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______ and Willem. Documentation of a youth

____ and Willem chronicles the lives of the identical twins ____ and Willem, who were separated for ten years during their youth. The project questions modern family relationships and how identity is perceived through photography.

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Graphic design by Robin Uleman
Published by post editions

For sale at your own bookstore or order a copy online

paperback | 184 pp | 16,8 x 23 cm
Edition: 500 English / 500 Dutch
ISBN 9789460830099 english edition
ISBN 9789460830112 dutch edition





Mr. & Mrs. Happylife

Seeing lots of strange and unfamiliar faces from unknown people on boxes of products in stores, I wanted to personalize these people again. I removed them visually from their context - the box of a product - to focus on these unfamiliar people. At the same time I gave them names based on the only thing that I knew from them. Mr. & Mrs Happylife is a collection of portraits in a small book, organized in alphabetical order according to their new names.

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This is an artist book, for exhibiting purposes only. I am currently working on a new publication The Obvious Portrait, which incorporates this project, in collaboration with Robin Uleman and post editions.

Not for sale

Paperback, handbound | 176 pp | 14,3 x 20 cm
Edition: 1





Visual proof of my existence

In 2010 I made a journey through Florida, while keeping my camera at home. I wanted to get as much visual proof as possible of me being there, with the use of cameras that are already there and that are already recording.
To get this visual proof I placed myself in front of cameras at the time a picture was taken: in front of webcams that are connected to the internet; in front of security cameras from gated communities; secretly behind tourists who pose in front of an attraction.
In this way I documented a place which is extremely focused on the outside. I've collected visual proof of me being there; without a camera in my hand, sometimes even without any camera involved.

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This is an artist book, for exhibiting purposes only. I am currently working on a new publication The Obvious Portrait, which incorporates this project, in collaboration with Robin Uleman and post editions.

Not for sale

Paperback, handbound | 20 pp | 14,3 x 20 cm
Edition: 1





This is me and this is me

While going through a lot of old family pictures I saw many pictures of my identical twin brother and me, without knowing who I was. I constantly saw two little boys in the pictures and didn't know whether I should look at the left or the right boy to see myself. How could I then point to one of them and state that that one is me?
I look at two similar boys. I can then say that one specific boy represents me, but I can recognize myself also in the other boy, a reason for many people to say "that's me".
The book This is me and this is me shows all images that I found in which I can not see which one of the two boys I am. It is a family album of myself as a little boy - twice in each picture.

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This is an artist book, for exhibiting purposes only. I am currently working on a new publication The Obvious Portrait, which incorporates this project, in collaboration with Robin Uleman and post editions.

Not for sale

Paperback, handbound | 78 pp | 14,3 x 20 cm
Edition: 1





Showroom girls

On a showroom computer in a store, I found 91 pictures and 2 movies made by two girls. After some research I now know that they made a total of at least 153 pictures and 2 small movies in about an hour on the showroom computer. They deleted a lot of pictures. When you are aware of this, the pictures that you can see become more important. What could be seen in the deleted pictures, and why did these girls keep the ones now visible?
The book Showroom girls shows all images that the girls made together with the date and time, including all deleted images which are represented by empty frames.

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This is an artist book, for exhibiting purposes only. I am currently working on a new publication The Obvious Portrait, which incorporates this project, in collaboration with Robin Uleman and post editions.

Not for sale

Paperback, handbound | 154 pp | 14,3 x 20 cm
Edition: 1





XXXX & Willem

XXXX & Willem chronicles the lives of the identical twins XXXX and Willem, who were separated for ten years during their youth.

XXXX & Willem was the graduationproject which led to the publication ____ and Willem. It is an artist book in an edition of 5. Here the portraits of P, K and R can still be seen, including their names. In 2 books these portraits are blocked out with small papers glued over the portraits. The other 3 are still in their original state.

Selfpublished
Printed by Booxs

Hardcover | 176 pp | 12,5 x 17,5 cm
Edition: 5