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Independent publishing house with a steady supply of poetry, short stories and photo books.

30/10/2025

Postcards from the mountains and the foreign seas. A book that doesn’t give you answers, but better questions, and takes you on a ride to learn the ways of Northerners. Still in stock - The Life of Slippery Stones by .

28/10/2025

A very fain second taim to be at . Blown away by the stuff at every table, brought back some paper products to stock at the bookshop and had some honest cozy days to hangout in Timisoara. Thank you for taking part in the calendar workshop and to the organizers for the invitation and keeping everything nice and tight. Hope to see you soon! Let’s keep the paper moving!

24/10/2025

Open call for the distribution of self-published material 📚 Zines, books, prints with drawings, photography or poetry.

We stock it in our shop at Obor Market, and when sold you get 100% of the 💰 No comissions. For the love of tax evasion and Revolut. This is the core act of trafficking 🚤 To bypass established fiscal structures and to cut out middlemen.

To encourage small print runs that would otherwise would not be able to reach physical stores 😎🤝😎and to give an attaboy to local publishing and its authors.

We reach a “weekender” type of consumer, relaxed friends and tourists that come for a drink or a coffee at the market and maybe want a bigger treat, a form of physical media or a souvenir ☕️ The bookshop is in its third year of operations, and it seems that 2025 is the moment when it finally makes sense.

You have two weeks, until NOV 7th to submit your product for distribution on paper-traffic.com 🫡 Not all will make the cut, good luck! ✌️🌞

08/10/2025

WE WON! CHIPS got a book design award at the . The category had 15 nominations produced in the last two years, most of which were published by galleries or independently by the artists. Bravo to everyone, see the winners at localdesignawards.ro/awarded.

Thank you for hosting to and , for bringing artbooks and editorial design back to the public attention. Nice books are made every other season and they do not get much spotlight because an artbook is like a good dessert: you don’t really need it, but once you know it exists, it’s hard to ignore. As was said when nominated, the actual big deal is that we have a dedicated design competition again, after a six year break.

We had a good run doing one small thing after another, but this is by far the best moment for us since publishing the first book three years ago. It feels great to be recognized, to see that all the effort we put in together with is making a tiny dent. We’re playing the long game. You shouldn’t train until you get it right, you should train until you no longer get it wrong, so see you next year :)

Oh, and get the book, we still have copies. It’s a strong personal story about the inner workings of fashion world and working on making your dreams come true.

23/09/2025

In weekend s-a lansat banda desenata HAI PE-AICI scrisa si ilustrata de si produsa de care prezinta Piata Obor ca un labirint pentru curiosi si un loc cu o istorie sociala bogata. Am facut o masa lunga unde am vorbit si de alte piete, mancare, de transformari, politica, cultura si copilarie.

Publicatia se poate gasi gratuit in format fizic la libraria de la etajul unu din Hala Centrala. Filtru Cultural este o platforma care isi propune sa mapeze scena artistica din Bucuresti, aducand la lumina initiative si locuri atat traditionale cat si alternative care compun si misca domeniul cultural. Poti sa fii la curent cu ce urmeaza in sectiunea Evenimente, sau sa descoperi in profunzime agenti culturali prin articolele de pe site.

24/08/2025

𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘙𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 by Mircea Topoleanu

Mircea is preoccupied with photographing human presence and emotions without people being central or even present in the image, capturing the traces and consequences of their actions. The horse is shot in Paris, a series where he did everything he could not to photograph the city the way it’s shown everywhere, but rather to make elements from it interact with each other.

More photos at until the end of summer (just a few more days).

23/08/2025

𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘐𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘎𝘢𝘵𝘦) by Marco Verhoogt .verhoogt

Marco is an artist that works with photography, video and poetry. The project he’s currently involved in is about the confrontation between the romantic dream of an untouched, wild nature, the human desire to bring it back, and the bureaucratic and economic realities—the binder files where the fate of the original, unused world is being decided.

Crazy photos at the coffee shop until the end of summer :D

23/08/2025

𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 by Lucian Barbu

Lucian draws and lives in Timisoara. Lucian is ⅕ of , ¼ of and ½ of LuciAna.

Artworks available in the window display at for a few more days.

22/08/2025

𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘺 by Diana Anghel

In her practice, she combines fine art with documentary photography and is always concerned with emotions and the uncanny. She has been nominated for First Book Award and also selected as a Bloomberg New Contemporaries artist 2016 with exhibitions taking part at Liverpool Biennial and Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Berlin Art Week and PHOTO Los Angeles. She also spent this decade opening small, creative bars in Bucharest whilst working on personal photography projects.

The photograph is printed on Hahnemuhle Museum Etching paper, and is also available in an oak wooden frame with museum glass.

Visit the art shop at until the end of summer.

22/08/2025

𝘍𝘖𝘊𝘜𝘙𝘐 𝘚𝘛𝘜𝘍 2024 by Bogdan Gîrbovan

“I don’t really shoot landscape photography, but when I go through the countryside on my way home, I can’t help but take these photos. I’m haunted by the thought that things won’t stay this way, and I wish they would.”

Browse a selection of framed works printed on archival paper behind museum glass at for the last days of summer.

14/08/2025

Big news! CHIPS, the twin publication by Andrei Serban has been nominated at . The actual big deal is that we finally have a book design competition. See the complete list of nominees on their website, great books published in the last 2 years.

We still have a few left from a print run of 100 copies. The book was produced and it comes in a thin cardboard box, with a portrait lookbook and a replica of the photographer’s diary from the last 3 years. The diary presents the process and the photobook is the result of his work. At its core it’s a subtle commentary on the fashion world.
The photo album runs us through a 20sqm hoarder’s flat used as a background for shooting 19 different models, as well as intimate details, quiet objects, still moments captured during three separate trips taken to the very same apartment. Șerban creates set designs with stuff found in every room, exploits the clutter and turns it into a beautiful frame for the portraits.

In the faithful and unedited reproduction of his diary from the last three years, he shares details of his personal life: working on shootings, second guessing himself, writing his hopes down in pen, and documenting people he meets, shoots or loves. After reading the intimate notes and flipping through the photos from the Paris apartment, you get the bigger picture.

This is the result of a meeting between young models and this photographer who creates a space for it to happen. This intersection of emerging narratives is nothing original, but this project works as a subtle commentary on the agency-model-photographer triangle. It is insinuated as a protest against this relationship, to how things usually function in the fashion world, where you need to follow an almost predefined set of steps to get in. Serban hijacks this ladder and assembles his own type of low-budget/high-impact structure that helps him grow and get noticed.

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