Independent photobook publisher

BYRC

BYRC is an independent photobook publishing house working with authors whose projects are grounded in shared values, care, and artistic intent. Founded by an artist and photobook designer, BYRC approaches publishing from within the making process itself, prioritizing attentiveness and trust over speed. Our books are connected by a shared interest in experimentation — in form, material, and photographic language.

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The Road Not Taken

ALENA LESKOVA

The Road Not Taken brings together photographs made by Alena Leskova across different periods of life, combining images from 2008–2011 with recent work. Moving through landscapes, objects, and everyday gestures, the book reflects on the passage of time and the quiet questioning of one’s own choices — how change unfolds, and how one arrives at a particular moment. Non-chronological in structure, the images speak across years, tracing personal transformation and the shifting relationship between past and present.

Price: 80 euros
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Life is still a garden, don’t say otherwise

Veronika Trubnikova

The photobook brings together analog and digital photographs made from 2023 to the present, exploring the archetype of the “garden of paradise” as a protected space for childhood. Shot primarily on analog cameras, often using a monocle lens, the images use soft focus and low contrast. Scenes of everyday life in gardens and natural landscapes present the environment as an active presence. The work addresses childhood, personal space, and connection to nature, linking the artist’s memory with the viewer’s experience.

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Katerina Cherkashina

Aetherial

This photobook brings together eight years of sustained observation of clouds, recorded as a continuous practice rather than a linear archive. At that stage, planned to be published in a complex folded form. The work is conceived as an aesthetic field of attention, where duration, change, and impermanence are held without resolution or conclusion.
Project is now in test printing stage

Eugenia Ignatova

dissolving / e

In this book, images undergo a gradual state of disintegration and dissolution. Grain, abstraction, and visual instability dominate, even when the photographed subject remains formally recognizable. The photographs do not aim to describe or clarify, but to persist in an aesthetic and emotional presence, allowing meaning to fragment rather than resolve. Published in A3 format (29.7 × 42 cm) and consisting of 20 pages, the book is conceived primarily as an aesthetic object — a space where images exist not to conclude, but to linger within a suspended, unresolved state.

BYRC

About us

"BYRC (pronounced as “Byrts”) is a name with a story as fluid and meaningful as the creations we aim to bring to life. The name comes from my younger son, who once invented a monster called Byrc. This creature wasn’t purely good or bad - it was whatever he needed it to be in the moment. A shapeshifter, an emotional “container” for everything he liked, disliked, loved, or feared.Now, I’ve borrowed BYRC to hold everything I love, everything that sparks feelings—whether joyful or challenging. BYRC is my container for what moves me and what I want to transform into something tangible—on paper, in pixels, or beyond.At its core, BYRC embodies creativity, honesty, and the freedom to explore the fluid, complex emotions that make us human. It’s a space for all the things we care about, even the messy, complicated ones. Welcome to our world."Eugenia Ignatova

ALENA LESKOVA

Contact

You can contact us to discuss any questions via Instagram or by email.We do not have an open call at the moment, but authors are always welcome to write to us with a short pitch of their project. We are interested in authors who can articulate their ideas and are open to experimenting with form, where book design stands on the same side as the content. We read all messages and will respond.Our online shop is not active yet. For any questions about available books or purchases, please contact us directly and we will get back to you.BYRC is based in Belgrade, Serbia.