Velvet Cell
The Velvet Cell is an independent photobook publisher founded in 2011 by the photographer Éanna de Fréine, which began as an online magazine before its first book. Its own site says it was based in London from 2011 to 2012, in Taipei from 2013 to 2014 and in Osaka from 2015 to 2017, a route that has kept the house international. Its focus is urban and built environments, and it has published photographers from several continents who work on cities, infrastructure and the edges of towns. It also runs open calls for unpublished work, such as one on human environments in which the winner is published as a book by the house.
- Books in Spine Index
- 57, years 2015 – 2025
- Link
- thevelvetcell.com/about
Start with
- Éanna de Fréine, Paris et la Banlieue (2015)
- Alejandro Cartagena, A Guide to Infrastructure & Corruption (2017)
- Kyler Zeleny, Bury Me in the Back Forty (2024)
- Steve Fitch, American Motel Signs III (2022)
Latest additions
- Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, On The Plane (2015)
- Sandra Croft, Psychic Hearts (2015)
- Sander Meisner, Botanica (2016)
- Yanina Shevchenko, Crossing Over (2016)
Recurring authors
- Éanna de Fréine (4)
- Kyler Zeleny (3)
- Steve Fitch (3)
- Alejandro Cartagena (3)
- Toshio Shibata (2)
Shares authors with
- Aint-Bad (1)
- Akio Nagasawa (1)
- Aperture (1)
- Chose commune (1)
- Daylight Books (1)
Books in the archive
- Kosmas Pavlidis, Sunny Days: A True Story (2025)
- Andreas Mader, Interim (2025)
- Max Sher, Snow (2025)
- Kyler Zeleny, Bury Me in the Back Forty (2024)
- Paolo Covino, Altari (2024)
- Michael Lange, Sand (2023)
- Francisco Ibanez Hantke, Non-Structures (2023)
- Steve Fitch, American Motel Signs III (2022)
- Gianpaolo Arena, A Folktale from Vietnam (2021)
- Paul Hiller, HappySad Souvenirs (2021)
- Éanna de Fréine, The Death and Life of Great Asian Cities I (2019)
- Julia Gaisbacher, My Dreamhouse is not a House (2023)
- Alejandro Cartagena, Suburban Bus (2021)
- Chris Bierl, One Storied Country (2022)
- Toshio Shibata, Falling Water (2021)
- Giannis Manolis, The Hunter, The Woman & The Hut (2022)
- Ewan Telford, Ecology of Dreams (2022)
- Gianluca Calise, Utopia Ending (2022)
- Onnis Luque, Undercover (2021)
- Norbert Graf, No Storm in Sight (2021)
- Steve Fitch, American Motel Signs II (2020)
- Sabine Bungert, Stefan Dolfen, Kudzu (2021)
- Raoul Ries, The New Towns (2020)
- Alejandro Cartagena, A Small Guide to Homeownership (2022)
- Michele Cera, Guido Sechi, Tolyatti (2020)
- Kyler Zeleny, Crown Ditch & The Prairie Castle (2020)
- Ekkehart Keintzel, Khmer Concrete (2020)
- Vincenzo Pagliuca, Napoli Nord (2019)
- Scott Conarroe, The Great Eastern (2019)
- Rohan Hutchinson, The City in Itself (2017)
- Toshio Shibata, Japanscapes (2017)
- Alejandro Cartagena, A Guide to Infrastructure & Corruption (2017)
- Hans-Christian Schink, Kochi Nights (2018)
- Bill Lane, The Older Industrial Parks near Newport, Victoria (2017)
- Ruth Connolly, If you lived here, you’d be home by now (2017)
- Éanna de Fréine, Tales from Beneath the Arches (2017)
- Greg Girard, Hotel Okinawa (2017)
- Steve Fitch, American Motel Signs (2016)
- Wolfgang Hildebrand, Moment (2017)
- Alexander Gronsky, Mountains and Waters (2016)
- Lars Rolfsted Mortensen, In Search of Habitat (2015)
- Sander Meisner, Urban Landscapes (2015)
- Gavin Mullan, The New City (2015)
- Johnny Savage, Fallout (2015)
- Éanna de Fréine, Lost Rivers (2015)
- Isidro Ramírez, Common Love (2015)
- Alexander Gronsky, Norilsk (2015)
- Kyler Zeleny, Out West (2015)
- Sam Laughlin, Frameworks (2016)
- Atsushi Momoi, Score (Scene #1 / Tokyo) (2015)
- Éanna de Fréine, Paris et la Banlieue (2015)
- Jordi Huisman, Rear Window (2015)
- Fergus Jordan, Garden Estate (2015)
- Yanina Shevchenko, Crossing Over (2016)
- Sander Meisner, Botanica (2016)
- Sandra Croft, Psychic Hearts (2015)
- Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, On The Plane (2015)
