the selection for this years ‘best dutch books‘ competition has been announced this week, amongst the selected works are ‘raoul deleo’, ‘irma boom’, ‘piet schreuders’, ‘willem van zoetendaal’, ‘michaël snitker’ and my good friend ‘syb’ with two of his fantastic photobooks, congrats from me…
two of our books were selected last year and one the previous year, it’s nice to be in such esteemed company
earlier this week i went along to a perfect day and met the curator/brain behind the best illustration show i’ve seen in a long time
mister ‘paul faasen’ (pictured below) who also contributed work has managed to gather some of the best international names around and the show is an almost perfect mix of serious, hilarious, innovative and engaging work covering a wide range of styles and techniques
there is one week left and i recommend it to anyone with an hour to spare (otherwise find an hour somewhere)
‘joe cocker’ and ‘elton john’ amongst others, can be seen relaxing casually at home with their parents in this candid series of über-seventies rock stars at home with mum and dad…
when i first came across this work i not only instantly felll in love with it but was also convinced that it was by american street photographer ‘saul leiter’ who is currently the subject of a retrospective exhibition in amsterdam
in fact it is very much the same era and style as ‘leiter’ but a different town and a different person: namely ‘fred herzog’ see more of his beautiful oeuvre here
a really nice minimalistic cover for the new album (due for release in about a month) by one of my favourite artists: ‘sascha funke’ in collaboration with singer (and wife) ‘julienne dessagne’