two artists books:
TALMID (with photographs by Jörn Vanhöfen)
MEIN ORIENTALISCHES TAGEBUCH (reproductions from a travel diary by Ignaz Goldziher)
with a text by Navid Kermani
German/Englisch
40 photographs as giclèe print on Japanese washi paper
handbound
Edition: 10 + 1

24,5 x 32,5 cm
Bitter Edition Berlin, 2021
Euro 1800,00

Vanhöfen's pictures bear witness to the metamorphosis of material; to both small and gigantic upheavals. The melting of the glaciers cannot be prevented, not even by cleverly applied layers of insulation. Areas of the earth are now being exposed that were covered for thousands of years. New continents make their appearance while vast tracts of coastline are about to vanish from the map. But this future is not an apocalyptic vision, but rather a vision of Nature that will inevitably re-conquer its domain in some future post-human era.

58 pages
24,5 × 27,5 cm
Kuckei + Kuckei, 2015
ISBN 978-3-00-047796-6
Euro 25,00

Photographer Jörn Vanhöfen (*1961 in Dinslaken) travels the world to capture images of areas that are undergoing rapid change. They are always places where people believe wholeheartedly in permanent growth and limitless profit, for the consequences of this fatal attitude are the objects of his photographic work. Vanhöfen journeys to Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America, going wherever the results are demonstrably obvious—from the Chicago stock exchange, the townships of Cape Town, and the scorched forests in Apulia to abandoned factories in Detroit and salvage yards in his hometown in the Ruhr region. His unique, poetic photographs depict ruins of our time. And while they may be fascinatingly beautiful, the looming consequences of our actions at the same time horrify us.

148 pages
34,8 × 28,9 cm
Hatje Cantz, 2011
ISBN 978-3-7757-2975-8
Euro 58,00