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We are beyond grateful to announce that IN PRAISE OF SHADOW by Tomasz Kawecki is now available and shipping via our website, after premiering at Fundacja Alina. IN PRAISE OF SHADOW represents Tomasz Kaweckis most recent photographic endeavor. Utilizing his distinct approach to the medium, the viewer is confronted with a profound study of the natural world and the shadows it inevitably casts. Beneath our clouded and accustomed perception of the material world, Tomasz Kawecki assumes the existence of a shadow realm, untouched by human appropriation. A hiding place for animistic and primordial beliefs that is still unexplored in a world that is otherwise measured and exploited. Edition of 500. 29x22cm. 80 pages. Swiss bound. Ships in March. Editing by Tomasz Kawecki, Jakub Szachnowski, Aleksandra Przybysz and Michał Łuczak. Design by Jakub Szachnowski. Text by Aleksandra Przybysz. Drawings by Mikołaj Stachańczyk. Translation by Daria Izworska. Patronage: Alina Foundation and Mia Gallery. ® RUST Publishing 2024. Now Shipping.

We are thrilled to share with you @andrea.koesters first monograph, the newest addition to the RUST lineup that we couldn’t be more grateful for and that we were fortunate enough to launch at this years installment of @polycopies already. ORACLE reveals the wild expanses of southern Arizona’s desert. Tracing time and memory that unpack its layered identity, the work looks closely at the natural world and the subtle rhythms that shape this extraordinary landscape. Rooted in a small town in southern Arizona, ORACLE portrays a landscape where rural dwellings, desert terrain, and natural beings run wild, continually unveiling its cryptic history. The project traces the geology, people and animals that make up the Southwestern desert and carve out its layered identity. Developed over six years, the work embraces the cyclical nature of life and death and the fragile balance required to endure a life in the Sonoran Desert. Through phases of grief and tenderness, the work returns to the same locations in the Sonoran Desert over extended periods, revealing subtle contrasts in terrain and life cycles that might otherwise go unnoticed. At its core, the project examines how time and communities leave their mark on the land and its inhabitants. The imagery highlights deep connections between people and place, illustrating themes of endurance, resilience, and adaptation within an unforgiving environment. ORACLE looks closely at the deeper narratives that shape the artists understanding of this extraordinary desert landscape — revealing not only its visible terrain but also the memory and subtle rhythms of life that will always remain. 22x26cm, Garda Piat Kiara 150g and Pergraphica stormy gray. Bichromatic offset printed. Canvas cover with dry stamp. Swiss bound. Photography — Andrea Koesters Editing — Daria Izworska, Jakub Szachnowski, Heiner L. Beisert Design — Jakub Szachnowski Poem — J. Michael Yates DTP - Tomasz Kawecki Edition of 200. © 2025 RUST Publishing US market orders will be available for shipping from the USA after 15th of January 2026.

Presenting RUST Publishings most recent addition to the family. Thomas Bergners @thomas.bergner - You Are All I See is an eclectic study of his approach to disappear in the photographic process, demanding utmost appreciation for the photographers role as an hermit that staggers off into the night, working on the fringes — where light fades to darkness, where the pitch black night makes way for just a gleam to break through its cover. Completed by a contribution of words from Giulia Cramm @giulia_cramm , RUST is delighted to announce that You Are All I See is available now through our Webshop, as well as in person via Thomas Bergners latest show at Kunstkontor Nürnberg. Photography and editing by Thomas Bergner. Design, Prepress and DTP by Jakub Szachnowski @jakub.szachnowski Text by Giulia Cramm. Patronage from Zumikon Kulturstiftung. Edition of 300. 54 Pages. 20x14cm. You Are All I See is also available as a highly limited collectors box, that we are delighted to announce for the first time ever. The handmade collector boxes, produced by Dominik Wojciechowski @dw_bookbinder , include a copy of the book as well as three 25x20cm archival pigment prints. Now available on our website as well as directly through Thomas Bergner and his representation.

The ‘Sun Archive and Friends’ section features a dozen or so Polish imprints and artists, and we’ll be introducing them to you over the next few days. Today we’re starting with a young and dynamic label from Kraków: RUST Publishing! RUST is an independent artistic and publishing collective led by Jakub Szachnowski, Heiner L. Beisert and Daria Izworska, focused on exploring contemporary forms of visual narrative, with a particular emphasis on photography and the visual arts. The Hawk. Jakub Szachnowski is a visual artist and the founder of Rust Publishing. His interdisciplinary practice spans photography, video, installation, documentary film, mapping, and scenography. In The Hawk, Szachnowski departs from conventional documentary to construct a poetic, experiential study of place, developed during an immersive residency in a rural Slovakian school where falconry forms part of the curriculum. The project unfolds as a topographic and perceptual inquiry, exploring human engagement with the environment and shifting boundaries between the real and the imagined. book signing 15 May | Friday: 6:00 pm / Jakub Szachnowski “The Hawk” God’s Children — Daria Izworska Daria Izworska is a visual artist based between Kraków and Bristol.Her practice explores disability, psychological control, and relationality through mixed visual media and embodied methods. Drawing from personal history, God’s Children examines the lasting impact of growing up within a radical religious community. Working with family archives, staged re-enactments, and photographed artefacts, the artist revisits structures of fear and indoctrination, revealing the weight of psychological conditioning and a shifting negotiation of personal agency under the relentless presence of the All-Seeing. book signing 17 May / Sunday: 3:00 pm / Daria Izworska “God’s Children” The participation of Polish artists and publishers at Photo London 2026 is supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Institute in London. Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Republic of Poland. Sun Archive and Friends Olympia, London. 13th - 17th May 2026 Booth: P14 design by @ataga_bispuk

Sun Archive and Friends: the most intriguing Polish photobooks The Polish publishing scene will also have a strong presence at Photo London. „Sun Archive and Friends” booth will bring together independent publishers and artists for whom the photobook is the primary medium of their work! These include: Sun Archive, Outer Space Press, RUST Publishing, Bored Wolves, Pix.House, Blow Up Press, Wydawnictwo MCK, Jednostka, Syreny i Glonojady, Ela Polkowska, Joanna Szpak Ostachowska and Agata Kadenacy – communities that combine photography with design, archives and editorial experimentation. Their publications are often produced in short runs, balancing between the art book and the object, and circulate in parallel within galleries, festivals and private collections. Among the projects on display will be Michał Łuczak’s ‘Extraction’ – a visual narrative about Upper Silesia, where the landscape, architecture and daily life are marked by the consequences of decades of coal mining. Alongside this will be experimental publications by RUST Publishing and projects by Outer Space Press, which employ found images, archives and printing errors as a deliberate artistic strategy. The participation of Polish artists and publishers at Photo London 2026 is supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Institute in London. Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Republic of Poland. Photo London 2026 Sun Archive and Friends Olympia, London. 13th - 17th May 2026 Booth: P14 book signing at Sun Archive and Friends 14 May | Thursday: 2:00 pm / Łukasz Rusznica „All Empires Will Fall” 3:00 pm / Monika Orpik „Stepping Out Into This Almost Empty Road” 15 May | Friday: 4:00 pm / Ela Polkowska „Splinter” 5:00 pm / Magdalena Wysocka & Claudio Pogo books from Outer Space Press 6:00 pm / Jakub Szachnowski „The Hawk” 16 May | Saturday: 2:00 pm / Weronika Gęsicka “Encyclopaedia” 3:00 pm / Michalina Kacperak “Soft Spot” 4:00 pm / Michał Łuczak „Extraction” 5:00 pm / Studio Prokopiou „Wet Paint” 17 May / Sunday: 3:00 pm / Daria Izworska „God’s Children” design by @ataga_bispuk

RUST Publishing at Photo London 2026 @photolondonfair This year, we will be present at Photo London together with SUNARCHIVE / Archiwum Słońca @sunarchivebooks and friends. Our books will be available at their booth, and we will be there for two book signing sessions throughout the fair. 15 May / Friday / 6:00 PM Jakub Szachnowskijj @jakub.szachnowski 17 May / Sunday / 3:00 PM Daria Izworska @izworks See you again in London

Our new website is now live! Together with the launch, we’re releasing three new books - now available online. Over the coming days, we’ll introduce each title in more detail. "God’s Children" by Daria Izworska @izworks . "My parents were followers of the Church when I was born; my father was a pastor and most of my family had been converted. We left the Church when I was twelve. This work is my return to the experience of growing up in a radical religious community and its lasting impact. Working with family archives, staged reenactments and photographed artefacts, I unveil the structures of indoctrination, revealing the layers of psychological conditioning. Unfolding over time, the project documents my negotiation of personal agency in relation to the relentless presence of the All-Seeing." Now available at: stpublishing.cc

The photobook God’s Children examines the lasting impact of growing up within a radical religious community. Is the result of a long process and fully came into being at @itfopava under the guidance of @janbrykczynski . It is now being published by @rustpublishing , after years of work and late night conversations. This has been a huge journey, and it would not have happened without the support and encouragement of so many people dear to me.

Svijet means literally „world” and it is the title of one of our upcoming publications made by @dominikwojciechowski . It had been also a title of the well known lifestyle magazine in Former Yugoslavia. It used to build collective belonging in the nation that has lasted long after it disappeared from the maps. Shutdown of the magazine as well as the death of Tito became a symbolic metaphor of the end of Yugoslavia. Since then it slowly was eaten by its inside powers and antagonisms. You will read more about it in the book. The book is handmade by @dw_bookbinder and is part of the three upcoming books published by @rustpublishing alongside with @jakub.szachnowski “The Hawk” and @izworks “God’s Children”.

In his work Svijet, Dominik Wojciechowski examines Yugonostalgia and post-Yugoslav identity as oppositional, ongoing conditions, exploring how the legacies of socialist Yugoslavia continue to shape the collective imagination. The work captures both the lingering presence of shared history and the tensions of living in newly formed national contexts, revealing how nationalisms and social change converge to form layered subjectivities across the former Yugoslav region. Svijet is part of the premiere of three books by @rustpublishing together with “God’s’ Children” by @izworks and “The Hawk” by @jakub.szachnowski Follow @rustpublishing to get the latest info about the books.

Drawing from personal history, Daria Izworska examines the lasting impact of growing up within a radical religious community. Working with family archives, staged re-enactments, and photographed artefacts, she revisits structures of fear and indoctrination, revealing the weight of psychological conditioning. Unfolding over time, the work documents a shifting negotiation of personal agency in relation to the relentless presence of the All-Seeing. The photobook God’s Children will soon be available on our new website.

After launching our handmade collectors’ print run at @thephotographersgallery in London, the photobooks God’s Children, Svijet and The Hawk will soon be available for regular purchase on our new website. Coming soon | April 26' #bookrelease #photobook