Category: Books

CHARKOW by Ellen Korth, is about the search for a sense of belonging with on its centre the artist’s mother and her secrets. Her mother fled during World War II from Ukraine through Germany to Holland. She destroyed all personal belongings and concealed her origin. She searched and built her HOMELAND in her daughter. But for her daughter,…

Blueprint – Your skin is the blueprint of your life “To me, beauty is a face of which you see that it has lived: wrinkles that show that you have laughed: the color of your pigment and other external characteristics that connect you to generations that have preceded you: structures of the skin that create…

Twenty-five years ago South Africa held its first inclusive elections. These brought an end to decades of white minority rule. A new constitution gave all South Africans equal rights. As the first black president, Nelson Mandela focused on reconciliation and hope for the future. It would be up to the young generation to make his…

Sandra Minten‘s book: Am viață (I have life) portrays a Romanian family story in full life. It unravels the existence of three generations living together in a small room. A story about a family and thus about us.

Het boek : “Uit – één” gaat over de moeizame relatie tussen een 60-jarige één-eïge tweeling. Het boek is uitverkocht, maar kan op aanvraag nog wel geproduceerd worden. Saskia Bruinsma www.sasfotografie.nl

Lis Leijser is afgestudeerd aan de Foac in mei, met het thema “age”. Gezien de vergrijzing en de economische gevolgen daarvan enerzijds en anderzijds het voorrecht om ouder te worden ,maar niet oud te zijn’, zijn voor mij de inspiratie van deze serie en dit boek. Ik blijf het thema volgen, ben ik gesprek met de…

Cava is een voortzetting van Paradise City, in 2011 door Hans Bol gepubliceerd via Recto Verso Publications. In beide boeken toont de fotograaf zijn interesse in de wereld van het steen. In CAVA toont hij interessante en onverwachte structuren die ontstaan zijn in het delvingsproces.

The book Red by Maaike Navon, is an ode to what can’t be during daytime. It is female. Nighttime. Soft yet disgruntled. When the daily fades and makes space for the suggestive world. A world in which excitement is key. It is raw. The rhythm of subcutaneous adrenaline. Of intuition and experimentation. It is inevitable.…

At the fictive address ’21 Nyx Boulevard’ the sense of lack and emptiness creates a new world. The inside is not the right scale, the outside appears to be without depth and fantasy worlds seem to be reality. Category undefined, location unknown. This alienation fascinates me, and it is my translation of homelessness, disruption and…