Shift Books
SHIFT BOOKS is an independent art and photography book publisher in Berlin, directed by Helena Melikov and Christian Dettler, which has published books since 2018 on contemporary art, photography and social interest, with a focus on FLINTA artists, social issues and sustainable book production, vegan where possible. One of its photobooks received the German Photo Book Prize 2023/24, the house was awarded the German Publishing Prize in 2024 and was shortlisted for the Berlin Publishing Prize in 2025. Helena Melikov also began the Lost and Found project in 2016, which works with flea-market snapshots, and the shop sells art books, photobooks, magazines, prints and editions.
- Also publishes
- Art, Magazines, Prints
- Books in Spine Index
- 18, years 2019 – 2026
- Link
- shiftbooks.de
Start with
- Cihan Çakmak, like a warrior (2026)
- Ana Rodríguez Heinlein, Tierra sin Agua (2025)
- Ani Menua, Lost & Found (2019)
- Annemie Martin, Jana Kießer, Von Kartoffelrosen und brennenden Baumkronen (2021)
Latest additions
- Various Authors, Brandenburg. Die Kunst zu Leben (2022)
- Various Authors, grenzenlos (2020)
- Annemie Martin, Jana Kießer, Von Kartoffelrosen und brennenden Baumkronen (2021)
- Katerina Belkina, My Work Is My Personal Theatre (2020)
Recurring authors
- Cihan Çakmak (2)
Books in the archive
- Cihan Çakmak, like a warrior (2026)
- Various Authors, dog days (2026)
- Clélia Odette, Belles Mômes (2025)
- Ana Rodríguez Heinlein, Tierra sin Agua (2025)
- Various Authors, Mensch. Raum. Geschichte. Die Fotografische Sammlung im Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf (2025)
- Jimmi Wing Ka Ho, Invisible City (2025)
- Various Authors, Welten verbinden. Ein Brandenburg Buch (2025)
- Cihan Çakmak, ez fraktal (2025)
- Various Authors, IN LIEBE VON (2023)
- Irina Unruh, Where The Poplars Grow (2024)
- Julie Legouez, The Cure (2024)
- Isaiah Lopaz, Fluent in the Language of my Selves (2023)
- Rabea Edel, A Second Beating Heart (2021)
- Ani Menua, Lost & Found (2019)
- Katerina Belkina, My Work Is My Personal Theatre (2020)
- Annemie Martin, Jana Kießer, Von Kartoffelrosen und brennenden Baumkronen (2021)
- Various Authors, grenzenlos (2020)
- Various Authors, Brandenburg. Die Kunst zu Leben (2022)
