Powerful, vividly chromatic portraits of African identity and the Western fantasy of cultural otherness Accompanying the first solo exhibition of Swiss Guinean artist Namsa Leuba (born 1982) in the United States, Crossed Looksfeatures Leuba's major projects to date, including photography series in Guinea, South Africa, Nigeria and Benin, and the debut of a new series recently made in Tahiti. The exhibition and publication consider how Leuba's photographic practice explores the representation of African identity and the cultural Other in the Western imagination. Over 90 photographs inspired by the visual culture and ceremonies of West Africa, contemporary fashion and design, and the history of photography and its colonizing gaze present Leuba's unique perspective that straddles reality and fantasy. Through the adaptation of myths attributed to the Other, Leuba's photographs acknowledge this double act of looking, a dialogue of global cultures. The essays included in the book examine the nuanced themes of identity and representation in Leuba's multiple bodies of work.

Maske is an album of Phyllis Galembo's powerful and thrilling masquerade photographs, from Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Zambia, and Haiti. Introduced by art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu, Galembo's pictures describe traditional masqueraders and carnival characters and are themselves works of vivid artistic imagination.

When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed. This is a horrifically visceral exploration of pure evil committed by depraved, twisted humans

"Twisted tales master David Hine returns to the grueling world of Garth Ennis' survival horror Crossed with a story from the early days of the outbreak. When a Japanese mobster's daughter is trapped at a cosplay convention on C-Day, the criminals learn the hard way that in a Crossed world it doesn't matter how tough you are...just how fast you run! And Justin Jordan locks us in our nightmares with a visceral tale that takes us to Federal Prison. Jesse Bullock is not a good man, but a very hard man. Down for armed robbery and assault, the only crimes they were able to prove, he has but one good quality: he loves his cousin Otis. When they end up imprisoned at the same jail, Jesse intentionally gets himself denied parole to make sure he's there to protect Otis, who isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. But that job gets much harder when the Crossed spread inside those escape-proof walls!" --

A sixteen-year-old girl wakes up as someone else and finds herself hunted. Can she get her body back before he kills her? A recurring nightmare becomes more when Bette, an average sixteen-year-old, is suddenly thrown into a life that doesn't belong to her. The dark mysterious stranger on a mission from heaven seeks vengeance for his brother and mistakenly crosses the minds of the innocent with the guilty. In this fast-paced short novel Bette struggles to find her way back to herself and back home with the aid of an unsuspecting friend. Can she reclaim her life when the other girl wants to keep it?

TV and Screenwriter Christos Gage returns to the grueling world of Garth Ennis' Crossed with a vengeance. Fans favorite Alpha-Crossed Smokey has returned and he's on the mission he began back in the legendary "Quisling" story arc. Driven by a powerful controlled cruelty, Smokey discovers a survivalist bunker and forces a desperate man to help him do the unthinkable...create a new Crossed civilization and city called "Smokeyville." But how long can even a creature like Smokey hold the murderous Crossed to his will before they turn upon each other? It's the ultimate sociological experiment amidst the wreckage of civilization. There is no equal to the terror and depravity within the pages of Crossed. It is simply the most terrifying uncensored horror comic book being published. This volume collects issues #93 - 100 of the ongoing Crossed: Badlands series.

A startling debut volume, the latest in Chris Abani's Black Goat Poetry Series.

Every Breath We Drew examines the intersection between private, individual identity and the search for intimate connection with others.

An up-close portrayal of late-'90s London's many music scenes, from the pages of Sleazenation and beyond In the late 1990s, as a graduate from art school, the British photographer Ewen Spencer began making pictures for Sleazenation, in particular for the infamous listing pages at the rear of the magazine that were called Savoir Vivre. The images were made in both black and white and color, and were immensely candid and full of characters that seemed to be everywhere at that time. London was at the epicenter of a cultural boom in this period. Small clubs, parties and discos were plentiful in venues from North to South, and Spencer was in a minicab and night bus taking in all the scenes--from Northern Soul, Acid House, Jungle and Garage to Nu Metal, South London blackout clubs and more. Spencer captures an era filled with love, lust and messy authenticity. Ewen Spencer (born 1971) graduated from the University of Brighton in 1997 and began shooting for style magazines such as Sleazenation and The Face, with an emphasis on youth culture. In 2004 his series Teenagers was shortlisted for the Project Assistance award at Rencontres D'Arles, curated that year by Martin Parr, who tipped Spencer as "one to watch." In 2013 he began self-publishing a biannual photo-zine, Guapamente focusing on global youth subcultures. Spencer has also made documentaries on Britain's Garage and Grime scenes. His monograph Young Love was published by Stanley Barker in 2017.

Photographs of paintings and sculpture from the 2012 exhibition Aggie Zed: Keeper's keep at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, South Carolina. Includes artist interview.