Eyeshot Books
Visual Riffs
Photographer
Ed Kashi
Edited by
Marco Savarese, Editor-in-Chief
Published
Eyeshot, 2025
Format
Hardcover, 22 × 24 cm
Pages
128
Price
Sold out
“Visual Riffs” is a bold new limited edition book by Ed Kashi, published by Eyeshot. Rather than a retrospective, it’s a reimagining of over 45 years of work, images taken across 100 countries, covering social, political, and human stories that remain relevant today. The project brings together photographs from different decades and geographies to create new visual sequences. Each “riff” starts with a theme and unfolds as a visual response, similar to a jazz solo: improvised but intentional. By pairing images from diverse contexts, “Visual Riffs” creates unexpected connections and fresh narratives. It’s a dynamic way to look back while saying something new. The book reflects Kashi’s ongoing belief in photography as a global language. It invites viewers to explore how meaning can shift over time and through new contexts, and how photography can continue to speak in the present.
Who made it
The peoplePhotographer
Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi is an acclaimed photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker, and educator who has been telling visual stories for over 40 years. Known for his dedication to documenting social and political issues, Kashi combines a sensitive eye with deep compassion for his subjects.
The book
Edition detailsEdition
FormatHardcover, 22 × 24 cm
Pages128
EditionLimited edition
SignedDigitally
Publishing
Edited byMarco Savarese
IntroductionLucrezia Bonarota
PublishedEyeshot, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Printed inItaly
ISBN979-12-80238-68-9
Made to last
MaterialsWe choose every material for what it gives the photographs, and for what it leaves behind. Every page, cover, and endpaper is paper made in Italy by Fedrigoni, founded in Verona in 1888: it gives us the print quality we want and the environmental guarantees we will not do without, and we pay more for both.
Papers
Interior and coverSymbol Tatami, matt coated. 30% more body than ordinary coated stock and 97% opacity: the blacks stay deep, and no image shows through from the page behind.
EndpapersSirio Color Black, 140 g/m². Dyed through the pulp with lightfast pigments, so it stays black for decades.
Standards
FSC® MixBoth papers: fibre from responsibly managed forests and controlled sources.
No elemental chlorineBoth papers: pulp bleached without elemental chlorine (ECF).
Acid freeBoth papers, Long Life certified: the pages will not yellow or turn brittle.
RecyclableBoth papers: every paper in the book can be recycled at the end of its life.
PapermakerFedrigoni, rated Platinum by EcoVadis (top 1% of its industry) and on the CDP A List for climate, 2025.
How we make it
DesignEdited, sequenced, and designed in our studio, page by page, together with the photographer.
PrintPaper, print, and binding in Italy, a short distance apart, with people we have worked with for years.
EditionWe print what is ordered, in a limited edition: no warehouse of unsold copies.
ShippingFrom Italy, one parcel per order, straight to its reader. An order never ships in pieces.
PackagingA recyclable mono-material envelope (Made for Recycling, Interzero), resealable to be used again, closed with acid-free paper stickers.
