serendipity books


is an independent publishing studio and creative outlet of photographer Caspar Sessler. Our focus is printed matter based on photography ranging from small scale one-page zines to all out photo books.

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serendipity dispatch #04


Twelve months, a few detours, and plenty of things worth stopping for. This issue follows everyday encounters between built spaces, playful gestures, and unexpected arrangements. Photographs gathered along the way find new neighbours, leaving room for surprise.

Currently at the printer. Soon on paper, ready to wander.

44 pages
17 x 24 cm
saddle stitched
edition of 50

coming soon


serendipity dispatch — issue #03


Scenes gathered between Bremen and Venice, Billund and Lake Constance — not one trip but many short detours. What connects them is a tension between play and gravity: a child inside a shark’s mouth, Lego heads grinning beside blood and metal. Everyday and monumental, private and public, order and chance coexist without resolution. The issue becomes a field of fragments, a record of attention rather than explanation.

44 pages
17 x 24 cm
saddle stitched
edition of 65
fall / winter 25


in caso di incendio


Collected fire-exit instructions from a world that keeps overheating. Half manual, half prayer for a graceful evacuation.

zine
10,5 x 14,8 cm
poster
29,7 x 42 cm

hand folded
edition of 25
2025


niveaux


A meditation on balance and its discontents. The bubble trembles, the ground shifts — and still the camera insists it’s straight.

In colaboration with Kuo-Wei Lin

zine
10,5 x 14,8 cm
poster
29,7 x 42 cm

hand folded
edition of 25
2025


serendipity dispatch — issue #02


California by road: wind farms, freeways, and domesticated wildlife. Between optimism and exhaustion, the photographs follow a landscape built for acceleration — where coincidence becomes the last form of wonder.

48 pages, inkjet printed
15 x 21 cm
hand folded
spiral bound
edition of 42
spring / summer 25


serendipity dispatch — issue #01



Mexico: deserts, snakes, and devotional relics. Between death and renewal, architecture and ecology, the journey traces a shifting border between the sacred and the improvised.

48 pages, inkjet printed
15 x 21 cm
hand folded
spiral bound
edition of 42

out of stock
fall / winter 24


futur ii


The poetry of construction sites: dust, delay, and the promise that one day it will have been finished.

zine
10,5 x 14,8 cm
poster
29,7 x 42 cm

hand folded
edition of 25
2020 - 2025


3,14159265...


A brief hymn to circles, spirals, and the comfort of geometry. Where logic meets dizziness — and perfection remains slightly off-centre.

zine
10,5 x 14,8 cm
poster
29,7 x 42 cm

hand folded
edition of 31,4
2017 - 2025


serendipity dispatch — issue 00


Across Germany: a brutalist chapel, sheep among vines, an AfD rally in a small town. Between myth and asphalt, the road cuts through landscapes of belief, fatigue, and chance encounters — a first attempt to read the country by its edges.

28 pages, inkjet printed
15 x 21 cm
hand folded
spiral bound
edition of 42
spring / summer 24


tomorrow it’s gonna be perfect


Photographs from sites where progress is always just postponed — scaffolding, dust, and the optimism of wet concrete. A study of how perfection keeps moving one day ahead.

originally published by zirka books
graphic design by frederick hüttemann / cabinet gold van’d vlies

newsprint
out of stock
2012