Jan Kempenaers
Hoboken
104 p + C-print, 30 x 21 cm
Jan Kempenaers, Hoboken
Edition, published by Roma Publications, 2017
104 p, limited edition of 600 with a signed and numbered C-print.
31 x 22 cm
Roma Publication 300
In collabortion with the School of Arts Ghent.
Over a period of one year, Jan Kempenaers photographed the woods in the Hobokense Polder, itself the result of a botched urban development project and a former dumping ground for excess soil and toxic waste. Located in a suburb of Antwerp, the area was transformed into a nature reserve two decades ago. It is a new, modern landscape, the result of human intervention left to its own “natural” growth. The book is composed in sections (archive, selection, details), repeating image sequences that progress in a tendency towards abstraction. With an essay on landscape photography by Steven Humblet.
Design: Roger Willems. ISBN 9789491843976Order Here © Jan Kempenaers