Yannis Kontos has released two new books through Greek publisher, Kastaniotis Editions.

Possible/Impossible: Aporias chronicles a decade of Kontos’ photograpy with a forward by veteran editor John G. Morris. The book opens with a chronicling of the savage but calculated amputation of limbs of civilians in Sierra Leone. It closes with photographs of the mentally deranged victims of neglect in a Serbian hospital. Between these sections we are introduced to a world rife with aporias, an ancient Greek term defined as “a problem or difficulty arising from an awareness of opposing or incompatible views.”

In Red Utopia, Kontos' diligent eye probes life in North Korea, in extremely trying circumstances. Inside Asia's "hermit kingdom," photography is stricty limited to that which official minders permit to be captured on film. Smuggling illicit images out of the country, Kontos has succeeded at providing incites into everyday life in one of the world's last Stalinist holdouts.

Yannis Kontos has released two new books, Possible/Impossible: Aporias and Red Utopia through Greek publisher, Kastaniotis Editions.