Trolley Books is an independent UK publisher, specialising in art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 and photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

 books. Areas covered by Trolley include social reportage, photojournalism

Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...

/current affairs and contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 and architecture

Architecture

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

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Founded in September 2001 by Gigi Giannuzzi and based in East London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, Trolley Books has established itself as an imprint that focuses on producing documentary photography

Documentary photography

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit...

 books. Trolley Books is "known for its controversial and left-of-center exhibitions and photography and art books" According to the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards (see awards section below), Trolley presented “(an) exceptional and extraordinary group of books exploring a range of difficult subject matter…Trolley’s beautifully designed and produced books have a real sense of conviction and purpose that sets them apart.”

Trolley Books is the publishing arm of the Trolley family, which also includes Trolley Photos, the brand's photographic agency representing documentary and reportage photographers, and Trolley Gallery

Trolley Gallery

Trolley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Shoreditch, east London, which emerged independently and alongside the already established Trolley Books in 2003. The gallery exhibits the work of new, emerging artists and is often host to first solo shows...

, the exhibition space in London's East End run by Gigi Giannuzzi and co-director Hannah Watson.

Publications

Trolley Books have worked closely with, and published the work of several Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices located in New York, Paris, London and Tokyo...

 photographers including Chien-Chi Chang

Chien-Chi Chang

Chien-Chi Chang is a Taiwanese photographer and member of the Magnum Photos agency.-Life:Born to working-class parents in central Taiwan in 1961, he earned his BA from Soochow University in 1984 and an MS from Indiana University in 1990. He has worked for The Seattle Times and The Baltimore Sun...

, Werner Bischof

Werner Bischof

Werner Bischof was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist.-Early life:Bischof was born in Zürich, Switzerland. When he was six years old, the family moved to Waldshut, Germany, where he subsequently went to school...

, Carl De Keyzer

Carl de Keyzer

Carl de Keyzer is a Belgian contemporary photographer. He was nominated to the Magnum Photos agency in 1990, became an associated member in 1992 and a full member in 1994.-Career:...

, Antoine D'Agata, Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli, Paolo Pellegrin

Paolo Pellegrin

Paolo Pellegrin is an internationally renowned photojournalist who was born in Rome, Italy, into a family of architects.-Biography:...

, Ilkka Uimonen, and most notably Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths was a Welsh photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam war.- Biography :...

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Major publications include Recollections and Agent Orange by Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths was a Welsh photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam war.- Biography :...

, Attack on Gaza by Jan Grarup

Jan Grarup

Jan Grarup is a Danish photojournalist who has worked both as a staff photographer and as a freelance, specializing in war and conflict photography. He has won many prizes including the World Press Photo award for his coverage of the war in Kosovo....

, Homeland and Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq by Nina Berman

Nina Berman

Nina Berman is an American documentary photographer. Her wedding photo of wounded Iraq War veteran Ty Ziegel and his bride, Renee Kline, won the 2007 World Press Photo competition. She is the author of the book Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq portraits and interviews with 20 veterans, 2004...

, Love Me Turkmenistan by Nicolas Righetti, Kurds – Through The Photographer’s Lens by the KHRP and The Delfina Foundation, and New Londoners – Reflections on Home by the charity Photovoice

Photovoice

Photovoice is a method mostly used in the field of community development, public health, and education which combines photography with grassroots social action. Participants are asked to represent their community or point of view by taking photographs, discussing them together, developing...

 in association with 12 young refugees, living in London.
The majority of Trolley's publications are categorised as photojournalism

Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...

, but they have also produced contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 books, for example several works by Nick Waplington

Nick Waplington

The artist and photographer Nick Waplington was born 1970 in Aden and lives in New York City. The eldest of three children, he traveled extensively during his childhood as his father worked as a scientist in the nuclear industry. He studied art at Worthing Art College, Trent Poly and The Royal...

 including Double Dactyl (2008), Paul Fryer and Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst

Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...

's: Don’t Be So… (2002) and most recently Laureana Toledo's The Limit (2009)

Distribution

Previously Trolley books were distributed by Phaidon Press

Phaidon Press

Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...

, worldwide by Prestel

Prestel

Prestel , the brand name for the UK Post Office's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979...

, and are currently distributed by Orca Book Services, which are based in Poole

Poole

Poole is a large coastal town and seaport in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester, and Bournemouth adjoins Poole to the east. The Borough of Poole was made a unitary authority in 1997, gaining administrative independence from Dorset County Council...

, Dorset

Dorset

Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

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Awards

• Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles

Arles

Arles is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence....

 2003, Hide That Can by Deirdre O’Callaghan was awarded the Best Book of the Year

• 19th Annual ICP Infinity Awards 2003, Alex Majoli (Author/photographer of Leros, 2003) was awarded the Photojournalism Category for News or Documentary Projects and Hide That Can by Deirdre O’Callaghan was awarded the Publication category

• Pictures of the Year International 2003, The Chain won the Best Photography Book, Leros was given the Judges’ Special Recognition

• Photo District News

Photo District News

Photo District News is an American monthly trade publication for professional photographers. PDN was first published in 1980. The publication takes its name from New York City's photo district, an area of photo businesses that was once located in Flatiron District.Originally named New York Photo...

 Annual 2003, Leros and The Chain were included in the Best Books category

• Photo-Eye Awards 2003, The Chain nominated in the Best Photography Books category

• Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2004, shortlisted for Zona: Siberian Prison Camps by Carl de Keyzer

Carl de Keyzer

Carl de Keyzer is a Belgian contemporary photographer. He was nominated to the Magnum Photos agency in 1990, became an associated member in 1992 and a full member in 1994.-Career:...

• Golden Light Award 2004, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s Mr Mkhize’s Portrait and other stories from the New South Africa won in the Best Documentary Book category iWITNESS by Tom Stoddart received an honourable mention in the same category

• Making Art Work: The Mike Smith Studio ed. Patsy Craig has been shortlisted for the Historians of British Art Book Prize 2005

• Royal Photographic Society

Royal Photographic Society

The Royal Photographic Society is the world's oldest national photographic society. It was founded in London, United Kingdom in 1853 as The Photographic Society of London with the objective of promoting the Art and Science of Photography...

 2004, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin were awarded the Vic Odden Award for their work on Mr Mkhize’s Portrait and other stories from the New South Africa

• American Photography Awards 2004, both Agent Orange by Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths was a Welsh photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam war.- Biography :...

 and Open Wound: Chechnya 1993-2004 by Stanley Greene

Stanley Greene

Stanley Greene is a photojournalist.Greene was born to middle class parents in Harlem. Both his parents were actors. His father was a union organizer, one of the first African Americans elected as an officer in the Screen Actors Guild, and belonged to the Harlem Renaissance movement...

 were selected as two of the ten Best Photography Books of the year

• Photo District News Annual 2004, Ghetto by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin and Zona by Carl de Keyzer

Carl de Keyzer

Carl de Keyzer is a Belgian contemporary photographer. He was nominated to the Magnum Photos agency in 1990, became an associated member in 1992 and a full member in 1994.-Career:...

 were included in the Best Books category

• World Press Photo

World Press Photo

World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955 the organization is known for holding the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest....

 2004, Stanley Greene

Stanley Greene

Stanley Greene is a photojournalist.Greene was born to middle class parents in Harlem. Both his parents were actors. His father was a union organizer, one of the first African Americans elected as an officer in the Screen Actors Guild, and belonged to the Harlem Renaissance movement...

 was awarded the World Press Photo Award in the Daily Life Story category for Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003

• GRIN Awards (Gruppo redattori iconografici nazionale) winners included Ghetto by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin and The Chain by Chien-Chi Chang

Chien-Chi Chang

Chien-Chi Chang is a Taiwanese photographer and member of the Magnum Photos agency.-Life:Born to working-class parents in central Taiwan in 1961, he earned his BA from Soochow University in 1984 and an MS from Indiana University in 1990. He has worked for The Seattle Times and The Baltimore Sun...

• DAYS JAPAN International Photojournalism Awards 2004, Nina Berman

Nina Berman

Nina Berman is an American documentary photographer. Her wedding photo of wounded Iraq War veteran Ty Ziegel and his bride, Renee Kline, won the 2007 World Press Photo competition. She is the author of the book Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq portraits and interviews with 20 veterans, 2004...

 awarded 2nd prize for Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq

• World Press Photo

World Press Photo

World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955 the organization is known for holding the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest....

 2005, Nina Berman

Nina Berman

Nina Berman is an American documentary photographer. Her wedding photo of wounded Iraq War veteran Ty Ziegel and his bride, Renee Kline, won the 2007 World Press Photo competition. She is the author of the book Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq portraits and interviews with 20 veterans, 2004...

was awarded 2nd prize in the Portraits Series section for Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq

• In March 2005, Trolley Books received a special commendation from the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2004 for its outstanding contribution to photography book publishing.