Brown Owl Press

Publisher of photobooks, zines and prints. Based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

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OUT NOW: Oasis by Sam Telford. Buy here.

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#photobooksunday Fashion Magazine: Austin, Texas by Lise Sarfati.Cool shortlived concept of fashion focused books (or thick advert-free magazines) that gave primary creative control to the photographer. Lise Sarfati is probably my favourite portrait photographer, captures the subjects so tenderly. Everything feels like it's the beat after the reveal, the moment after the sting. Very poignant, but very stylish also.

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PREORDER: Oasis by Sam Telford.

RELEASED 30/03/2026

Edition of 50

36 pages

148 x 210mm

Saddle stitched

Colour

Oasis is a rapid fire projection of double exposures, confusing the senses, and playing with linear time.

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Our new title, Letting Go by Anastasia Davis is up for preorder now 🦉

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Released 20/02/2026 Edition of 50 32 pages 163 x 203mm Saddle stitched Black and white/colour After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’ And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’? The Feet, mechanical, go round – A Wooden way Of Ground, or Air, or Ought – Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone – This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go – Emily Dickinson - After great pain, a formal feeling comes,

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Our new title, Letting Go by Anastasia Davis is up for preorder now 🦉

PREORDER HERE

Released 20/02/2026 Edition of 50 32 pages 163 x 203mm Saddle stitched Black and white/colour After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’ And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’? The Feet, mechanical, go round – A Wooden way Of Ground, or Air, or Ought – Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone – This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go – Emily Dickinson - After great pain, a formal feeling comes,

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Ins/out for 2026. What would you add? 🦉

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OUT NOW: Ground by Tyrone Williams. Ground is an exploration of the idea of looking closer, looking more severely and looking through what you think you're seeing 🦉

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PREORDER: Ground by Tyrone Williams. 🦉

Released 21/11/2025

Edition of 75

56 pages

140 x 210mm

Saddle stitched

Colour

Ground is an exploration of the idea of looking closer, looking more severely and looking through what you think you're seeing.

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PREORDER: Ground by Tyrone Williams. 🦉

Released 21/11/2025

Edition of 75

56 pages

140 x 210mm

Saddle stitched

Colour

Ground is an exploration of the idea of looking closer, looking more severely and looking through what you think you're seeing.

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OUT NOW: Sunshine State by Ivette Spradlin.

Edition of 75

32 pages

148 x 210mm

Saddle stitched

Black and white/colour cover

South Florida is a strange place for me. It is where I spent my early childhood. It was where my father and stepmother still live. I visit at least once a year. I haven't lived there in over 35 years but I dream of its landscape more so than any other. The murky canals and palms swaying. All the wild reptiles. As a child, I had so much fear of the natural world there. I still do. There's an energy there that radiates from the ground, something that feels so primal, so fundamental, that it borders on the supernatural.

All images are stills from 8mm film shot around Tampa, Florida and a long kayak ride down the Hillsborough River in January of 2016.

– Ivette Spradlin, 2025

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Sketchbook ideas when planning our first title (Flood of Sunshine by Al Palmer) from a coffee shop in Honolulu. From small acorns might owls grow 🦉

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OUT NOW: Spark by Tyrone Williams (@tyswills) is out now 🦉

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PREORDER: Spark by Tyrone Williams is available to preorder now 🦉

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PREORDER: Spark by Tyrone Williams is available to preorder now 🦉

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PREORDER: Spark by Tyrone Williams is available to preorder now 🦉

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#photobooksunday Lick Creek Line by Ron Jude (Mack). A real turning point in how I saw the photobook as its own thing, as opposed to just being a monograph supporting an exhibition. An exercise in choice, adventure and losing your way. This was one of the three photobooks I bought in NYC that certainly influenced beginning Brown Owl Press. A-Jump, Ron's book imprint was a big influence too. 🦉