“Ik fotografeer meestal persoonlijkheden, maar mode maakt steeds vaker deel uit van deze foto’s. We beslissen

’s ochtends allemaal wat we die dag zullen aantrekken, zelfs al gaat het slechts om een hoed

of een zwart T-shirt. Mode wordt niet altijd in hoofdletters geschreven.”

In MOØDe presenteert de internationaal toon- aangevende fotograaf en filmmaker Anton Corbijn beelden uit zijn rijke oeuvre waarin hij de cross-over tussen de fotografie en de modewereld opzoekt. Daarmee omarmt h...

BOEKFICHE The Bold and the Beautiful - In Flemish Portraits

Men in stately black, women with huge ruffs, children with golden rattles, old women with wizened faces, and self-satisfied artists… These are the main players in just about every portrait ever painted in the Southern Netherlands. From the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the tract of land that we today call Flanders was the economic, cultural, intellectual and financial heart of Europe. And money flows – with everyone who ...

When Elephants Come to Town

‘Through this extraordinary selection of photographs and accompanying text,

we follow elephants on their journey from Ancient Rome to Coney Island and

beyond. Across battlefields and city bridges, in railway cars and circus rings,

adored, applauded and at times brutally mistreated, elephants have truly come

to town.’

James Attlee

When Elephants Come to Town is a visual celebration of man’s timeless fascination with the world’s largest land animal through th...

From Memling to Rubens

The Golden Age of Flanders

Why did Hans Memling paint everything in such minute detail? How did Rubens, in just a few brushstrokes, create special effects that Steven Spielberg would envy? And why was the Southern Netherlands the artistic centre of the world for three centuries?

From Memling to Rubens: The Golden Age of Flanders tells the story of Flemish art from the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as you’ve never read it before. It’s a rollercoaste...

Intrigerende opvolger van het bekroonde 'Island of the Colorblind’

Land of Ibeji is de samenwerking tussen twee fotografen. Bénédicte Kurzen en Sanne De Wilde wonnen de eerste prijs in de World Press Photo Contest, ‘Portrait series’, met dit project.

In dit boek ontrafelen ze de mythe van het tweelingschap in Ibeji, Nigeria. Voor het Yoruba-volk staan ‘de dubbele geboorte’ en ‘de onafscheidelijke twee’ voor de ultieme harmonie tussen twee mensen. Nergens anders ter wereld word...

“Every day, a first-time visitor to Venice will enquire about the most direct route to his or her hotel. ‘The shortest or the most beautiful?’ I once overheard the concierge at the Hotel Des Bains respond. The tourist who chose the most beautiful route is still wandering the streets. This is a unique photobook in which to wander and lose oneself.”

— Serge Simonart

Venice is already the subject of thousands of unremarkable travel guides and photo books. Only an original and tactile c...

A photographic journey into the dazzling past of a metropolis that never ceases to amaze

It is often said that you can’t do the same walk twice in New York. Its history may be short compared to that of European cities, but it is also a history marked by lightning-fast change. Thanks to the art of photography, we are able to see that fascinating history.

This book takes the reader on an enchanted journey through time, from the small town that began as New Amsterdam in the seventeenth century...

Crazy about Dymphna

The Story of a Girl who Drove a Medieval City Mad


Sven Van Dorst, Stephan Kemperdick, Till-Holger Borchert a.o.

Around 1505 Goossen Van der Weyden, Rogier’s grandson, painted a monumental altarpiece depicting the various phases of Saint Dymphna’s insane life.

This Irish princess, who fled her incestuous father in the sixth century, was beheaded in the Kempen village of Geel. On account of her tragic end and uncompromising chastity, the princess was venerated from t...

Het hoogst originele universum van kunstenares Kati Heck. 

“As we grow older, we filter out of our perception the details that we have been conditioned to believe are unimportant. It takes an exceptionally talented painter to pierce that veil and capture the essential richness and strangeness of the world. This, it seems to me, is Kati Heck’s gift.” 

— Ben Eastham, editor-in-chief of art-agenda

In de loop der jaren heeft Kati Heck (°1979) een zeer persoonlijke visie op het alledaag...