The Selfies of Jonas Unger

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The Selfies of Jonas Unger is German photographer Jonas Unger’s years-long investigation into how close a portrait can get to its subject. In this seductive photobook, Karl Lagerfeld, David Lynch, Rossy de Palma and dozens of others from the glittering corners of fashion, film, and sport turn the lens on themselves, caught in ways you’ve never seen before. Handing his camera to his sitters and stepping out of the frame, Jonas tampers with the role of the photographer, surrendering the lens and some of its authority, while never wholly relinquishing his own.

Celebrity, honesty, and dramaturgy meet the defining photographic phenomenon of our time: the self-taken photograph. Moving through philosophical dives and detours, the photobook catches people shaped by the limelight at the moment control over their image briefly changes hands. Gathered over more than a decade, these self-portraits, known also as his ‘Autoportraits’, form a book about the puzzles of authorship and spectatorship. How close can a portrait get? And what are we really seeing when someone famous looks back at themselves?

The Selfies of Jonas Unger follows on from our growing photobook catalogue after Coincidence by American photographer Jeremy Liebman, shortlisted for the 2026 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, and the quirky Birds of Paradise by Spanish photographer Ángela Suárez.

About Jonas Unger
Jonas Unger is a German photographer living and working between Paris and Berlin. He is known for portrait, fashion, and editorial photography with a direct, intimate approach. His editorial work has appeared in Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Vogue, W Magazine, Interview, and many more. Alongside his commissioned work, Jonas develops long-term personal projects. The best known is his series of celebrity self-portraits, begun around 2010, which was first shown as Autoportraits at Galerie Derouillon in Paris in 2014 and later included in Ego Update at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. His work has received the LeadAward and the Hansel Mieth Prize (2013).

Published by Apartamento Publishing S.L.
Release date: November 4, 2026
Dimensions: 240 x 210mm
Pages: 96
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-84-09-92117-1