DISKO BAY

DISKO BAY Disko Bay is an independent photobook publisher based in Copenhagen

“This book is a testament to life in hospital—the physical place to which you are sent when ill. This is where I spend m...
07/08/2025

“This book is a testament to life in hospital—the physical place to which you are sent when ill. This is where I spend much of my time. But above all, it is about me, Frida. I turn the camera to myself not only because I am often alone, but because my sick body, with its scars, metal implants and all its fragility, is the landscape I know best. It is my specialty.”

Excerpt from the foreword of ‘Frida Forever’ by .lisa. Grab the book on our website today shipping worldwide 🌐.

Shortlist des Prix du Livre 2025 🏆 Frida Foreverlisa Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø & Maija TammiDisko BayCopenhague, Danem...
13/07/2025

Shortlist des Prix du Livre 2025 🏆

Frida Foreverlisa
Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø & Maija Tammi
Disko Bay
Copenhague, Danemark, 2025
Design :

HRTLND

Mads Holm & Donald Weber
Disko Bay
Copenhague, Danemark, 2025
Design :

SUMMER HOLIDAYS. We’re off to the seaside! Disko Bay will be on summer break from 1–31 July (both days included). Orders...
30/06/2025

SUMMER HOLIDAYS. We’re off to the seaside! Disko Bay will be on summer break from 1–31 July (both days included). Orders can still be placed online at diskobay.org — we’ll ship them as soon as we return.

If you’re in urgent need of books during July, please check our list of stockists online. For wholesale inquiries, reach out to our distributors (worldwide) and DBK (Denmark).

See you in August — sun-kissed and fully recharged!

📸 from The Vulgarity of Being Three-Dimensional, 2022

We’re thrilled to announce that ‘Looking at My Brother’ by  and ‘Frida Forever’ by .lisa are among the ten winners of th...
25/06/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that ‘Looking at My Brother’ by and ‘Frida Forever’ by .lisa are among the ten winners of this years Library Award celebrating the best photobooks of the year!

The books will be publicly exhibited at the Fotobus during the Rencontres d’Arles and Polycopies festivals in 2025 ❤️

“The beauty of the photographs presented lies in their disguised ordinariness.” Thank you  for a thoughtful review of HR...
23/06/2025

“The beauty of the photographs presented lies in their disguised ordinariness.” Thank you for a thoughtful review of HRTLND by and for this lovely quote. We couldn’t agree more! The book is available on our website and in good bookshops distributed by .

“In one photo, a child casually bears an assault rifle in what is presumed to be some sort of shooting range. In another, a woman dons a garish gas mask, a large drink, and a tote bag in her hands, as she goes about her day. Both these photos bear their abnormalities as if commonplace. The reality is that in our modern times, these abnormalities are only becoming more and more common.”

1 - 31U Regentessekwartier, The Hague 2020
2 - 33U F363 Niels Juel, Copenhagen 2016
3 - 33U F363 Niels Juel, Copenhagen 2016
4 - 16S 260 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 2017

We’re excited to share that our books ‘Frida Forever’ by .lisa and ‘HRTLND’ by  have been shortlisted for  2025 Book Awa...
12/06/2025

We’re excited to share that our books ‘Frida Forever’ by .lisa and ‘HRTLND’ by have been shortlisted for 2025 Book Award in the Author Book category 👏. Congrats Mads and Frida and to everyone involved in both projects.

The books will be exhibited throughout the festival in Mécanique Générale, at Luma Arles and the announcement of the winners will be on Tuesday July 8, at the Théâtre Antique. Fingers crossed guys🤞.

Mads and Frida will be in Arles signing their books at Saturday 12 July from 2pm to 3pm. Remember so swing by and grab your copy.

“Meet the photographer who documents her illness as a radical art form”. A raw and honest interview with .lisa on  out n...
24/05/2025

“Meet the photographer who documents her illness as a radical art form”. A raw and honest interview with .lisa on out now:

“What were the biggest challenges in creating Frida Forever?

One of the biggest challenges has been the fear of dying before finishing the work. The urgency to tell the story pushed me to seek a perfect ending, but life — and this project — don’t work that way.”

Read the full interview on instyle.mx and grab the book online or in your local bookshop now.

Thanks Matteo for the thoughtful words. It means so much ❤️. From the latest review of .lisa’s Frida Forever on : “In th...
15/05/2025

Thanks Matteo for the thoughtful words. It means so much ❤️. From the latest review of .lisa’s Frida Forever on :

“In the contemporary landscape of authorial photobook publishing, Frida Forever by Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø – published by Disko Bay – stands out as a work of rare visual and conceptual intensity. This is not merely an autobiographical photobook, nor a therapeutic narrative of illness: Frida Forever constitutes a critical and iconographic device that deconstructs and reformulates the ways in which photographic images can articulate the experience of a vulnerable, medicalized, and chronically ill body.

Through a sequence of self-portraits, performative mise-en-scènes, and documentary-style images, Jersø develops a visual language that avoids any conventional aestheticization of pain, opting instead for a hybrid and unsettling syntax, capable of alternating the raw and the playful, the symbolic and the explicit, the wound and the mask. In this sense, the book does not simply represent illness—it stages it, interrogates it, fragments it, and reassembles it in a stratified manner that is simultaneously affective, clinical, and political. “

Published by: Disko Bay ()
Words by: Matteo Cremonesi ()

Read the full review on phroomplatform.com

Recently published ‘HRTLND’ by , available online and shipping worldwide. — HRTLND (Heartland) by Danish photographer Ma...
06/05/2025

Recently published ‘HRTLND’ by , available online and shipping worldwide.


HRTLND (Heartland) by Danish photographer Mads Holm is a powerful exploration of life in a rapidly changing world, captured across 20 European and North American countries over the last decade. Through striking images of urban life, demonstrations, emerging technologies, migration, architecture, and militarized spaces, the book reflects on the paradoxes and tensions shaping modern society. HRTLND highlights the interplay between connectivity and control, freedom and surveillance, and the gradual militarization of everyday life.

21,5 × 31 cm, 184 pages, foreword by , design and concept by

.lisa’s Frida Forever spotted at  in New York 👀. Run down and grab yourself a weekend read 💜.
02/05/2025

.lisa’s Frida Forever spotted at in New York 👀. Run down and grab yourself a weekend read 💜.

Reposted from  Photobook Review: Frida Forever by Frida Lisa Carstensen JersøFrida Forever tells the story of chronic il...
22/04/2025

Reposted from

Photobook Review: Frida Forever by Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø

Frida Forever tells the story of chronic illness, of the broken back that .lisa suffered, the hundreds of operations she has undergone. It’s a book of snapshot images, and snapshot words that cut through the pain with their dark humour and intelligence.

Read the book review by on phmuseum.com

OUT NOW! We are thrilled to present HRTLND by  - a powerful exploration of life in a rapidly changing world, captured ac...
10/04/2025

OUT NOW! We are thrilled to present HRTLND by - a powerful exploration of life in a rapidly changing world, captured across 20 European and North American countries over the last decade. Through striking images of urban life, demonstrations, emerging technologies, migration, architecture, and militarized spaces, the book reflects on the paradoxes and tensions shaping modern society. It highlights the interplay between connectivity and control, freedom and surveillance, and the gradual militarization of everyday life.

The book presents a hyperreal landscape where the ordinary is interwoven with the unsettling, challenging the viewer to question what is visible and what remains obscured. Here Holm captures the undercurrents of global capitalism, militarization, and societal fragmentation, offering a layered narrative that is as much an artistic statement as it is a political act. Featuring a foreword by acclaimed Canadian photographer and five reflective texts by Holm, HRTLND is a profound visual chronicle of our collective condition, offering a stark portrait of the times as of now.

Our book is a lay-flat softcover containing 184 pages with 81 color plates wrapped in a French poster jacket with a UTM world map printed on the back, highlighting the precise position of each image. The book is printed by the magnificent munks at and beautifully designed by .

Join us for the release party and exhibition opening in Copenhagen later today at .space from 17.00-21.00 for beers, music, totes and books. The book is now available on diskobay.org and hopefully in your favorite bookshop real soon distributed by our friend at and DBK (in Denmark).

Thanks to everyone involved in the proces of making this book.

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