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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…

If you’re planning to enter our Urban Life round, which launches next week, take these tips from four of last year’s top ten photographers

Works by Gesualdo & composers of Naples Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini; Monica Piccinini (soprano); Maria Chiara Gallo (mezzo) et al Naïve OP8677 62:13 mins Don’t be deceived – Carlo Gesualdo

These Spectred Isles

When Instagram introduced video, many photographers felt sidelined. So street pro Alan Schaller decided to build his own app and created Irys, that puts photographers and still images back in the limelight. He talks to Benedict Brain about building a new photographers’ place online