Reporting on the Art of the Photobook
Imagine that you are a young man and you are living for photography. You are travelling for years across your home country to enjoy the sensations of being free and of meeting all the time new folks. You are developing a project. In every place you are passing through, you …
This was my last post for 2016. Thank you for stopping from time to time at CAPE! It was a pleasure to be able to develop my blog further and of course also to launch the publication of my own book on this platform. Let’s have good hope that next …
Already from the title, we know more than enough. This book will give us a ride to a city whose social conditions where unseen in the rest of post-war Europe. No other place in the West was more subventioned. In West-Berlin, there was all the modernity of the Free World but …
They say that the Shah of Persia preferred Ostend to Monte Carlo during the Belle Epoque. But I would personnally never want to be teleported to those days when a bunch of creepy bourgeois dressed like dolls before entering the beaches. I prefer the Belgian coast as it is today …
Valencia based photographer Pablo Casino went in 2013 to Brussels to document the local community of retired migrants from Spain. In 2016 he self-published this work in the form of a small but solid photobook and judging by its title, he does not let us doubt about where the community’s …
When it was published back in 1987, India became an immediate and gigantic succes. It has sold not less than 8.000 copies and many still regard it as Carl De Keyzer’s best book because of the aestheticizing flash techniques and of the relaxed mood in the pictures. In this post, …
“In Pamplona, a white-walled, sun-baked town high up in the hills of Navarre, is held in the first two weeks of July each year the World’s Series of bull fighting. Bull fight fans from all Spain jam into the little town. Hotels double their prices and fill every room…..” With …
Monday 13 th of February 1967 must have been the day the poetry died in Iran. It was the day when poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad, commonly known as Forough, could not avoid a car crash in Tehran. She passed away in the ambulance while she was rushed to a …
