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HOPPER&FUCHS and STOCKMANS ART BOOKS The Collection
We are a haven for our artists and we build a home for their books every day. The beauty of the people we collaborate with is what inspires us. First and foremost we care for the human stories behind the façade of our operations, which motivate us to create something together with you. The myriad of art practices challenges us to make each book publication a unique one. From painting to photography, from dance or theater and opera to architecture and sculpture, from drawing to fashion and textiles. We love to take care of the artist and build an extra stage and space for them within the book. What defines us is a sincere love of paper, typography and other serious matters in constructing the anatomy of the book. Our habitat is nested in high tech print technology with the smell of dripping ink in our workshop in Belgium, surrounded by the humming sound of printing machinery, boiling with activity. Innovative technology and artisanal skills fuse into our vision to create sustainable books for the future. Bruno Devos’ signature is ‘curating art books’ and this condenses our culture and philosophy in making books and experiencing the process. Lately we have been focusing on the deepening of our relationship with artists, publishers, architects, bookshops, institutions and galleries. We are proud to present to you our books. Always welcome to visit our ateliers in Belgium!
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Stig De Block
Stig De Block Back to Back: From Backyard to Boulevard I spent 4 years, 9 months & 1000’s of miles on the dash, documenting an honest & intimate story about the lowrider scene in Los Angeles, California, USA. I can vividly remember the first lowrider event I attended in Los Angeles. I had driven out on a Sunday in October 2018 to attend an event called Sunday Funday. The concept is self-explanatory: Everybody comes together to have fun on Sunday, without any bullshit, with a common love for lowriders. It was located at the intersection of Rosecrans on South Broadway, on the border between Compton and Carson, in an industrial area—a very long boulevard with factory buildings and warehouses. When I first showed up in the early afternoon, there weren’t that many people out. But within one hour, the whole place was packed with barbecue vendors and people selling t-shirts and merchandise. I feel like there were 500 to 800 people there that day. And for me it was like, “Wow, all the
things that I’ve been interested in my whole life—L.A. culture, architecture, cars, and rap music—all come together in one place here.” ... This project is a way to participate in a culture that I grew up with, but never was a part of because of the geographical distance. By documenting it, I feel a form of participation. I pursue Back to Back to celebrate the lowrider as a muse and to accurately represent the people behind it. To those who are involved in the project: Thank you. I’m forever grateful and carry you in my heart. – Peace and Love. Stig De Block
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Paperback 330 x 245 mm 1,20 kg EN 240 Vrints-Kolsteren
€ 50,00 - ISBN 9789464002089 7
PHOTOGRAPHY
Bruno V. Roels
Bruno V. Roels Trying to make it real, part 1 & part 2 “I think images are worth repeating.” Bringing many years of work together in a single place, here on the page, rather than on the walls of a museum or gallery, we can consider both senses in which Roels thinks images are worth repeating. In the obstinate and dedicated labour of printing and arranging serial, but different, versions of single images together; and then also with regard to the overall effect of bringing these iterations of themselves into the same space. But there is another sense in which we might find Roels’s work echoing not only itself, but that of those that came before him; and that, funnily enough, is in his refusal to take himself, or his work, too seriously. Just seriously enough, it seems, to invest time, effort, and skill into the production of his complex and subtly nuanced work, but never to the point, that, like Ruscha before him, (the artist who made Various Small Fires and Milk),
he finds himself unable to resist, and more importantly, to play with, the constraints of his own logic. A little like Dalí too, perhaps, who, captivated as he was by the potential of photography to document and catalogue the world, was also sure that this very capacity would result in us never being able to see anything in the same way, ever again. From ‘the subtlety of aquaria’ as Dalí himself put it ’to the fastest most fleeting gestures of wild animals, the photograph affords us a thousand fragmentary images culminating in a dramatized cognitive totalization.’ That too, is something worth repeating.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Paperback 300 x 220 mm 1,40 kg EN / FR 336 Reg Herygers
– Simon Baker
€ 60,00 - ISBN 9789464002041 9
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ren Hang
Ren Hang 我母親 - For my mother Sheer visual poetry; the naked human body represented in fragile compositions Chinese artist Ren Hang’s photographs are painfully provocative, but also inward looking and dreamily surreal. His genderqueer compositions are explicitly erotic but never pornographic. Hang depicts the human body as an abstract form, often in idiosyncratic arrangements and perspectives, referencing and simultaneously overwriting well-known motifs and traditions from Western art. He combines iconic images of William Shakespeare’s dying Ophelia in a river surrounded by flowers; of Leda, daughter of a Greek king, and the Swan; and of female nudes seen from behind using a distinctive visual vocabulary that draws on abstraction, Surrealism, Dada, and both historic and contemporary photography. Ren Hang’s analog photographs use a playful, humorous visual language to
relate the feelings, desires, fears, and loneliness of a young generation in China. His works stand as symbols of the youth’s rebellion against the conventions of a restrictive communist regime in which nudity and sexual freedom are subject to government censure and control even up to the present day. Most of the people portrayed are the artist’s friends, but they remain unnamed and anonymous, and the images bear neither title nor place nor date. Although carefully staged, they are infused with an element of fleetingness and evanescence that is often the result of the artist’s quick way of working.Ren Hang’s photographs are a rare ode to human beings, their bodies, sexuality, beauty, and vulnerability.
Ren Hang (b. 1987 in Changchun, China, d. 2017 in Beijing) was a photographer and poet. His work has gained a growing posthumous following and immense popularity worldwide. Up to his death by suicide at the age of twenty-nine, Hang lived and worked in Beijing.
– C/O Berlin, Exhibition ‘Love, Ren Hang’
€ 50,00 - ISBN 9789464002003
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Hardcover 280 x 220 mm 0,65 kg EN 64
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Jacques Sonck
Jacques Sonck Twice Twins, twice with a twist Jacques Sonck is a discrete and introverted artist who portrays our society in a very genuine way. He shows us our fellow citizens up close, his vision is tender yet sharp; his seemingly objective approach is sprinkled with a delicate touch of humour though. Each and every one of us could end up in front of his lens. Most banal physical appearances as well as peculiar profiles, all genders, skin colours, sizes, religions, shy individuals and fully aware ones; all at once they all sense this moment of strength. Sonck’s portraits are the outcome of street encounters, no other appointments in any form are made. Jacques Sonck makes his subjects feel totally comfortable, one can witness ephemeral deep contacts in full trust in
these remarkable portraits. He has this rare human gift of being able to approach strangers and ask them to open up to be captured on film. These encounters are furtive and truthful, they come to full bloom in particularly refined gelatin silver prints. This new publication was initiated by Jean-Michel Meyers (also the graphic designer of the book) who came up with the idea of focusing on one aspect of Sonck’s rich oeuvre, in this case, pairs. All kinds of pairs: couples, friends, twins, relatives, siblings, but in the end it doesn’t really matter which link exactly binds them. In this book we are triggered to know what exactly binds the two individuals, we are secretly fascinated by identical twins, by the sometimes bizarre duos, by the
mysterious relations. I’m pleased to invite you to dive into this specific world of binômes within the rich oeuvre of Jacques Sonck. – Extract text by Roger Szmulewicz, Gallery Fifty One
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Paperback Measurements 236 x 167 mm Weight 0,26 kg Language EN / FR Number of pages 88 Book design Jean-Michel Meyers
€ 35,00 - ISBN 9789464002133 13
FASHION / PHOTOGRAPHY
Marleen Daniëls
Marleen Daniëls From Sarajevo To Paris Thirty years of backstage photography in Paris and Milano Sarajevo to Paris, fashion or reportage, deciding on the title of a book is mindboggling. I call myself a documentary photographer that accidentally ended up doing fashion. The end of the ‘80s was an interesting and intense time in world history, and a particularly creative time in the world of fashion. As a young female photographer I was interested in both worlds. I was travelling for newspapers and magazines to the fashion weeks in Milan and Paris and to the conflict zones of Lebanon and Iraq. It was during the war in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the siege of Sarajevo that I matured in documentary photography, fortunately without being injured.
Thirty years later, when looking back, those two worlds – documentary and fashion – still define my work. Both are equally represented in my archives. This book, of my fashion work, is the first to be published. I called it Sarajevo to Paris because sometimes I would travel directly from one to the other. These two cities had a big impact on my life. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS – Marleen Daniëls Published by Stockmans Art Books
Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Hardcover 276 x 210 mm 2,50 kg EN 816 Nousjka Daniëls
€ 100,00 - ISBN 9789077207925 15
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Isabel Pousset
Isabel Pousset My true lovestory I’ll ask someone else to come along ;-) Another crush Another crush? Other than you? Who says you’re a crush? My true lovestory is a search book of 7 sweethearts +1, a messy account of an illegal dumping man with a beating heart.
giggles in the twilight. But above all, it’s none of your business! The apps in this paper find are intended for someone else.
Everyone is afraid of love, especially the love that is yet to come. Justly! Being a find is not easy. Because what if no one sees you? What if no one recognizes you! And after that! If someone thinks your so-and-so wants to move all your pathetic furniture! The glass box with who you really are. Looking for love is not safe.
Okay then, you can read them, if you can, if you dare. What kind of detective are you? One with a smelly raincoat? Or one with a nose for pollen and carbonated lemonade. What are you looking for in love? Because My true lovestory is also about you. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS – Text by An Olaerts
Browse My true lovestory. Look again! Who who, why? And how many plates were on the table? In the morning too? Because sometimes visitors stay asleep. Sometimes it says the wrong things, way too tough or way too tacky or too rushed. My true lovestory is a very exciting story, because failure is lurking along with
Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Loose leaf 148 x 103 mm 0,11 kg EN / NL 80
€ 30,00 - ISBN 9789464002126 17
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lize Rubens
Lize Rubens Discobolus What is the weight of your Discobolus? I confess: this book is not about bodybuilding. Well, not exclusively. It is about the aesthetics and mental strength underlying the sport. About the pursuit of unattainable perfection, the emergence of ideals of beauty and their influence. About mental strength and inner focus. About everyone’s particular Discobolus. I alternate between conflicting thoughts. Extreme perseverance is often astonishing as well as alarming. I am fascinated by this paradox, many questions simultaneously fight for a place in my head. I project this idea onto our daily actions and thinking and ask myself: is overcoming inner insecurity a legitimate or deceptive driving force for achievement? Why is it that we associate so much happiness with the beauty we pursue? Does the gain in self-esteem outweigh
the damage to the body or psyche? Is our outer façade our daily stage performance? What lurks beneath the skin? In the quest for mental strength, inner focus and personal balance, do we also take into account the proverbial ‘backpack’ of experiences that have scarred us? And will that backpack get lighter in time, or are we like a whale that would collapse under its own weight on land... What is the weight of your Discobolus? – Extract text by Lize Rubens
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book Design
Paperback 225 x 165 mm 0,50 kg EN 176 Tina De Souter
€ 40,00 - ISBN 9789464002171 19
PHOTOGRAPHY
Anniek Snoeijs
Anniek Snoeijs Bloom “What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh. - A.A. Milne Sexual transgressive behavior is a major social problem anywhere in the world and one that is terribly taboo. I had to deal with such a traumatic experience myself. For 7 years I did not dare to talk about it. Through making this book, I managed to talk about this experience more easily. ‘Bloom’ contains photos of my own healing process. The pictures show feelings I was dealing with throughout the process. The dark photos represent the somber and difficult moments and the light photos represent hope and healing. My book also shows 11 portraits of women who had to deal with sexual transgressive behavior too. Some of the women wanted to share their story in the book. The unidentifiable portraits depict the taboo surrounding this subject as where the plain portraits show
strength and courage. All the women who participated in this project played an incredibly important role in my healing process. Because of this, I have found hope and strength again. – Anniek Snoeijs
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Paperback 235 x 165 mm 0,24 kg EN 96
€ 35,00 - ISBN 9789464002065 21
PHOTOGRAPHY
Karien Vandekerkhove
Karien Vandekerkhove Dear Light, dearest dearest Light Light doing what light does The work of the physicist might be summed up like this: to take the everyday, to make it strange, and then to recover the prosaic from the strangeness. Perhaps not exactly to make it strange, for it’s not up to physicists how the world behaves. To reveal the strangeness, then. What the physicist is asking for is a willingness to accept that there is strangeness in the everyday, rather than complaining “It can’t be like that!” The same might be said for the artist, and this collection of photographs by Karien Vandekerkhove shows why. The images could hardly be more prosaic in one sense. A glass of water on the table. Shadows on the wall. Reflections in the glass. Light doing what light does: that’s all. Offering clues, not all of them reliable.
... It’s no exaggeration to say that the shadows in Vandekerkhove’s images pose questions of the same sort. What is causing them? What do they imply about the world beyond our field of vision? If we turned around, what will we see? They too are hints of something missing, of the limits of our perception. They are traces made of light and dark, and we are mere spectators. – Extract text by Philip Ball
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Paperback 240 x 170 mm 0,18 kg EN 64 Kim Beirnaert
€ 30,00 - ISBN 9789464002102 23
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Yolanda Y. Liou
Yolanda Y. Liou Thank You For Playing With Me “Then it suddenly clicked – I am a photographer. I create images. Images don’t create me.” Taiwan-born, London based photographer Yolanda Y. Liou’s photobook ‘Thank You For Playing With Me’ collaborates with Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama and Vanessa Russell over the course of three years, photographically playing together.
the underlying motivations, the origins of my perception of beauty and to reflect on my intention as a photographer.
“Growing up in Taiwan, the pressure to conform to a standard beauty in Asia was relentless and it took a toll on me physically and mentally. I was trying to be more like the perfect people I saw in the media, so that I could feel more worthy of love.
In 2019, I came across Enam’s Instagram profile and was enchanted by her charisma. I didn’t recognise her confidence at the time – being comfortable in your own skin. Then it suddenly clicked – I am a photographer. I create images. Images don’t create me. I wanted to do something. I wanted to show there is more. I wanted to make people feel good about themselves.
When I started to make photographs, I became obsessed with capturing beautiful people – in a society’s conventional ideal way. Later on, I realised I was compensating for my own struggle with a low self-esteem and began to question
I proposed to Enam to do a photoshoot and she invited her best friend Vanessa to join. I asked them to authentically express themselves. Throughout the day, we shot from outdoors to indoors, experimenting with our own various styles and props.
When it was a wrap, I was overwhelmed with joy and warmth, like I had spent the day playing with my sisters. I expressed my gratitude by saying, “Thank you for playing with me!” – Yolanda Y. Liou
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Paperback 216 x 279 mm 0,60 kg EN 128
€ 45,00 - ISBN 9789464363579 27
PHOTOGRAPHY
Kaat Pype
Kaat Pype Stand-in “I’m only a stand in. After all’s said and done ... What a dreamer I’ve been. I’m just standing in” Kaat Pype has been making extraordinary portraits for many years. For this, she often works with an assistant, who takes the sitter’s place in advance, so that technique, pose and concept are well prepared. Pype has now collected all these stand-in images in a book. Each time the same man in front of the camera, not self-conscious. Each time the same man. Page after page. Each time the same man, functionally present, though never about him. As a result, the book of the stand-in raises questions. When does an image of someone become a portrait? Does the stand-in acquire his own identity through the hundred-plus images? Does he become a character? Does the viewer get to know something more about him? What we know for sure is that Kaat Pype is showing something here that did not want attention, something that would
not be shown. Her first book STAND-IN took shape at Katrien Anys’ work table, where the two-part cover took its current form. The handwritten, stand-in cover, surrounding the printed, bound cover. It has been a common thread in Kaat Pype’s artistic projects for years. he reverses roles, subverts perspectives. She decontextualises. STAND-IN is above all also an ode to love, a tribute to her husband.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Hardcover 150 x 230 mm 0,45 kg EN 176
€ 50,00 - ISBN 9789464363470 29
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lin Zhipeng
Lin Zhipeng aka No.223 An exhibition catalogue with a Stockmans Art Books upgrade: includes sealed orange foil envelope and sticker Lin Zhipeng is among the leading artists of the so-called generation of the eighties. Taking his name from a police character in Wong Kar-Wai’s movie Chungking Express, his work first gained notoriety through social media, online platforms and self-published zines. His diary-like booklets and photographs represent an emerging group in Chinese society that seeks to explore new boundaries in their lives. Through Lin Zhipeng’s depictions of figures and nature mortes in flashy colours, flowers, interiors and nudes in soft colours, we see a new generation experimenting with novel pleasures unfamiliar to the conventional middle class world. The images are in an atmosphere of love, playfulness, erotism and joy.
This booklet is made for Lin Zhipeng’s fourth exhibition ‘Mystery Skin’ at Stieglitz19 Gallery, September 2023..
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Singer stitch Paperback Measurements 210 x 297 mm Weight 0,16 kg Language EN Number of pages 32
€ 35,00 - ISBN 9789464363449 31
PHOTOGRAPHY
Paul D’Haese
Paul D’Haese Replica Falsifica A collection of “archetypal” images, photographs of landscapes and of objects found on the net and photographied Conceived in the form of an artist’s book, Replica Falsifica is a collection of “archetypal” images, photographs of landscapes and of objects found on the net and photographied.
seem to mirror. As in the previous series Winks of tangency and “Borderline”, it’s a wish to unmask the make-believe and misleading tangent of images through this “collection” which verges on abstraction.
These images oscillate between fiction and reality. The result is a “promenade” through unusual landscapes that refer to a cultural past and collective imagery. In black and white, printed on a concretelooking cardboard and unfolding in the form of a 36-pages Leporello, Replica Falsifica looks like a collection of “false friends”. The texts that accompany the images would seem to be a guide and an aid to understanding. The very opposite is true in fact, as the “poems” by the author and essayist Eric Min (BE, 1959) only add to the viewer’s confusion, as they are disconnected from the images they
Photography: Paul D’Haese Authors: Eric Min & Jean-Marc Bodson Form: David Boon & Paul D’Haese Printing: Milo-Profi Binding: Tatsuya Inuikawa 34 images, 32 texts, 2 x 36 pages Black & white, fine art print / grey cardboard & case Images of the publication: Paul D’Haese and David Boon In collaboration with HANGAR Photo Art Center & CONTRETYPE
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements open Measurements folded Weight Language Number of pages
Leperello 6900 x 220 mm 280 x 220 mm 500 kg EN 72
€ 95,00 33
PHOTOGRAPHY / FASHION / ARCHIVE
Man Ray
Man Ray Man Ray and Fashion Shedding light on MAN RAY, with his fundimental, shapeshifting oeuvre ‘Man Ray and Fashion’ shows photos he took for leading couturiers such as Paul Poiret, Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel, and major fashion magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair and Vogue. With technical ingenuity and humor, Man Ray innovated the way clothing is depicted. His inventive processes and surrealistic winks have had a lasting influence on fashion photography and brought fashion and art closer together. Contemporary fashion designers also find inspiration in his work, in particular the Belgians with their predilection for surrealism.
The exhibition ‘Man Ray and Fashion’ (MoMu, 2023) unites his iconic photography and artwork with fashion silhouettes from the interwar period and the work of contemporary fashion designers and photographers who are inspired by his work. This book was made for ‘Man Ray and Fashion’ with MoMu (Fashion Museum Antwerp). TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Paperback 290 x 220 mm 0,86 kg EN 176
€ 39,00 - ISBN 9789464363364 35
PHOTOGRAPHY
Karel Fonteyne
Karel Fonteyne Spell An overview of 50 years of contemporary and fashion photography Introducing Karel Fonteyne, one of Belgium’s foremost contemporary and fashion photographers. Since 1968 the artist has created an extensive oeuvre that has its place in the history of photography. His timeless visual storytelling relates to nature, darkness and loneliness, the inner world, and esotericism, while touching uncovered dimensions and layers. As a flagship figure in Belgian and international fashion photography, Karel Fonteyne’s career in that genre spanned more than 15 years. His rather experimental style gave rise to pioneering images that went beyond classical fashion photography. In 1996, he decided to give up fashion photography to develop once again a more personal work. Karel Fonteyne is a non-conformist. He plays with codes, deconstructs reality and
prefers the complex to the obvious. “I usually don’t photograph what I see but how my mind reflects it”. Spell reads like a journey through the photographer’s mind, jumping from photo to photo, from black and white to colour, from staged to spontaneous, from conceptual to fashion photography. The concept story has a direct influence on the variety of techniques. Concurrently homogeneous and heterogeneous, personal and universal, his work is an invitation to construct one’s own narrative. Karel Fonteyne’s images awaken the senses and transport us into another universe. They tell a story without words. 468 pages of the best possible offset printing techniques mastered at Stockmans Art Books.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Hardcover 310 x 240 mm 2,27 kg EN / NL / FR 468 Onno Hesselink
€ 75,00 - ISBN 9789077207789 37
PHOTOGRAPHY
Hanne Van Assche
Hanne Van Assche LUCKY / Udachny How a sleepy town in Siberia is enlightened and portraited by the snowy glitter of black iced diamonds In the far East of Russia lies a small mining town called Udachny. It is located in Yakutia, a remote region captured in the icy grip of winter most of the year. A frozen world of dense taiga and immense tundra zones — hardy pine trees, rushing rivers, and impressive mountains. Few people choose to live here, but those who do are proud citizens. Yakutia is known as the treasury of Russia. It is one of the world’s richest regions in natural resources. According to Siberian legend, God once spilled a bag of earthly treasures over this part of the country. A thick layer of permafrost covers large reserves of coal, gas, gold and – diamonds.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Paperback 300 x 245 mm 0,75 kg EN 144 Amélie Verleene
€ 45,00 - ISBN 9789464363159 39
PHOTOGRAPHY
Kumi Oguro
Kumi Oguro Hester A brief physiognomy of images ‘so I assumed there would be, at some point, a door with a glittering knob, but when this would happen and where I had no idea.’ – Louise Glück, Faithful And Virtuous Night, 2014 One could easily establish quite a precise typology by looking at the images collected and placed in HESTER by Kumi Oguro (the word ‘image’ is used on purpose here, instead of photography or photographic work). Here, we can see – and this list is not exhaustive – female figures, parts of bodies, closed-off interiors that are often empty, abandoned or run-down, spaces, floors and wide-open ceilings, plays on natural or artificial light, the presence of mirrors that are concealed to varying degrees, trivial accessories such as fabrics, curtains, clothes, woollen
threads, cotton, chairs and armchairs that have become worn with use, small figurines, marbles or festive confetti, primary colours and other shades that are, frankly, lacklustre. But, proceeding in this manner, would we knowingly enter this world, of which Kumi Oguro shows us carefully designed and selected sections? A world – a story – that is equally about what she wants to reveal, but which she does not describe to us, and what we are encouraged to discover on our own. – Alain Delaunois
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
OTA-bind 263 x 210 mm 0,41 kg FR / JP / EN 104
€ 40,00 - ISBN 9789464363036 41
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Florine Thiebaud
Florine Thiebaud Breaking Point An intimate, touching and female gaze on the refugee crisis in idyllic Greece Since 2016 I am working on the subject of exile in Greece. Here, “Breaking Point” is about people waiting for their papers. After my project “Exiles” (2016-2017) in Lesbos and Agios Efstratios, I traveled regularly on the island Chios and then Leros, Athens and Oenofyta, between 2017 and 2019. In Chios I quickly met Edmond and Feras. Both of my age and forced to live in Vial camp since a few months already, we were spending a lot of time together, and they explained to me the conditions on the island, the process to follow, and their hopes for the future. I met Mustapha at the same time and he directly introduced me to Soumaya, Sally, Razan and their family. They arrived at the same time than Edmond and Feras and were rehoused in a temporary apartment. Often invited at
their place, I followed their file processing, the positive answer for Athens, the school enrollment and their concerns for the future. Following my project in Lesbos, I witnessed the situation getting worse for people arriving in Greece. Going there regularly, I saw my contacts loosing hope and having to face a system seeking to discourage them from staying or going further.
book as a necessary achievement and allowing me to pay tribute to their resilience.
“Breaking Point” comes from the time I spent with Feras, lively talks with Edmond, afternoons spent with Mariam and her sisters, explanations from Mustapha, empty days and some full along Diallo and Sylla, difficult times, wonderings in Athens, exchanges inside Oenofyta camp with Nazar and in Vial with Sadam, and from the time granted by so many people. I see the publication of this
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Paperback 300 x 235 mm 0,65 kg EN 160
€ 40,00 - ISBN 9789464363197 43
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Eva Faché
Eva Faché Que Deus Reparta A Sorte A tale of bulls and horses, prayers and family Eva Faché had never attended a bullfight before. Nor was it her deepest wish to do so. Yet when the student exchange program Erasmus brought her to Lisbon, it somehow happened. In the afternoon of the 17th of February 2017 Eva had an appointment with Antonio Vacas de Carvalho (º1991) in front of Campo Pequeno in Lisbon, Portugal’s most prestigious bullfighting arena. Antonio presented himself as the ‘cabo’ (captain) of the Forcados Amadores group of Montemor, a small town in the Alentejo region. Before they embarked into a conversation, he gently asked Eva to clarify why a young Belgian photographer was interested in bullfighting, and what would be the purpose of her documentary photo project. “I explained I didn’t know much about bullfighting. That I was curious
and wanted to find out how the ‘corrida de touros’ or ‘tourada’ as the Portuguese call bullfighting survived so many centuries, and why it’s still so important to him and his friends. That I was eager to photograph their reality, with an open mind.” This is key to Eva’s general approach: “When people decide to share their stories with me, I consider it my duty as a photographer to be open to whatever they come up with. I capture the raw, unfiltered visual aspects of a story. Analysis and interpretation are for later.” This is also how Eva started her project in Portugal, for which she would be immersed in the bullfighting world. Soon she would realise to what extent this is a world apart, with its own rules, hierarchy, rituals and realities. And how exceptional it was she had been given full access to it.
here is a pauze exactly at the heart of T the book. Here you find the story of the bulls, families, tradition and culture that takes place in the ring. This was printed on brown paper that resembles the colour of the Portugese sand.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Swiss Binding 225 x 185 mm 0,40 kg EN / PT 132 Tina De Souter
€ 40,00 - ISBN 9789077207970 45
PHOTOGRAPHY
Hanne Lamon
Hanne Lamon Until the End, I will follow you The photographer creates images that throw light on a fragile and intimate world For two decades, Hanne Lamon (°1982) has been making tranquil photographs of her everyday life that possess an unruly beauty. For Lamon, photography is a neverending process. For the artist’s book Until The End ___ I Will Follow You, she tried to reveal the foundation of her photographic production, which turns out to be fragile and contradictory. This fragile, precious gem was created on the basis of intuition and rationality, on a fast and unconscious, yet similarly deliberate and slow way of thinking. Some thirty ambiguous images were printed on wafer-thin paper, like photographic ice crystals in which time has been frozen. Tina De Souter gave the book a sober and elegant design, further enriched with a poetic text by Birsen Uçar - also known as the voice of the atmospheric dream
pop band Hydrogen Sea. The various production phases were carefully executed in consultation with Bruno Devos, the driving force behind publishing house Stockmans. Lamon’s poetic universe evinces great sensibility and melancholy. The photographer creates images that throw light on a fragile and intimate world. Lamon focuses on human body language, subtle touches and draperies as well as mysterious landscape scenes and abstract compositions. She experiments with film photography, specific types of paper and manual, graphic printing processes. Her choices are well thought out and attest to a longing for an artisanal and tactile beauty. The images are deeply rooted in personal struggles, turbulences and feelings of loss and hope. The photographer translates her struggles and conflicting emotions into a metaphorical and often dark imagery
that conceals and reveals. Even though the photographs emerge from the artist’s very own personal environment, they are nonetheless timeless, connective and universal. They suggest narratives and memories that possess a moving familiarity. – Sofie Crabbé
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Singerstich 232 x 166 mm 0,10 kg EN 64 Tina De Souter
€ 32,00 - ISBN 9789077207864 47
PHOTOGRAPHY
Oxiea Villamonte
Oxiea Villamonte Next of Kin Rock n’ Roll photography with a strong front woman. Next of Kin tells my story through three different generations of women. It’s not a linear one, neither a chronological one. It is an intertwining story where the past and the present try to connect with each other as well as disconnect. My identity is deeply influenced by my mother and how she has raised me. When looking in a mirror I see my mother staring back at me. While embracing these similarities, there still runs a fear through me of repeating similar choices. This path of finding my own identity has lead met to Chicago, the place where I was born. By using the archive of my mother when she was my age, I try to deceive the viewer into thinking we are one person. This feeling even gets reinforced in the similarity of the style and the people we choose to surround us with.
In the meanwhile my grandmothers’ voice echoes throughout the book in the form of questions right before she died. My grandmother and mother shared also this almost identical relationship as I do with my mother. Next to this search in finding similarities, I also try to find a way to distinguish myself. This distinction I find in my alternate self, that I call Zillah… – Oxiea Villamonte TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Paperback 297 x 210 mm 0,37 kg EN 108
€ 35,00 - ISBN 9789077207796 49
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jeroen Robert Kramer
Jeroen Robert Kramer Une Femme Beirut, years before the explosion. Who are you? Would you like to join me for a walk? “Une Femme shows that ‘truth’ is irrelevant. Une Femme is an enigmatic and evocative story with a remarkable dénouement. It is also a beautiful exhibition, in which the present and the past are interwoven in Jeroen Robert Kramer’s poetic photographs of Beirut.” This unique limited edition book is both a photo book and a novel. It is compiled of 170 pages of text and 170 photos. Designed in the style of the famous Editions Gallimard novels, Une Femme takes you on a road trip in the streets of Beirut, in search of meaning, in search of oneself. Jeroen Robert Kramer (1967, Amsterdam) lived and worked in Beirut, Lebanon for more than 10 years. Today he lives and works in Amsterdam. After studying
French literature in France, in 2000 he started working in the Middle East as a documentary photographer for Getty Images, de Volkskrant, Der Spiegel, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and others. His photographs were used in articles on the Middle East, Africa, Afghanistan, Burma (now Myanmar), and the Philippines. Today he focuses on his artistic practice as an art photographer. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Paperback 220 x 154 mm 0,89 kg FR 344
€ 28,00 - ISBN 9789490503055 51
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Bram Van Stappen
Bram Van Stappen RATIO How to portray 117 human beings in black and white, who turn their backs to us “A glance and a silent body, trapped in a common, but non-reciprocal situation.” – Michel Foucault, in: The Birth of the Clinic The work Ratio consists of 117 images featuring the same number of naked men and women photographed from behind. Bram Van Stappen made the series as part of the exhibition Back, organised in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2021. Over a period of six weeks, the photographer set up a field studio and invited visitors to undress and take place in front of the camera, yet face the opposite direction. Set in a generic surrounding and central composition, evenly lit and tightly cropped, the resultant black-and-white images display a form of (anti)portraiture that seems above all to be a study
in paradox. For how do we read this collection of head- and legless torsos that do not even face us? How can bodies this naked and exposed appear so walled off and private? So unique and at the same time universal? – Dominique Somers
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Hardcover 220 x 165 mm 0,42 kg EN 136 Alexander Tolaro
€ 40,00 - ISBN 9789464363241 53
PHOTOGRAPHY
Steve Dean Mendes
Steve Dean Mendes Emotions In Between Emotions A tear tore apart the mask This art book invites you to step in an emotional journey through Fine Art portraiture. Since 2018 Steve started working on this project. In a world where Photoshop creates the stereotype of perfect and flawless images, he decided to row against the stream and do just the opposite as a photographer. By deciding not to retouch his images and not to use makeup for his models, only using natural light in the studio, Steve Dean Mendes created a safe environment for his protagonists, initiating a process of removing all masks. In this series I prefer working predominantly with women and I try, through art, to facilitate the experience for self-discovery and acceptance. He captures raw and unaltered emotions and presents a story of love, joy, but also of pain, suffering and abandonment.
Inspired by the great Flemish Old masters and the Pre-Raphaelite movement, he wants to show real human beings with all their natural fragility and beauty of the soul. Emotions In Between Emotions is a book about love and hope. This art book invites you to step in an emotional journey through Fine Art portraiture, while guiding you back to the roots of your own self… just like it did with Steve himself. The book was bound as a hardcover with pale, skin-toned linnen. Asymmetrically placed you can see an image that represents the inside of the book: comfort and consolation. The title was embossed into the cover with black hotfoil and invites the reader to touch and feel.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Hardcover 280 x 205 mm 0,85 kg EN 112 Tina De Souter
€ 50,00 - ISBN 9789464363050 55
PHOTOGRAPHY
Paul D’Haese
Paul D’Haese Borderline Photographing markers on the edge of the coastline This new photo series was carried out during hiking trips along the northern French coast. He has focused on the borderline between the built-up land and the wide sea. The northern French coast is ‘marked’ by history: the Atlantic Wall, the liberation, the refugee camps. With this in mind, he explored all kinds of interactions in a non-documentary way: between land and sea, solid and turbid, internal and external, confinement and liberation. Paul D’Haese linked these themes to the search for identity, with the ‘borderline’ personality disorder at its extreme. Three years ago he conceived the idea of exploring this boundary line. Since then, he has followed a route from Bray-Dunes to Le Havre, approximately 350 km as the crow flies.
He crossed some fifty villages and towns, first by car, then by bicycle, and finally on foot, with the camera. Borderline follows Winks of Tangency, the project where he merely ‘touched’ the surface, the screen, the wall, the border. This time he ‘perforated’ the boundary line while photographing. As with his previous project, the exhibition is the subject of a publication: “Borderline”. Collaboration between Hangar Photo Art Center and Stockmans Art Books.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Paperback Measurements 286 x 245 mm Weight 1,00 kg Language EN / FR Number of pages 176 Book design Paul D’Haese, Joël Van Audenhaege
€ 39,00 - ISBN 9789077207956 57
PHOTOGRAPHY
Paul D’Haese
Paul D’Haese Winks of Tangency Drawing a tangent in the architectural landscape In Winks of Tangency Paul D’Haese unites three recent photographic series and guides us in seemingly desolate landscapes. Hoaxing us is his way to engage us. Paul D’Haese’s photographs are ideal images. They do not require any text. Adding words to images is tricky, as words tend to evoke different images or even examples as justification and, consequently, explain the image in question based on a different framework. It is probably no coincidence that these photographs do not have titles, a code at most, enjoy the protection of a wide white framework and uniform colour treatment and have the rhythm of a series that comprises a project. These projects do, however, have titles. They have the ambition to totalise something, not externally, not an encyclopaedic or scientific series or quasi-infinitive total
of a collection, but a totality determined by the photograph and the process of photography itself. The cultural landscape, the built-up environment with all of its demarcations and flight lines, forms the perfect subject matter. – Francis Denys
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Paperback 245 x 288 mm 0,60 kg NL / EN / FR 88
€ 35,00 - ISBN 9789077207604 59
CONTEMPORARY ART / PHOTOGRAPHY / FILM
Nico Dockx
Nico Dockx Avec le vent... A sailing exhibition, surfing on the waves of the Mediterranean Sea, ephemeral as the wind Avec le vent… (2016—2020) a project initiated by Nico Dockx With contributions by Nico Dockx, Leif Elggren, Yona Friedman, Alexis Gautier, Liam Gillick, Cari GonzalezCasanova, Heide Hinrichs, Karl Holmqvist, Ann Veronica Janssens, Koo Jeong A, Zak Kyes, Jan Mast, Pat McCarthy, Jonas Mekas, Philip Metten, Jean-Michel Meyers, Maurizio Nannucci, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anri Sala, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Luc Tuymans, Luca Vitone, and Carl Michael von Hausswolff --Marseille, 12 Boats, 4 exhibitions on the Mediterranean Sea (2016-2020): Bilinga (A Dog Republic, Koo Jeong A, Jean-Pierre Pouchard)
By The FLo (Nico Dockx & Jan Mast, Yves Gally & Babeth Gauchi, Cari GonzalezCasanova) Celeste (Corrado De Giuli Morghen, Pat McCarthy, Jonas Mekas) Daisy (Nicolas Ceccon, Philip Metten, Ouragan) Drakkar (l’association des amis des scouts marins de Marseille, Leif Elggren & Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Cari Gonzalez-Casanova) Exocet (Luc Bérard, Ann Veronica Janssens, Rirkrit Tiravanija) Hobby One (Zak Kyes & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Peytou, Anri Sala) Paggo (Philip Metten, Ouragan, Stéphane Sollari) Santa Cruz (Alexis Gautier, David & Julie Hallereau, Heide Hinrichs) Shambhala (Frédéric Dupeyron, Karl Holmqvist, Luca Vitone)
Uka Uka (Jean-Michel Meyers, Maurizio Nannucci, Stéphane Sollari) Viking (l’association des amis des scouts marins de Marseille, Liam Gillick, Luc Tuymans)
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Paperback 320 x 240 mm 0,51 kg EN 80
€ 50,00 61
PHOTOGRAPHY
Cuba Photography Missions
Cuba Photography Missions Where are you from? The Cuba Photography Missions and the idea of documentary photography Like photography itself, the Cuba Photography Missions is slippery, complex and multi-layered. It is self-defined as a project in documentary photography; it is a collaborative international exchange among institutions and artists; it is an educational initiative; it has resulted in art. As someone whose knowledge of Cuba comes, in part, from direct experience of the place and more from photographs of it, it has been my pleasure to take part in this effort, adding some historical context as well as a personal perspective. Towards, the end of this project, in the beginning of 2020, I took part in a symposium about it in Havana just before we all locked down. Now, a year later, I am writing for the catalogue. It’s dark March in Cambridge; Cuba and the person I was when I went there seem very far away.
As usual I turn to photographs and the ideas around them, hoping to figure out how I know what I do about Cuba and how that relates to documentary ideas and ideals. – Alison Nordström
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Swiss Binding 270 x 205 mm 0,51 kg ES / EN 128 Kim Beirnaert
€ 39,00 - ISBN 9789464363067 63
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sam Asaert Sam Asaert Iran, Bardasht Tasviri, a photographic perception A photographic journey and perception of contemporary Iran A photographic perception of Iran by photographer Sam Asaert, who frequently travelled to Iran and spent long periods of time in this vast and mysterious country between 2014 and 2017. Being an assertive and open minded human being, the artist connected easily with the Millennial and artistic generation of Tehran. Living there in close contact with his contemporaries, this book brings a unique and warm testimony of the generations that will build the future of Iran. “This book is not about Iran. This book is a photographic perception of Iran. A book about Iran would imply the conveyance of ideas and notions about it. Yet within these pages, you will find nothing of the historic, linguistic, political, cultural, or
any of the broader context necessary to obtain substantial and deeper insight into a place as rich, as diverse, and as old as Iran. There are many different perceptions of Iran and, depending upon the reader of this book, the photographic representations of people and places in the following three chapters can be interpreted as adhering to any one of these.” TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Hardcover 285 x 220 mm 1,20 kg EN / FA 300
€ 50,00 - ISBN 9789077207543 65
PHOTOGRAPHY
Denis Rouvre
Denis Rouvre Sâdhus Mystical photography, Indian colors, where orange and black live together in harmony The Sadhus are enlightened by the captivating images of Denis Rouvre. The photographs go beyond the superficial beauty of the human beings, and their clothing. Black eyes, haggard, exhausted, possessed. Flowering beards on bodies adorned with bones. A bowl for a bowl and the saint will have sacrifice for mantle. The sadhus, eternal clichés of Hindu mysticism, watch over Indian imagery. They are projected guardians of the Ganges and its sacred waters, guiding the souls of the dead, impassive vigilantes reciting mantras before prostrate crowds or fasting in the wet belly of caves. It is their way of being in the world, in reaction to the world, to carry their
burden on a parallel path that Denis Rouvre admires among the Sadhus. In a form of nonidentity straining towards annihilation, they oppose a resistance to the inevitability of their birth. They are those who are born to die, to no longer be. Individuals who brave the ordinary, the common lot. Of those who populate the portraits of the photographer. Of those who by their will, by their heroic posture, rise among the gods. – Thomas Flamerion
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Hardcover Measurements 255 x 175 mm Weight 0,50 kg Language NL / EN / FR Number of pages 104 Book design Christian Kirk-Jensen, Danish Pastry Design
€ 40,00 - ISBN 9789077207581 67
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Charlie De Keersmaecker
Charlie De Keersmaecker Down by the River Endless Summer Down by the River by Charlie De Keersmaecker evokes a melancholic feeling of an endless summer, a metaphor for a not lost yet youth. 18 images reflecting sunlight on the river Scheldt near the city of Antwerp, the soft skin and staring gazes of model like millennials echo a post ‘Catcher in the Rye’ noise. The black and white images are bathing in a timeless atmosphere. The protagonists are connected, not only by the landscape and the surroundings of the unworried water, but especially through the lens the viewer throws upon them, a perspective of coolness and undecidedness we all long for… Charlie De Keersmaecker is able to confront us with these short periods in life when we could still feel untroubled and unworried, and the future would always be bright and golden.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Paperback 280 x 280 mm 0,30 kg EN 40
€ 30,00 - ISBN 9789077207611 69
PHOTOGRAPHY / LIFESTYLE
Pascal van Loenhout
Pascal van Loenhout UN/CUT Uncut, cutting edge portraits in black and white, and sharp haircuts … in style In UN/CUT, the second monography by Pascal van Loenhout, Pascal showcases his ‘unhairdressy’ cuts. No traditional preface in this book, but an uncensored version of his life story. A testimony of his road so far, including the demons that accompany success and the creative crises he had to overcome along the way. This open and honest approach creates an even deeper impact on everyone who reads the book. The work of the unconventional Antwerp hairstylist was photographed by Charlie De Keersmaecker and given a cutting edge design by Paul Boudens. Bright red hues against a backdrop of black and white images with pages that are cut in half at the book’s centre. The result is a timeless book published by Stockmans, that every fashion/hairstyle fan will want on their coffee table.
Pascal van Loenhout is an internationally acclaimed Belgian hair stylist and global creative director. As owner of the seminal boutique salon and academy Pascal van Loenhout Antwerp, he travels the globe to share his signature style of bespoke minimal cutting on iconic stages from the Royal Albert Hall to Milan, Cape Town and Las Vegas. Globally revered hair stylist Kevin Murphy – the inventor of ‘beach wave’ style and founder of the namesake brand – has worked closely with Pascal van Loenhout for years. He appointed Pascal to the position of ‘KEVIN.MURPHY global design director’ in 2014, a position Pascal continues to hold.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Hardcover 300 x 240 mm 1,50 kg EN 192 Paul Boudens
€ 50,00 - ISBN 9789077207390 71
PHOTOGRAPHY
Dirk Lambrechts
Dirk Lambrechts Flemish Light Clouds, a visible accumulation at some height above the earth’s surface Photographer Dirk Lambrechts’ book Flemish Light arose out of something that surrounds us. It is evidently the light and the sky, the tonality and the density of the Southern Netherlands. Impenetrable, on the one hand, and characterised by a specific luminosity on the other. The publication is presented in vertical layout, not as a panoramic book, as opposed to Sugimoto’s work for example, the book concerns cloud formations without a skyline. The image has been brought to the front and rises up, indicating an apparent statement concerning monumentality. While the images have been photographed and might be interpreted as capturing a given moment of something fleeting and perpetually in motion, they accomplish
something quite different. Rather, their effect is pictorial and the indefinable qualities and almost intangible nature of what is displayed lends them a certain gravitas. The image’s concept presents itself, yet is only partly disclosed, thriving mostly on what is suggested, while postulating itself within a specific framing that despite its ambiguity also wishes to instigate identification with the image. – Luc Tuymans
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Hardcover 340 x 260 mm 1,23 kg EN 128
€ 65,00 - ISBN 9789082774108 73
PHOTOGRAPHY
Mike Van Cleven
Mike Van Cleven Dear Motel The day would be a long one, and shit, was it hot… Mike Van Cleven (°1976, Belgium) unfolds the story that wants to be told. He takes you to intriguing settings where surprising tales slumber. His imagery is an escape from the ordinary day-to-day routine. It allows the viewers to get lost in their own thoughts and dreams, in what could be. His models are their own directors, only limited by their own boundaries. To his main characters, he offers space and time to search and feel. He only frames the moment, from a distance, with trust and experience. Call it voyeurism, allowed by the protagonist. Photographer Mike Van Cleven signs his personal work with Voncleef. Having worked for more than 20 years for international brands, he styled and directed photographs of many global athletes, artists, and models in mindblowing settings.
He lived the crazy stories; he went the extra mile - literally. He developed his craftsmanship and cinematographic style in the stopovers of his own road trip movie, creating images that demand time from their creator and spectator. It reflects his personal stance, unrestricted by society’s or clients’ expectations. Spending a lot of time in roadside motels on commissioned assignments, he started to photograph the scenery where he ended up. “To keep up with where I was, to capture these amazing but mysterious places, I found that I was living a story. A story I felt compelled to tell visually, without words.”
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Hardcover 245 x 287 mm 1,50 kg EN 180 Jeffry Baecker
€ 50,00 - ISBN 9789077207888 75
PHOTOGRAPHY
Danielle van Zadelhoff
Danielle van Zadelhoff Survivors An archive of survivors from the devastating AIDS epidemic of the late 80s Survivors! The ‘AIDS Since the 80s Project’ commissioned artist Danielle van Zadelhoff to make portraits, which were first shown at City Hall in London in an exhibition created by the Project founders Adam Roberts and Paul Coleman. The subjects are people who have given filmed interviews for what will become one of the largest archives of its kind, documenting experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. There will also be a feature film to distil these remarkable stories. This limited edition magazine features images from the exhibition, printed partly on Munken Polar Rough and on Arctic Volume. To stay true to the atmosphere of the original prints, a large size of 34 x 46 cm was chosen. The magazine comes in a plastic folder, with handwritten title and edition number. Only 100 issues
are available. “This project is close to my heart because these survivors are witnesses to our history. In these pictures I have tried to capture a reflection of their souls and strength, of the fragility of beauty in their imperfection: in search of the connection between the landscape of skin and the inner soul.” – Danielle van Zadelhoff LIMITED EDITION, 100 books
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Folded 460 x 340 mm 0,35 kg EN 28
€ 80,00 77
PHOTOGRAPHY
Cornelia Stahl
Cornelia Stahl The Flaneur A stroll through Antwerp How to portrait an overshot city as Antwerp? Cornelia Stahl takes your hand and as a real flaneur you join her on a promenade through this historical city. The black and white photographs are printed in a duotone of black and grey and carry you around the city, wondering and wandering, from the historic harbor dockyards towards the city south, home of the arts. “Do you remember - how, as children, we explored our surroundings step by step with curiosity and completely immersed in ourselves? We were simply guided by our instincts, all our senses and drifted away. In exactly the same way, I invite you to stroll through the wonderful city of Antwerp - follow me unobtrusively...” – Cornelia Stahl
Cornelia Stahl has wandered for years in the city of Antwerp, both with the eye of the tourist as with the eye of the resident. In this beautiful designed book by Reg Herygers of Undercast Studio, the photographer takes the right distance, highlighting details of City life and architecture through a black and white lens.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Hardcover 200 x 250 mm 0,70 kg NL / EN 96 Reg Herygers
€ 35,00 - ISBN 9789077207628 79
PHOTOGRAPHY
Alfredo Falvo
Alfredo Falvo Lost Angels Welcome to the world of broken dreams and paradise lost Downtown LA, 2005, financial district, just around the corner, a few streets along, Skid Row Los Angeles, house of around 10,000 “lost angels”. Homeless, drug addicts, down-and-outs, psychologically damaged people on the edge of society of all ages, a melting pot of backgrounds, in an almost hopeless situation. Powerful, confrontational images by Italian photographer Alfredo Falvo, who spent months in this ‘dump of human remnants’. Falvo’s photographic practice focuses on an inexhaustible search for humanity, which he proves in this epic document of both misery and hope for a better future. 16 years later nothing has changed and Skid Row Los Angeles is still a ghetto for some, a refuge for others, but never innocent, never a shelter or safe haven.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Hardcover 280 x 280 mm 1,15kg EN 96
€ 35,00 - ISBN 9789077207147 81
PHOTOGRAPHY
Nick Claeskens
Nick Claeskens Bus Stop Unwind and explore the life and meaning of small family-owned touring bus services in Belgium ‘Globalization’, a commonly used word these days, is the reason of changing global landscapes. Larger firms buy small, authentic companies, the small companies that want to keep doing what they do, and don’t want to be bought by larger firms, struggle to compete, and eventually disappear. Nick Claeskens’ view on this phenomenon is displayed in his first book, Bus Stop. For decades, sons and daughters kept the bus company that was started by their mothers and fathers alive. For 2 years he travelled through Belgium to document their activities, to feel the atmosphere on board and to show who they are. What’s evolving and what could be lost in a few years. Safe travels! Nick Claeskens spent two years travelling with about 35 small bus companies that had been in the family
for years. He captured a phenomenon that is currently disappearing. The small and colourful bus companies are increasingly being taken over by large holdings. In a humanistic and social way he showcases their strengths and vulnerabilities.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages
Hardcover 240 x 310 mm 1,15 kg NL 160
€ 39,00 - ISBN 9789077207345 83
PHOTOGRAPHY / DOCUMENTARY
Maarten Mellemans
Maarten Mellemans Fools With Dreams A year of living through trades, told by images, interviews and stories The story: Maarten Mellemans gave up his job and apartment for a year and spent the year living on trade. In exchange for his services as a professional photographer he asked for a place to sleep, some food and transportation to the next place. The result is ‘Fools With Dreams’, a book about his social experience with over 3.000 photos of what he experienced that year, combined with interviews of the people he met and short essays about life on the road. The book comes with 32 separate photo prints. Fools with dreams offers an intimate look at the photographer’s life and that of the 62 ‘fools’ he met along the way. Another interesting aspect is that the book was partly financed through a crowdfunding campaign. Without trade and exchange there would have been no book.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Open spine + 32 cards/ photoprints Measurements 235 x 170 mm Weight 1,15 kg Language EN Number of pages 360
€ 40,00 - ISBN 9789077207437 85
PHOTOGRAPHY / CONTEMPORARY ART
Els Dietvorst
Els Dietvorst Coastal Shrine When the Coastal Line turns into a space for communion and spiritual sharing This publication is part of the PhD research Partisans of the Real conducted by Els Dietvorst at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts) & the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA University of Antwerp). ‘Coastal Shrine’ is published in parallel with the exhibition ‘This is what you came for’ in CENTRALE for contemporary art and Bozar Brussels. Track Report documents research in the arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Measurements Weight Language Number of pages Book design
Paperback 110 x 170 mm 0,20 kg EN 160 Sadrie Alves
€ 30,00 - ISBN 9789490521622 87
PHOTOGRAPHY
Zeger Garré
Zeger Garré Dank U Respect and Gratitude towards the healthcare workers who saved our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic In March 2022, Zeger is putting together his third engaged project as a photographer and sensitive human being. It will become his most personal photography project. He is completely cured of a severe corona infection that he contracted two years earlier. The work of doctors and caregivers makes a deep impression on him. In March 2020, his life is at stake, but the healthcare workers pull him through in dire circumstances. Zeger is bursting with energy and to show his gratitude, he has organized an exhibition of portraits of doctors and caregivers at Ghent University Hospital and other wellknown personalities who have cooperated with him. His aim is to immortalize the portraits with accompanying stories and experiences in a luxurious photo book. He has already determined the title of the book for some time: ‘THANK YOU’.
The proceeds of the financial benefits of the project will go to “Habbekrats”, an organization that offers young people aged between 8 to 18, meaningful leisure activities, but also a listening ear, friendship and warmth.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Binding Hardcover Measurements 235 x 300 mm Weight 1,42 kg Language NL Number of pages 224 Book design Zeger Garré, Tina De Souter
€ 50,00 - ISBN 9789464363180 89
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