Our pick of the best titles about photography published this year – each one will make an ideal festive season gift for lovers of the medium…

(whatever your budget!)

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Cudillero, Asturias, Spain Photographer: James Cheadle. There are ...

As many as 300,000 displaced Gazans streamed northward on Jan. 27, after Israel reopened the Netzarim corridor, which bisects the Gaza Strip. Carrying their belongings in plastic bags and flour sacks

The distant charms of South-East Asia’s best-kept secret may be about to go mainstream, predicts our writer