Eiland 7 - Tales from suburbia adds a new chapter to Theo Baart’s continuing inquiry into the rapid transformation of the Netherlands and its effect onto the social and physical landscape. Eiland 7 is the name of a neighbourhood designed and built in 2004 on the farmland surrounding the village Hoofddorp which was the subject of his award-winning book Bouwlust (1999). Theo Baart moved there with his family and from day one photographed this new suburbia. He reflects on the ambitions of the architect and the developer and shows what his fellow house-owners have done with their new environment.

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Memory Traces is a recent publication, in which I relate to notions about landscape, culture, history and memory. Memory Traces is an unconventional photo-book, composed to be an experience, in which a selection of landscape photographs are combined with a multi-layered range of texts including excerpts from travelogues, ‘written photographs’ and a short story situated in the art-world which, among other things, deals with 'The Artification of Photography' and ‘The End of Silver-based Photography’. In a second separate booklet a Chernobyl family album of found negatives has been reproduced. 

The large format photographs were made in Sarajevo; Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Berlin, Bitterfeld-Wolfen and Ronneburg; Bikini Island and Nam Island; Chernobyl; Khe San and My Lai.

Photography & text Cary Markerink, Amsterdam
Designed by Irma Boom Office, Amsterdam 

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ISBN/EAN 978-94-90506-01-8

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