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The book THE OBSERVER
It is a very special book. A book with a linen cover and a paper dust jacket featuring a beautiful woman whom I encountered on the subway during a trip to New York. One of my wishes for the book is that you can open it completely flat so that you can really see my photos properly.
Specifications Print run: 500 copies
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 112 pages
ISBN: 978-90-833673-9-2
Binding: Hardcover / Sewn bound with cold glue binding
All photos and text: Michiel Heijmans
Publisher: KOMMA, no ordinary publisher
Project and production supervision: Steven Hond and Willemien Geenen
Graphic design: Wout de Vringer
Publication date: September 2024
But what kind of photos are they?
THE OBSERVER features photographs of things you might otherwise walk right past. Things you only see if you pay attention. Photographs that you might have to look at twice before you notice something else. A captured emotion of a random passerby, or a striking color that suddenly recurs throughout the photo. A beautiful lady in the New York subway, as on the cover, or someone who seems to be stepping out of their own shadow. I love frames, colors, and classic elements that complete the photo. Something extra that caught my eye during all those hours on the street.
A photograph is life's pause button.
With this book, I want to press pause for a moment. Frozen moments that still seem to come alive thanks to the people I have captured. Ordinary people who, in their own way, contribute to the city in which they live. Who give us a glimpse into their world, their search, their moment.
We record birthdays, weddings, the birth of a child, and vacations. But so many beautiful things happen between all those moments. You can find my observations on those ordinary, everyday moments in the book THE OBSERVER.
