Imageless
Imageless describes itself as an award-winning independent photobook publisher based in Shanghai, publishing limited-edition photobooks that showcase unique voices and nuanced human experiences in East Asia and its diasporas. Its list includes found-photograph books such as a 500-page volume on modern China, in an edition of 700, and an artist's book that is also a product catalogue made with the artist Zhang Xiao. The Imageless Dummy Photobook Awards, an annual competition open to photographers of Chinese ethnicity or heritage or to work about China and its diasporas, offer the winner a cash prize and a book published by the house.
- Books in Spine Index
- 20, years 2019 – 2026
- Link
- imageless.cn
Start with
- Birdhead, Yunyun (2024)
- Koji Onaka, Slow Boat (2019)
- Bai Linghai, Treevia (2019)
- Cai Dongdong, History of Life (2021)
Latest additions
- Lu Yuanmin, Good Times (2026)
- Birdhead, 鵟KUANG (2025)
- Leslie Zhang, Les Lies (2022)
- Lin Shu, Pagoda (2022)
Recurring authors
- Birdhead (2)
- Koji Onaka (2)
Shares authors with
- Session Press (1)
- Sokyusha (1)
- Super Labo (1)
- Zen Foto Gallery (1)
Books in the archive
- Margo Ovcharenko, Overtime (2026)
- Yi Hui, Duoduo (2025)
- Wu Jinchen, Unwind and Drift into Sleep (2024)
- Ismail Ferdous, Sea Beach (2024)
- Le Ziyi, New Comer (2024)
- Birdhead, Yunyun (2024)
- Zhang Xiao, Apple Department Store (2023)
- Li Jun, Impermanent Instant (2023)
- Zhang An, Thundershower (2022)
- Lin Shu, Pagoda (2022)
- Leslie Zhang, Les Lies (2022)
- Cai Dongdong, History of Life (2021)
- Koji Onaka, Tokyo Candy Box (2021)
- Birdhead, 鵟KUANG (2025)
- Koji Onaka, Slow Boat (2019)
- Wang Xuanhe, Les Piques de la Mante (2019)
- Bai Linghai, Treevia (2019)
- Han Lei, Early Works (2019)
- Gao Shan, The Eighth Day (2019)
- Lu Yuanmin, Good Times (2026)
