Africa

2nd print run. The photographer Tariq ZAIDI shows in 'Sapeurs. Ladies & Gentlemen of the Congo' the subcultural fashion in Kinshasa & Brazzaville. During the day cab drivers, tailors or gardeners - after work they become casually dressed, elegant dandies.

In 2017 dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT visited and succeeded admirably in connecting with the people of Mukono. The result is a wide-ranging collection of remarkable monochrome portraits, alongside some surreal impressions of the local landscape.

Dutch photographer Bastiaan WOUDT captured the local culture of Morocco with a monochrome look for this book. 'Bastiaan Woudt in Morocco' is the eighth part of a book series by the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation that supports talented Dutch photographers.

Pb. with dust jacket (as poster), 21 x 27,5 x 3 cm., 320 pp., 1800 gr., text language: English

The last part of an unintended trilogy on the lives of refugees and migrants. 'Rooted' returns to a phenomenon that was already noted in 'Ville de Calais': the many refugee camp residents who find hope, consolation and dignity in nurturing a few plants.

In Yoruba country in Nigeria, the birth rate of twins is ten times higher than usual. Based on this story, the photographers Sanne de WILDE & Bénédicte KURZEN have made twin pairs colorful portraits in 'Land of Ibeji', staging them extremely imaginative.

'Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit. The GDR in Mozambique' by Malte WANDEL is about African workers who lived in the GDR until German reunification. Many live in poverty, because the money withheld from their wages, intended for their pensions, has disappeared

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 30 cm., 144 pp., color ills., English

Out-of-print photo book 'Aftermath' by Jörn VANHÖFEN captures rapidly changing places in a peculiarly poetic way: the Chicago Stock Exchange, Cape Town's townships, forest fires in Puglia, Detroit's abandoned factories and the scrap yard in the Ruhr area.

With the photo volume 'Walking Distance', Olaf UNVERZART shows his interpretation of a travel diary. Beyond sights, well-known places with supposedly country-typical folklore, it opens the view for the things and living beings in between - an in-between.