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Disko Bay is an independent photobook publisher based in Copenhagen

15/03/2026

‘New Danish Photography 02’ featured in Danish daily this weekend with interviews with , and .

14/02/2026

Happy valentine’s 💕

From ‘Frida Forever’ by .lisa

10/02/2026

Thanks for the thoughtful words, it means so much! From the new review of ’s Maputo Diary on with the great title: “Phenomenology of Encounter, Ethics of Duration, Archive of the Invisible”

“Maputo Diary resists classification as a conventional photobook or as a documentary project in any straightforward sense. It operates instead as a complex testimonial assemblage, a discursive and affective field in which photographic practice, diaristic inscription, and ethical-political reflection converge without resolving into a unified narrative. Developed over more than twenty-five years of intermittent return and sustained relational engagement with the city of Maputo and its inhabitants, the work deliberately occupies a liminal position: between document and memory, archive and autobiography, observation and implication”.

Read the full review on phroomplatform.com and grab the book on diskobay.org

30/01/2026

OUT NOW! We are exited to present ‘This Much is True’ by following his acclaimed debut monograph ’What Sort of Life is This’. The book weaves together Elm’s energetic snapshots and dreamlike landscapes into an original body of work that employs a raw yet playful photographic language. Through this approach, Elm reflects on life as he experiences it—at home and abroad, at this particular moment in time, shaped by his age, circumstances, and surroundings.

The images move freely between faraway places and local experiences, icebergs, swimming pools and deserts. South Asian workers in Dubai, a marble quarry in Carrara, and an industrial pipe system outside Mumbai, alongside tourists photographing the Mona Lisa, graffiti on the separation barrier, and a masked police force in Copenhagen. These scenes are assembled into a fragmented yet coherent visual narrative that feels simultaneously global and deeply personal.

The book is a half cloth bound hardcover with 164 pages and three (fun) fold-outs containing 91 color and 8 BW plates. It’s a great middle size of 17,6 × 24 cm, edited by Albert Elm and Stinus Duch with design by Andreas Peitersen and Albert Elm printed in an edition of 800 copies by the legendary munks at .

Join us later today for the book release in our bookstore in Nørrebro! There will be free beer, music and books. Come and say hi from 4-7 pm. We hope to see you for a night to celebrate! The book is now available on our website and hopefully in your favorite bookshop real soon distributed worldwide by our friend at , DBK in Denmark and in UK.

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

21/01/2026

Maputo Diary on : speaks with about the embodied memory of a place and the importance of context and the necessity of text in the book.

“The book Maputo Diar was born from the need to give proper form to this accumulation of lives, losses, and connections. Ultimately, it is in the dialogue between photography and writing that balance is achieved. “Photographs, especially when they are aesthetically beautiful, lie. They flatten complexity.” “ Writing then becomes an essential counterpoint: it restores the doubts, the contexts, the silences, ‘everything surrounding that 1/125th of a second that the photograph freezes and which, in reality, constitutes the true story .’ Writing is also about situating oneself,” explains Ditte Haarløv Johnsen: “I had to acknowledge that I belong, in my own way, to Maputo, and that the book is fundamentally an exploration of what it means to belong.”

Read the full interview on fisheyemagazine.fr and discover the book on our website or in a good independent bookstore.

19/01/2026

We are happy to invite you to the book launch of ’s second book ‘This Much is True’ Friday 30 January in our bookstore in Nørrebro. There will be free beer, music and books. Come and say hi from 4-7pm ❤️.

The book is now available for pre-order on our website.

15/01/2026

[PRE-ORDER] 📚

Albert Elm — This Much is True

Right around the corner we’ll be publishing ’s long awaited second book ‘This Much is True’. We are starting the pre-orders today and invite you all to the launch 30 January in our bookstore in Copenhagen.

The book weaves together Elm’s energetic snapshots and dreamlike landscapes into an original body of work that employs a raw yet playful photographic language. Through this approach, Elm reflects on life as he experiences it—at home and abroad, at this particular moment in time, shaped by his age, circumstances, and surroundings.

Jump to our website and reserve your copy now.

12/01/2026

“Taboos and the trans community are at the heart of Ditte Haarløv Johnsen’s photographic diary from Mozambique”. Interview with ⁠ on . Jump in and read along 💫

Maputo Diary, the debut photobook by Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, did not arrive easily. Spanning 25 years and multiple attempted iterations, the work resisted resolution until its author was able to locate her own position within it. The book traces Johnsen’s long relationship with Maputo, where she grew up in the aftermath of Mozambique’s War of Independence, and with a community of trans women – including Ingrácia, Yara and Antonieta – whom she befriended as a young woman and returned to photograph repeatedly over the decades.⁠
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Rather than presenting a stable authorial voice, Maputo Diary foregrounds uncertainty. Johnsen’s role shifts between insider and outsider, witness and participant, a movement that mirrors the ethical questions at the core of the project. The book is explicit about the asymmetries that structure these relationships: Johnsen is a white woman shaped by whiteness, photographing Black q***r and trans bodies. The work does not attempt to dissolve this tension, nor does it reduce the relationships to a single axis of difference. Instead, it insists on staying with complexity.⁠
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Text plays a crucial role. Johnsen’s writing situates the images within personal memory and political history, from post-independence optimism to civil war, unspoken family taboos and the formation of chosen family. Throughout the process, the people portrayed were actively involved, correcting timelines, contributing their voices and shaping how their stories were told.⁠
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09/01/2026

From last month’s printing of ’s forthcoming book ‘This Much is True’. Out by the end of January and available for preorder next week 🔥

09/12/2025

It’s official. We’re opening our very own bookstore in the heart of Nørrebro 💗. Swing by if you need a book before the holidays. Open by appointment and weekdays from 9-15. Lots of exciting things coming next year!

📍Hørsholmsgade 24, Copenhagen N

27/11/2025

We are unbelievably proud to finally present Maputo Diary, a deeply personal and visual masterpiece by the Danish photographer and filmmaker Ditte Haarløv Johnsen (). The book brings together 25 years of photographic work from Mozambique’s capital, Maputo — the city where Haarløv Johnsen herself grew up during the civil war and has subsequently returned to over the past two decades.  Through 121 photographs, accompanied by diary notes and new texts, the book portrays life, love, and survival among people living on the margins of society, blending social documentary with artistic investigation in images of friends, family, and everyday moments in Maputo. At its heart lies Haarløv Johnsen’s friendship with the “Manas” (“Sisters”) — a group of transgender individuals, many of whom are no longer alive. Maputo Diary stands as both a personal testimony and a universal story — one that finds beauty, dignity, and humanity even in life’s most vulnerable moments.

The book is a clothbound debossed hardcover with ribbon and two different set of papers. 232 pages and 22 × 26,50 cm, edit & sequence by Stinus Duch and Ditte Haarløv Johnsen with design by , Introduction and diary notes by Ditte Haarløv Johnsen herself and a beautiful text by Eliana N’Zualo. Everything in both English and Portuguese and printed by the legendary munks at .

Join us later today for the grand release party in Copenhagen! Opening speech by P***e Sigsgaard, live music by Perlemor and DJ Kipanga will keep our feet moving all night. Books and beer will be free flowing. We hope to see you for a night to celebrate – bring good friends! The book is now available on our website and hopefully in your favorite bookshop real soon distributed worldwide by our friend at , DBK in Denmark and in UK.

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

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