The photographer as editor

'The Many Lives of Erik Kessels' provides an overview of how to better understand and appreciate the hybrid way of working of the Dutch photographic artist Erik KESSELS, who defies any categorization. With more than twenty works as well as many essays.

'Let’s get shitfaced, it’s free.' contains photographic recordings, Erik KESSELS' answer to the idea of ​​a sketchbook - brought into a form that examines image contexts, themes, colors and textures; not to give answers, but to provoke and to question.

Small photo book 'Bombay Beauties' includes portraits on the reverse. The focus is on the diversity of Indian hair design. Erik KESSELS used the material found to 'show the rich diversity of the city by alluding to unspoken life stories'.

Pb. in plastic bag, 17 x 22,5 cm., 40 pp., approx. 42 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 250 copies

Loose-leaf publication in a metallic gold bag, 30,5 x 38 x 1 cm., 40 pp., color ills.,

'Unfinished Father' by Erik KESSELS is the photographic documentation of a car construction project of his father, which remained unfinished because the father died over it. The volume symbolizes the image that the son has made of his very active father.

Pb. in plastic bag, 17 x 22,5 cm., 40 pp., approx. 42 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 500 copies

Boxed set of cards & tape. Ltd to 200 copies

Pb. in plastic bag, 17 x 22,5 cm., 28 pp., 24 b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 250 copies

'Shit' is a picture story of German soldiers who did their business in battle during World War II. In this photo book, Dutch photographer Erik KESSELS examines a shitty aspect of the war that has never been covered in the history books.

'Shining in Absence', the twelfth issue of the journal AMC2 by KESSELS, addresses the disappearance of photography both as an idea and as a material object. Images of torn, vacant photo albums, empty frames and mounting corners fill this poignant volume.

Newspaper printed pb., 30 x 37 cm., 64 pp., highly illustrated, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

Pb. with dust jacket, 19 x 27 x 1,5 cm., 64 pp., color ills., text details in English

'In almost every pictrue #9. How to shoot a black dog' by Erik KESSELS deals with one family’s attempt to solve one of the great mysteries of photography. Before the digital age there was a time when photographers actually had to take photos themselves.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 13 x 21 cm., 140 pp., 98 color & bw-ills., text language: English

Hotfoil printed HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 148 pp.,

HC, 13 x 21 cm., 140 pp.