KESTEREN, Geert van

'The Dutch Photobook' deals with the recent history of the Dutch photobook. Selected titles were placed in the context of developments in photography & society on the basis of the themes of landscape, youth, travel, urbanity, and the autonomous photobook.

This book, 'Baghdad Calling' by Geert van KESTEREN, is an appeal to the Western coalition. It shows everyday life in Iraq in 2006/07 through hundreds of photographs taken with cell phones or digital cameras, showing places that journalists dared not enter