy of the model and the surroundings flow not towards him, but towards his camera lens. Bienert has always travelled around Georgia, a remote country on the fringes of Europe, in search of its identity. A country that, for all its rich and unique History, still seems somewhat lost in the present. The formidable faces Patrick Bienert found there are full of pride and archaic beauty, yet every cheek appears as if brushed by a breeze of futility." — Florian Illies
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Charbon - Under Book Collection #1
Release: September 2018
"These pages will spontaneously combust. Be careful. Charbon burns. Accept me as I am" - Alex Housset
Entering the intimacy of the alternative Parisian scene, CHARBON portrays a new generation of artists: authors, photographers, illustrators, performers, musicians, poets.
Kahl Editions, in collaboration with the Black New Black collective, gathered no fewer than 50 participants, all of whom play a role in shaping the creative singularity of Paris.
CHARBON is the first volume of the UNDER book collection.
CHARBON is also an experimental feature movie, including with the book.
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Julien Boudet - Bleus Visages
Release: July 2018
Following personal aesthetics over trends, Julien Boudet is known for documenting the evolution of fashion inspired by the minimalist, surrealist movements and architecture.
For his first book, Bleus Visages, Boudet decides to go back to his native city, where Bleu Mode was born. Growing up in Sète, encompassed by the Mediterranean Sea in the South of France, Julien Boudet has always had an affinity with the color blue. Through his heightened sense of time and space in collaboration with his immaculate attention to detail, Julien Boudet is capturing the local people accompanied by a text of the philosopher Jean-Louis Cianni.
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Artsi Ifrach - ARTC Piece of mind
Release: October 2017
Artsi Ifrach works in Marrakesh and creates all his pieces with a total freedom from the state of mind he has at the moment.
Being respectful of the past and the culture to bring something warmer. Vintage fabrics can match past and present. Colours and prints are his landscapes.
The process of creating each picture, starts with a piece he creates in that day, as he makes one of a kind pieces and he tries to make one of a kind pictures with them, pictures that tell stories full of feelings. He creates the whole art direction around it and the picture themselves with himself modelling.
It's very important for him to create a picture that doesn't reflect the time it has being taken and it will be memorable always.
All his pieces are to be sold in the end.
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Co-edition 'PAPIER Magazine' - #3 PROVOCATION
Release: September 2017
PAPIER was born from the love of its founders for illustration. The format (28x38cm closed) and the quality of the printing, makes it a unique object on the market.
Illustrators who have an influence and originality in contemporary illustration, from different countries, are invited to create an original artwork for the magazine.
For the 3d issue of PAPIER Magazine, KAHL Editions is glad to collaborate with Dimanche Studio.
Each issue is a new theme. The theme for PAPIER 03 is PROVOCATION.
Zuza Krajewska - Imago
Release: May 2017
‘Imago’ refers to the last phase of insect metamorphosis, a post-growth, pre-adult stage where they appear fully-formed but smaller. Zuza Krajewska’s portraits of young offenders at a custody centre near Warsaw examines this transitional period between physical maturity and full adult development. Her subjects were brought to the centre for their inability to follow the codes of society. Had they been adults, many of their crimes would have earned them a jail sentence, but the potential of growth and development to their still-childlike characters granted them an opportunity to be rehabilitated – and, one-day, reintroduced to society.
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Fumi Nagasaka - Untitled Youth
Release: October 2016
"Every person documented in this book conveys that feeling of purity. They have allowed Fumi to capture them baring their souls. What she does in turn is capture an honest representation of youth – a moment in time during adolescence when things are pure. You are not yet sure of who you are yet, or who you are going to be, and you are still experimenting with your identity.
This particular body of work celebrates that very notion: the fleeting beauty of youth. They are intimate images that convey Fumi’s unique obsession with youth and dreaming of being forever young." - Robbie Spencer
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COMING SOON
Nordine Makhloufi - Title TBC
Release: 2021
Nordine Makhloufi is a photographer born and raised in Paris who has documented his friends throughout their growth and their impact on the upcoming and changing society and viceversa. He has built a diary where friendship is at the heart of the narrative and where courage, care, pain, fun and creativity are the color palette of an amazing work of art.
Julie Joubert - Title TBC
Release: 2021
Julie Joubert met Ahmed in 2017 at a reintegration center for troubled youth. Through social media, they met two years later. Diminutive, nickname, pseudonym: MIDO is a medium for blurring the traces of his uncertain trajectory. Presenting himself under different identities in the course of his encounters, Ahmed hides as much as he wants to be discovered. Through a chaotic life path, punctuated by painful elements, he survives with the dream of becoming a model.
Serge Najjar - Title TBC
Release: TBC
"When you are looking things with a new eye, you can live again. Then you realize how powerful you can be by pushing others to see what they cannot see by themselves."
From cubism and abstract art to the avant-garde, each image determines how Serge Najjar sees things around him. Lebanon through his eye is a question about a context, an aesthetic, and our ability to redefine what we think we already know.
Sergey Ponomarev - EXODUS
Release: TBC
Since 2011, one million people have reached Europe, forced to flee from war and violence. They are mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are more than twenty five million refugees in the world. Internally displaced people amount to forty five million. That’s the highest number ever. War and violence force one person every three seconds to flee.
“We must go!” That’s what I heard everywhere. “We must go!” That’s what I heard in the war.
Sergey Ponomarev, a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, followed refugees on their way to Western Europe.
Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello - Ghost Echoes
Release: TBC
"Japan begins and ends
with Japan.
Nobody else knows the
story.
… Japanese dust
In the Milky Way."
This first edition by the duo, Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, portrays a wild Guinevere Van Seenus through Japan.
Taking a woman out of her contest, playing with her body through the different surroundings, using clothing and make up as an adaptation of where she is and what she feels.
A journey, a diary made of an intimate series of images documenting Guinevere through Sofia&Mauro's eyes.
Christelle de Castro - Boys and Girls
Release: TBC
Text: Laura Albert
In de Castro's Boys and Girls toward the close of the bookn, alsmost a postscript, Genesis P-Orridge gazes out, a war-weary glorious ruler. Genesis' words thread through all these photos: "Some feel like a man trapped in a woman's body, others like a woman trapped in a man's body. The Pandrogyne says, 'I just feel trapped in a body.'"
Aliocha Boi - MEMENTO
Release: TBC
"My work is the result fortuitous encounters, daily explorations and a true fascination of the human", the French-Canadian-Italien photographer Aliocha Boi tells us. To realise MEMENTO (Remember, in Italien), he travelled to Bari Sardo, a coastal village from Sardinia. "I talked to several old people who had many stories to tell. I eventually chose to focus on my grand-mother. I wanted to immerse the audience in a timeless place, where fantasy would take over." — Fish Eye Magazine
