Land of Ibeji, Land of Twins
Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen
Hannibal Books
English
Hardcover with transparent jacket
256 pages
290 x 230 mm
2021
ISBN 9789463887366
Photographers Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen investigate the mythology of twins in Nigeria where the rate of natural twin births is higher than anywhere else in the world. As sacred beings, twins’ magical and spiritual powers are celebrated with mythical fervour, but also condemned as unnatural.
‘Ibeji’, meaning ‘double birth’ and ‘the inseparable two’ in Yoruba, stands for the ultimate harmony between two people. Embracing this concept, the photographers created richly intriguing, intensely colourful portraits of twins.
They played with the concept of doubling to create an imaginative photographic story, using double exposures, mirror reflections and colour filters. Through these pictorial processes, the two artists produced inventive double portraits, while also working together as twin-like co-authors. Land of Ibeji is the magical, colourful result.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/photobooks/products/land-of-ibeji-land-of-twins-sanne-de-wilde-and-benedicte-kurzen?_pos=1&_sid=7d64125f2&_ss=r)
About the Artists
Sanne De Wilde (Belgium, 1987) explores the medium of photography and effectuates this in regards to subjects related to the role genetics, identity and perception play in people’s lives and how this shapes and affects communities and makes people vulnerable in the eye of society.
(source: https://www.noorimages.com/sanne-de-wilde#Bio)
Bénédicte Kurzen (France) photographic career began when she moved to Israel in 2003, covering hard news as a freelancer in the Gaza Strip, Iraq and Lebanon. In 2004, her photography developed from hard news to a more documentary style with her work on the lives of volunteer suicide bombers and widows in the Gaza Strip. Bénédicte contributed with this work to the “Violence Against Women” group project, in collaboration with Amnesty International and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
(source: https://www.noorimages.com/benedicte-kurzen)
About the Publisher
2009 founded as Cannibal – since 2011 under the imprint Hannibal – the publisher consider it a challenge to publish books that deserve a place of honour in your bookshelves for their concept, design, picture clarity & for the care taken in their printing.
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