{"title":"Carlos Alba","description":"\u003ch2\u003eCarlos Alba — Photobooks \u0026amp; Artist Publications\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos Alba (b. 1984, Madrid) is a visual artist working across photography, video, painting, and installation. His practice is grounded in personal experience — masculinity, vulnerability, fear, and the relationships between human and non-human life in the contemporary world. He uses objects and archives as primary tools, building a body of work that is as much therapeutic investigation as visual document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlba's monographs are held in institutional collections including Tate Library and Harvard Library, and his work has been shown internationally at venues such as the Hayward Gallery in London and the Lianzhou Museum of Photography. His publications sit within the broader field of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e and artist publications where autobiography and documentary practice intersect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Lokator100, the current title available is \u003ca href=\"\/products\/i-ll-bet-the-devil-my-head-carlos-alba\" title=\"View I'll Bet the Devil My Head by Carlos Alba\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI'll Bet the Devil My Head\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, published through \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/void-photo\" title=\"Browse all Void Photo titles at Lokator100\"\u003eVoid Photo\u003c\/a\u003e. This collection is maintained for readers with a serious interest in contemporary photography publishing and the kind of work that resists easy categorisation — stocked by Lokator100, an independent bookstore based in Germany, because it holds its ground over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"i-ll-bet-the-devil-my-head-carlos-alba","title":"I'll Bet the Devil My Head — Carlos Alba","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eI'll Bet the Devil My Head\u003c\/em\u003e — urban foxes, class division, and the social geography of East London\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/carlos-alba\" title=\"View all Carlos Alba titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eCarlos Alba\u003c\/a\u003e's \u003cem\u003eI'll Bet the Devil My Head\u003c\/em\u003e is a 2023 \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ephotobook\u003c\/a\u003e published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/void-photo\" title=\"Browse all Void publications available at Lokator100\"\u003eVoid Photo\u003c\/a\u003e that constructs a visual fable from the streets of East London. The book does not treat urban foxes as documentary subjects in any conventional sense. Instead, they operate as a symbolic structure through which class difference, exclusion, and the uneven distribution of urban life become legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe project is grounded in Tower Hamlets — a borough defined by sharp internal inequality, positioned directly beside Canary Wharf and the City of London. In Alba's framework, the foxes stand in for the working class, brokers for the elite, and ravens appear as figures of social control. That allegorical architecture gives the work a cold clarity without reducing it to illustration. Night streets, corporate architecture, fragments of urban nature, and the movement of animals and workers are held within the same visual field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe setting is specific, but the book reaches beyond local reportage. It reads as a broader account of adaptation, exclusion, and the contested logic of the contemporary city — one that draws on the moral structure of a fable without sentimentalising its subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUrban foxes deployed as a metaphor for the working class in contemporary London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSet across Tower Hamlets, Canary Wharf, and the City of London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStructured as a social fable with a defined symbolic cast: foxes, brokers, ravens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEngages with Brexit-era urban division and class inequality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoves between documentary photography and allegorical form\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmall-format, limited edition of 500 copies — flexicover with cloth binding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Void","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53814628057434,"sku":"978-618-5479-27-5","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/i-ll-bet-the-devil-my-head-front-cover.jpg?v=1778432669"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/carlos-alba.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}