KILL FOR POINTS

Book
KILL FOR POINTS
Book

Information

January 2026
First Edition of 650
Section-Sewn Softcover
Spot-UV finishing on the front cover picture
444 pages, 220 images
Dimensions: 26 x 21 x 4 cm
ISBN: 978-90-835156-4-9

Description

THE 30TH 550BC TITLE AND THE THICKEST BOOK TO DATE.

Kill For Points examines the Russia–Ukraine war through the rise of FPV drone warfare, where small, improvised aerial weapons deliver point-blank violence and carry the camera into the final moments before impact. It follows how these strikes are recorded, edited, and rapidly shared online, branded with unit identities and circulated like highlight reels, collapsing the boundary between combat, documentation, and performance.

It then traces how this visibility hardens into structure. In the drone war, kills are scored, tallied, and exchanged for equipment, turning violence into measurable output and sustained incentive. What began as improvisation has become a gamified system. ''Kill for points'' is no longer a metaphor, but the language the drone war now speaks.

Disclaimer:
This book contains sensitive and potentially disturbing material depicting real acts of violence. It is included not for spectacle, but to examine how warfare is mediated, aestheticized, and normalized through contemporary circulation. By reproducing what combatants, states, and online audiences openly share and glorify, the book documents this transformation rather than endorsing it.

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550BC is an independent publishing house based in Amsterdam, founded in 2018. Specializing in the complex realities of organized crime and conflict, we explore these subjects through the lens of visual anthropology. Our photo books provide rare, first-person perspectives from within otherwise inaccessible worlds, often created in direct collaboration with those involved. 550BC is also home to a private collection of over 2,000 unique physical items, preserved artifacts from the worlds we document. A selection is presented in our online archive.

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