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 Roma Publications, 2008ISBN 978-90-77459-33-1 Dutch and English 14 x 20,5 cm / 2 x 48 p. / paperback €13,50 A short fiction set in the Cold War era, Plateau features two scientists stationed on the Arctic drift ice for a year. “Except for the stars there were no reference points here: no hills, no mainland, no vegetation — nothing that counterbalanced the uniform character of this frozen ocean landscape.” The question how the expedition members should relate to this landscape forms the heart of a discussion which seems to be driving them apart. Plateau was designed by Roger Willems and edited by Arnoud Holleman and Cathelijne Hoorn. Gwenneth Boelens contributed the images. |
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2003Dutch only 15,5 x 22,5 cm / 48 p. / paperback €12,50 De grote afwezige (The Grand Absence) is a collection of seven essays that Nickel wrote on the occasion of his graduation as a photographer. Most of the essays analyse the working of photography in a somewhat humourous fashion. The book opens with a letter to the dead inventors of photography. In other essays, various attempts are described to achieve perfectly objective photographs – attempts that are obviously bound to fail. The book also includes two essays of greater personal urgency. One is a polemic against a school of Dutch photographers who apply melodrama to their pictures in order to feign emotional intensity. The other is the title essay, an imaginary phone conversation between a photography graduate and his father. The son has put his pictures on display for the final exhibition, but his father cannot come. Can a verbal explanation of the photographs undo his father’s absence? Download a translation of this essay here. |