Author: Self Publishers United
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Play
It started with a fascination for the Lego structures my then-five-year-old son had started building. I thought they were beautiful and started taking them to my studio to photograph. Many Lego creations later I decided to collect them in a book about play, combined with essays and poetry. To me, play is about following joy,…
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Interview with Jantien de Bruin
Love, Memories, Loss. Creating this book was for me a way of dealing with the grief. Sister Love is a story about Loss, memory, connection and sisters, and it was made after the suicide of my sister in 2015 caused by depression. After my sister’s death, I felt the need to create a memory. Making this…
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Sister Love
Sister Love is a story about Loss, memory, connection en sisters, and is made after the suïcide of my dear sister in 2015. For years, she dealt with heavy depressions and life was getting too hard for her. Hopelessness caused finally this act of desperation. After her death, I felt the need of making a…
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Freckles
Ever since she can remember, photographer Judith Minks has been fascinated by freckles. She has also always sought order. Two contradicting themes in her life and who knows, perhaps the random plotting of freckles triggered her need for order. Her fascination for freckles led to the start of a project in 2017 where she portrayed…
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TinselTown
I met Manolis, a fisherman in his eighties, living alone in a small house at the beach. One day he told me this story at eight o’clock in the morning, while drinking a glass of whiskey together: “You know, I look a lot like Kirk Douglas”, he confided in me, looking very seriously. He proudly…
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Melle
Melle is mijn zoon. Hij is meervoudig gehandicapt. Het is een vrolijke jongen, die in alles ondersteuning nodig heeft van zijn omgeving. Behalve zijn moeder ben ik ook fotograaf. Ik word geboeid door zijn ‘anders’ zijn en de mogelijk- en onmogelijkheden van zijn lichaam. Vol verwondering fotografeer ik hem in allerlei houdingen. Omdat we zo…
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Interview with Cara Louwman
Through various art forms, we brought our family histories into our own lives, What did you enjoy the most about making this book? The best thing about making this book was the collaboration with my sister-in-law Yuen Yee Li. During the process, we found out that we could both be Chinese and Dutch. I became…
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ROOTING
ROOTING by Cara Louwman en Yuen Yee Li Two sisters-in law, Cara Louwman and Yuen Yee Li, a photographer and writer, embarked on a journey to investigate their relationship with their ancestors. They explored what it means to have roots. Through various art forms as photography, Chinese calligraphy and text, they brought their family history into their own lives. As a result…
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Buy My Darlings photo sale event
On Sunday 20 September, Self Publishers United was showcasing and selling its collection of books at the photo sale event ‘Buy My Darlings’. The event was organized by Tara Fallaux and Martijn van der Griendt, at the NDSM site in Amsterdam (Ms. van Riemsdijkweg (MACA & SEXYLAND). More than 30 photographers sold their work during…
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Interview with Tatiana Della Vedova
Photography is my way of telling stories. Stories where place, time and memory merge together to be remembered and to prevent them from fading away. I wanted to tell a story based on my personal family history about how immigrants feel connected to their home country for a long time. That even after several generations…