Released in autumn  2024, the photobook Días by self-taught photographer Pia Riverola remains one of my favourite publications to flip through. Her images of days (días  in Spanish) spent travelling show us landscapes, portraits, architecture, street life and still-lifes taken in various parts of the world. 

Publisher Loose Joints calls it a ‘synaesthetic experience’ as looking at Riverola's works involuntarily triggers experiences in another unrelated sense. The images—often featuring high contrasts and bold shadows—have a dreamy, timeless and mesmerising quality that fuels my sense of wanderlust.  

The book's minimalist design, small white borders around the images and no text, succeeds thanks to the strength of its imagery.  It is no surprise that Días is already an enormous success worldwide, after appearing prolifically in many magazines and blogs.   

LOTTE KLÖSTERS is the manager of both the in-house gallery and the bookshop of Foam Photography Museum. After working with textiles and contemporary art jewellery she has focused on photography for the last ten years. In the role of gallery manager she works with both new talent, curating the First Editions program at Foam, and experienced artists exhibiting in the museum. She organizes masterclasses about buying photography and gives advice about art purchases or expanding an art collection, to both private collectors and corporations. Her personal art collection mainly consists of portraits.