Trolley Books

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Trolley Books
Founded2001
FounderGigi Giannuzzi
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationLondon
DistributionInnovative Logistics (US)
Orca Book Services (UK)
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsart and photography
Official website www.trolleybooks.com

Trolley Books is an independent UK publisher, specialising in art and photography books. Areas covered by Trolley include social reportage, photojournalism/current affairs and contemporary art and architecture.

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Founded in September 2001 by Gigi Giannuzzi [1] and based in Fitzrovia London, Trolley Books concentrates on producing documentary photography books. It is "known for its controversial and left-of-centre exhibitions and photography and art books" [2]

Trolley Books is the publishing arm of a family that also includes the Trolley Charitable Trust, whose aim is to support long term photographic projects which result in a Trolley publication, and TJ Boulting, the exhibition space on Riding House Street run by directors Gigi Giannuzzi and Hannah Watson.

Publications

Trolley Books have worked closely with, and published the work of, several Magnum Photos photographers including Chien-Chi Chang, Werner Bischof, Carl De Keyzer, Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli, Paolo Pellegrin, Ilkka Uimonen, and most notably Philip Jones Griffiths. Major publications include Recollections and Agent Orange by Philip Jones Griffiths, Homeland and Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq by Nina Berman, Kurds – Through The Photographer’s Lens by the KHRP and the Delfina Foundation, Chernobyl – The Hidden Legacy by Pierpaolo Mittica and New Londoners – Reflections on Home by the charity Photovoice in association with 12 young refugees, living in London.

Trolley published the first two books by British photographer Robin Maddock, Delta Nigeria: The Rape of Paradise by George Osodi, The Only House Left Standing by Tom Hurndall, The Gentlemen of Bacongo by Daniele Tamagni and A Million Shillings: Escape from Somalia by Alixandra Fazzina, which won the Nansen Refugee Award, the first time this was rewarded to a photographer or journalist.[ citation needed ]

The majority of Trolley's publications are categorised as photojournalism, but the company has also produced contemporary art books, for example several works by Nick Waplington including Double Dactyl (2008), Paul Fryer and Damien Hirst's: Don’t Be So… (2002) and Laureana Toledo's The Limit (2009).[ citation needed ]

Trolley published its first fiction title, The Hardy Tree by Iphgenia Baal [3] in 2011, followed by Baal’s second book of short stories, Gentle Art in 2012.

Awards

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