Books/Publications

 

Lua Mater

In August 2024 EDITION tunnel19 is publishing my four-volume work "Lua Mater". My photo book project concludes a long-term cycle of works and combines photographic, graphic and sculptural works with essays.

Martin Kesting: Lua Mater
Berlin 2024. 21×21 cm. 288 pages.
EDITION tunnel19.
4 volumes in a slipcase.
282 fig. & essays
ISBN 978-3-949491-00-9
40 €/Sfr

 

 

Mythography III

Two of my photos were also published in the third issue of "Mythography" dealing with the godesses Diana, Minerva and Ceres.
https://www.exhibitaround.com/bookshop/en/exhibit-around-projects/98-mythography_vol_03.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNe2DYZLqWE

 

 

71% The State of Water

My series „Sara-la-Kali“ was published in the photographic volume „71 % State of Water“. It is dedicated to water, an element that covers 71% of the earth's surface. A photographic and editorial project that pays homage to the essential element of life in all its forms.
https://www.exhibitaround.com/en/books/71-the-state-of-water/#: :text=71%25%20represents%20the%20percentage%20of,all%20life%20forms%20on%20earth.

 

 

Tabula Rasa (Catalogue) 2022

Plato already called the soul of a newborn human being a blank slate, which only fills up in the course of life with ideas that are conveyed through the various senses. The reverse process of completely erasing something, of destroying it so that nothing remains, is what the expression “making tabula rasa” refers to. Emptiness, new beginnings, erasure.
https://tunnel19.home.blog/1723-2/

 

 

Mythography 2022

At Trieste Photo Days 2022 two photos from my series "Seeing Things" were chosen for the publication „Mythography II“. My work was published together with works of Nino Migliori, Alain Schroeder and Viet Van Tran.

https://www.exhibitaround.com/en/mythography-vol-ii-fotografi-selezionati-copertina-e-migliori-autori/

 

 

Mythography and Tales of the Unwritten 2021

At Trieste Photo Days 2021 the editorial project „Mythography“ was published. I am proud that my series „Lua Mater“ was chosen and that my work was published together with some of the best photojournalists among them Francesco Cito, Ron Haviv and Giles Clarke. At the same festival photos of my series „Seeing Things“ was published in a streetphotography book named "Tales of the Unwritten".
https://www.exhibitaround.com/bookshop/en/exhibit-around-projects/62-mythography-vol-01.html https://www.exhibitaround.com/bookshop/en/exhibit-around-projects/24-tales-of-the-unwritten.html

 

 

The Wheel 2020

A trip to the Himalayas and South East Asia to work on a book in 2016. It became a meditation on transience and mortality. Inner and outer journeys in four chapters: Circling Around Places of Power, Transition Rites, Politics and Religion, Drama and Martial Arts.
“A compelling body of work” (LensCulture)
Urban Book Award 2020 (Shortlisted)
Prix de la Photographie de Paris 2021, Bronze Medal

https://www.amazon.de/Wheel-Martin-Kesting/dp/3000665382/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=martin+kesting&qid=1618063856&sr=8-1 https://px3.fr/winners/px3/2021/12106/

 

 

Genius Loci (Catalogue) 2020

What makes a place special? What is its aura, its character? Which spirit lives in it? In Roman times, the atmosphere of a place was attributed to the work of a protective spirit, the respective genius loci. Today its place has been taken by the spirit of people and their history, which have influenced the appearance and radiance of a place.
https://tunnel19.home.blog/138-2/ausstellung/ https://tunnel19.home.blog/138-2/ausstellung/seeing-things/

 

 

Monkey Mind 2018

Buddha described our mind as a cage full of wild monkeys. Jumping, screaming and making faces ceaselessly. All of them demand our unrestricted attention. The name of the biggest and loudest monkey is: Fear.
Booklet published in 2018. Text Petra Blank.

 

 

Bild-Text-Form (Catalogue) 2019

When photography and text come together, a multi-layered relationship is created in which image and text potentiate each other and make each other visible, reflect and stimulate in the most diverse ways. On the third level, the form, the image breaks through its two-dimensionality and the work gains a depth that goes beyond the purely visual
https://exhibit.photocentrum.de/bildtextform/

 

 

Neuköllne, má lásko (Host Magazin 5/2019)

Původní reportáž (nejen) z berlins „konečné stanice“ Neukölln. “Neuköllne, má lásko!” Reportage Lenka Kesting; Fotografie Martin Kesting, Host Magazin 5/2019
https://casopishost.cz/