Vivian Keulards

To Hans / Voor Hans

Publication date: February 2020

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With this book, Vivian Keulards is breaking her family's taboo. The book reflects her feelings, thoughts, and memories during the search for answers to the questions she could not ask her brother Hans, who suffered a cardiac arrest, caused by drugs, at the age of 38. Years after his death, she went in search for answers. Why did he get addicted and she didn’t, how did he feel and could she have done anything?

The project is a personal story with a universal mission: to show the human being behind addiction. To show it’s only a thin line between being addicted and not.

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About the book:

Vivian Keulards
ISBN ‎9789053309384
Essay by Ralf Mohren
Design by Put Gootink, Amsterdam
Published by Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Paperback, Japanese binding, 24.5 x 28.5 cm, 112 pages

Press:

The British Journal of Photography
LensCulture
F-Stop
The Royal Photographic Society Journal (March 2020)
Focus magazine (March 2020)
Photo-Eye blog
Concept Aware Podcast with Sybylla J Smith (October, 29th, 2020)


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