Broken Holiday Album
Verna Kovanen
Kerber Verlag
Finnish, English
Hardcover, Leporello
96 pages
165 x 188 mm
2022
ISBN 9783735608604
In Broken Holiday Album, the photographer Verna Kovanen invites readers to accompany her on a journey to the Mediterranean white sand beaches and the holiday resorts of her childhood. The abandoned travel destinations, which were once built to satisfy our need for escapism, today seem more like stage settings caught in a time capsule. The poetic and subtle photographs can be viewed picture by picture or—owing to the leporello form—in a panorama view that extends over nearly six meters. The passport concealed in the book’s cover pocket gives us insights into the artist’s personal life and family history. Memories and imagination, underlying themes in Verna Kovanen’s artistic work, are also prominent in this book.
(source: https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/1994/verna-kovanen)
About the Artist
Verna Kovanen (b. 1989) is a Finnish photographer and visual artist, working with the mediums of still and moving image. Her special interest focus to the human mind and psychology.
vernakovanen.com
(source: https://phmuseum.com/vernako)
About the Publisher
Kerber Verlag is an independent, international art book publisher based in Bielefeld and Berlin. We have been publishing sophisticated, high-quality and individual publications on contemporary and modern art as well as photography and cultural history since 1985.
kerberverlag.com
(source: https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/kerber/publishing-house/)
