This book contains 150 portraits that (photographer) Venus (born 1968) has made over the past 30 years in the Netherlands, but also in countries such as China, Japan, Jamaica, Mexico, India, Vietnam, Thailand and South Sudan.
The book places the portraits in a new context, by ignoring time and location and focusing on the interaction between the portrayed. This creates a rhythmic series of images that emphasizes the similarities between different cultures and the power of vulnerability, as well as the contrasts between excess and scarcity, survival and beauty, explosions of colour and the modesty of black and white.
This book offers an unique look at 30 years of photography and shows Venus' search for the essence of human identity in a diverse world.
The book places the portraits in a new context, by ignoring time and location and focusing on the interaction between the portrayed. This creates a rhythmic series of images that emphasizes the similarities between different cultures and the power of vulnerability, as well as the contrasts between excess and scarcity, survival and beauty, explosions of colour and the modesty of black and white.
This book offers an unique look at 30 years of photography and shows Venus' search for the essence of human identity in a diverse world.
