Flat//Land (here): If Awoiska van der Molen can be said to have a signature photographic aesthetic, it is her mastery of tactile darks and lights, as executed in richly tonal black-and-white. In the Dutch photographer’s newest “Window Series”, she looks closely at nighttime windows found in Japan, where the glow of the interior light flows out through the gridded panes. The project includes silhouettes of plants, curtains, hanging clothes in the laundry, and other less identifiable objects, all seen in the lushness of precise carbon prints. This particular image is more subtle and geometric than some, offering hints of folds behind the frosted glass. Priced at €9750.

Flat//Land (here): Kim Boske’s recent floral images collapse as many as ten exposures into one densely layered landscape, compressing space as well as time into a single frame. The result is a garden that feels both overstuffed and unstable, the greenery unwilling to resolve itself into one impressionistic reality. Priced at €7500.

Each Modern (here): The Taiwanese artist Wu MeiChi uses layers of paper rephotography to create her bold still life collages. In this 2024 work, cut out curved earrings, a coffee cup with a strawberry jelly package top, an insect, and a purple flower come together atop window blinds and textile drapery, creating overlapped color harmonies. The underlying narrative is perhaps opaque, but it’s clear Wu is bringing a sophisticated sense of graphic design to contemporary photocollage. Priced at €2200.

Die Mauer (here): The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova provides the inspiration for this recent series of works by the Italian photographer Andrea Tonellotto. In each image, Pavlova dances atop different geometric abstractions, mixing representational and playfully abstract elements in ways similar to Moholy-Nagy’s collages. Priced at €2600.

Roslyn Oxley9 (here): Tracey Moffatt’s newest series “The Burning” brings a dark apocalyptic mood to the Australian frontier. The artist stages herself against the eerily heightened colors of the bleak burned land, like a lone survivor scraping out an existence in the unforgiving territory. In this image, the artist steps away from the scene, allowing the moon to hover over the swirlingly smoky land, the colors morphing into seethingly gritty near beauty, almost like an imposingly bleak version of the Northern Lights. Priced at €45000.

Anita Beckers (here): Sewing needles and threads are the activators in this 2024 work by Christiane Feser. Atop a crumpled paper surface, needles poke into the paper and tie together threads (generally white, with some painted black), which then cast shadows down to the paper underneath, creating layers of lines and echoes, almost like electrical wires on a topographical map. As usual, the German photographer’s aesthetics are understatedly sophisticated in their abstract illusions, seemingly always offering more visual questions than answers. Priced at €6900.

In-Dependance (here): This booth was a solo presentation of Anton Kusters’ “The Blue Sky Project”. Over roughly six years, the Belgian photographer made upward views of the sky from every known Nazi concentration camp from World War II (a total of 1078 sites in all), embossing each print with its exact geographic location (in coordinates) and the number of dead at that camp. And while the skies are universally blue, offering a sense of freedom and hope, the traumatic weight and loss of the project are heavy indeed. Kusters has displayed the work in large installations on lightboxes, but here, individual framed prints were shown, as were groups of prints mounted together. This set of 15 prints on one printed sheet was priced at €20000.

Staley-Wise Gallery (here): The overtly provocative setups of fashion photography are part and parcel of that specific image industry, but that doesn’t mean Steven Klein’s picture of a nude model swimming in a pool with a wide-eyed horse (from 2005) is an any way predictable. It’s an altogether strangely dramatic scene, enlivened by flared reflections in the water, but somehow still seductively glamorous in its over-the-top extravagance. Priced at $37000.

IBASHO (here): Tokyo Rumando’s project “Orpheus” (from 2014-2015) brings together self-portraits of the artist along with reflections in a nearby mirror; the catch is that the mirror doesn’t provide a normal reflection, but a kind of portal into other memories and ideas. This particular work plays with a sense of pose and motion, but others are more drastic in their contrasts. A decade later, the project remains powerful, with an elegant conceptual structure that allows identity to manifest itself in different ways. Priced at €1375

Bildhalle (here): Another series that continues to solidify its durable position in 21st century photography is the ongoing portraiture project of the Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens and his daughter Paula. This image (from 2018, in a less that perfect installation shot) finds Paula wearing a loose green turban made from a sweep of shiny cloth, staring out from the darkness like an Orientalist subject in a Dutch Old Masters painting. The series has included a wide range of everyday props and oddball accoutrements, leading to a consistently engaging and clever contemporary riff on the history of portraiture. The images are both impressive in their precise craftsmanship and altogether easy to appreciate. Priced at €45000.

Bendana Pinel (here): This 2024 work by Caio Reisewitz finds the Brazilian photographer continuing to expand his range of digital collage techniques, filling a constructed jungle with spirits, colors, trash heaps, and even a few tiny figures. Bold changes in scale activate this particular composition, with massive leaves interrupting the view back into the aggregated forest, with different branched sections functioning like the glittering panes of stained glass windows. Priced at €25000.

Bendana Pinel (here): The Italian photographer Niccolò Montesi has spent much of his artistic career playing with the flattening eye of a camera as applied to architectural structures. This 2024 work looks at “La Muralla Roja”, an apartment complex in Spain designed by Ricardo Bonfill known for its geometric walls and stairways. Montesi’s images flatten the geometries down into one plane, and then use gold leaf and uniform blue skies to amplify the interlocked forms and layers. Priced at €4000.

Flowers Gallery (here): This puzzlingly perforated iron by the British photographer Lisa Jahovic has undeniable echoes to Dada and Surrealist still lifes from the early 20th century. But when seen in the context of more than a dozen other similarly perforated objects that make up a larger series (she started with an apple), the concept takes on more brashly graphic modes, creating absences, see throughs, and cutouts in unexpectedly sculptural ways. Priced at £2700.

Robert Morat (here): This backyard still life by the German photographer Lia Darjes was populated by a passing bird, who triggered the shutter with its appearance. The work can be found in her well received 2024 photobook Plates I-XXXI (reviewed here), along with additional setups with intruding squirrels, mice, cats, and other animals. The project is a clever twist on the Dutch still life, energized and upended by the chance arrival of the animal kingdom. Priced at €3300.

Robert Morat (here): This angular arrangement comes from Christian Patterson’s recent project “Gong Co.”, which documents the slow demise of a family grocery store in Mississippi over the course of nearly two decades. This image creates an elegant arrangement of some toppled fruit and the criss-crossed legs of a table, along with cast shadows that further complicate the composition. Priced at €6250.

Robert Morat (here): This large print comes from Jessica Backhaus’ recent series “Plein Soleil”. Evolving onward from her 2021 series of paper cutout still lifes (reviewed in photobook form here), these new works use full sheets to create intricately nested alignments of curve and shadow. Priced at €9200.

Robert Morat (here): This work by Andrea Grützner wasn’t actually on the walls of the Robert Morat booth, but was part of a portfolio I looked through. It’s a lesser known example from the German photographer’s excellent “Erbgericht” project documenting a traditional guesthouse in eastern Germany using an array of lights and filters. Here the shadows double and triple, offering glimpses of unseen fixtures and layers of delicately colored vertical lines which confuse any sense of familiarity or memory. Priced at €3600, as in the framed size on display.

Christophe Guye (here): This booth was a retrospective solo presentation of the work of Erik Madigan Heck, mixing fashion work with other imagery. This lushly architected composition turns on the interplay of heads and hands, with the embroidered textiles adding a tactile sense of saturated richness. Priced at €16000.

Dolby Chadwick (here): This booth was a solo show of the ambrotypes of the French photographer Éric Antoine. In stacked works like this one, Antoine creates implied portraits, where books and pages of lives and memories aggregate in decaying piles tied together with string. Like Abelardo Morell’s studies of waterlogged books, Antoine’s images revel in the tactile qualities of paper, pulling flaking details out of the enveloping shadows. Priced at $7600.

Jednostka (here): Rafał Milach’s project “Strike”, as seen in his 2021 photobook (reviewed here), is destined to become a landmark of 21st century protest photography. The series mixes the close up faces of protestors during the Women’s Strike in Poland in 2020 with images of ordinary citizens watching out of their apartment windows, creating a powerful interchange between participation and supportive observation. This flash lit image of a wide-eyed young woman with crosses in her eye makeup is one of the most memorable portraits from the project, becoming even more provocative when printed large. Priced at €15000 (for the AP).

The Photographers’ Gallery (here): This 2023 collage by Gohar Dashti mixes natural imagery from Iran and America. The cutout layers (as many as five layers deep) are drawn from traditional Islamic geometries, which themselves were originally inspired by nature, creating a conceptually interlocked set of motifs, patterns, and references. Priced at €7400.