2010
- Comfort Women/Troostmeisjes (Ipso Facto/Seltmann+Söhne Utrecht/Lüdenscheid)
- Bouwwerk. Mensen maken het museum (limited edition, Rijksmuseum. Assignment by the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
2008
- Bureaucratics, ed. Martin Parr (Nazraeli Press, Portland, OR, ISBN 1-59005-232-7).
Documentary portraits of government officials in eight countries across the globe
2007
- Binnen is het donker, buiten is het licht (photo/text book with author Dick Wittenberg: Atlas, Amsterdam, ISBN 978-90-450-1466-1),
about life in poverty in the countryside of Malawi, Africa.
2005
- Traces of War: Survivors of the Burma and Sumatra Railways (Trolley Books, London, ISBN 1-904563-46-5).
Photos of and interviews by Banning with 24 Dutch and Indonesian men, including the photographer’s father, who were forced to build railroads for the Japanese during World War II
2003
- Sporen van oorlog. Overlevenden van de Birma- en de Pakanbaroe-spoorweg (Ipso Facto, Utrecht, ISBN 90-77386-01-7),
the Dutch version of Traces of War
1997
- Pulang. Terug naar Maluku (Focus, Amsterdam, ISBN 90-72216-76-8), photo book documenting the repatriation of an elderly Moluccan couple from The Netherlands to the Indonesian Moluccas.
1993
Vietnam: Doi Moi (Focus, Amsterdam, ISBN 90-72216-38-5).
Photo book about social, economic and cultural changes in post-war Vietnam, with a text by Banning in English and Dutch
Banning was the photographer for numerous books, including Burma behind the Mask (BCN, Amsterdam 1997, with an introduction by Aung San Suu Kyi); The Prize of Paradise (Inmerc, Wormer, 2004, about the new EU-countries, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture); and A Day in the Life of Thailand (Collins, San Francisco, 1995)
