GOST Books is an independent photography and visual-arts publisher founded in London in 2012. Its programme brings together emerging artists and established photographers, with an emphasis on the individual subject and design of each publication rather than a single photographic genre.
The catalogue ranges from documentary projects and portraits to archival research and more experimental approaches to image-making. GOST describes its subjects as deliberately diverse: its books have explored belief, popular culture, environmental settings and historical collections. This breadth makes the imprint useful for readers seeking both sustained photographic narratives and unfamiliar perspectives.
Alongside its publishing programme, GOST has collaborated with the International Center of Photography on a First Photobook Award. The partnership supports previously unpublished photographers through book design, editing and distribution under the ICP/GOST imprint, together with an exhibition opportunity. Its catalogue includes standard books, signed copies and special editions; collectors should check the particular edition when comparing records.
FASHION
Sour-Puss: The Opera
Terre à l’Amende
Leave and Let Us Go
Drummies
Mischling 1
The Moon Belongs to Everyone
Found, Not Lost
I Am Warning You
Daleside
Hayal & Hakikat: A Handbook of Forgiveness & A Handbook of Punishment
Questions (After Brecht)
Paradise City
Freedom or Death
Retraced 81/19
When we lie down, grasses grow from us
Sacred Shanghai
The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows
Good Morning, America (Volume I)
Ganga Ma
Ex-Voto
Non Grata
Fables of Faubus
SPUD
Nowhere Far
Flamingo
Brisées
Hong Kong Parr
The Prospect of Immortality
Swamp
Dzhangal
Mexican Crime Photographs from the archive of Stefan Ruiz
Monochrome | Colour
Maidan – Portraits from the Black Square
Punks
Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden
Grey Skies Black Birds
UKG
Skirts
The Death of a Beautiful Subject
Mass
Chateau Despair
Defense Language
It Can Never Be The Same
Dora, Yerkwood, Walker County, Alabama
Zwischen den Jahren
The Shipping Forecast
A Handbook for Dog Walkers
POP
A Typology of British Cherry Blossom
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