PUUR. Trotse tienermoeders

Title: PUUR. Trotse tienermoeders

Photographer/s: MeRy (Melanie Rijkers, pronounce Rikers)

Contributor/s: Miranda Baas (text)

Date of publication: April 1, 2009

Place of publication: the Netherlands

Dimensions: 16×24 cm

Edition size: 2500

Type of binding: sown, broched laminated hardcover

Number of pages: 120

Type of paper: 170 semimatt MC

Number of pictures: 80

Type of printing: 4 color + vernis

Printer: Flevodruk

Publisher: d’Jongehond

Language: Dutch

ISBN: 978-90-89101-03-7

Category: fine art photobook

Price: 20 euro

Summary: Being a young mother is one of the last real taboos of our modern society. Prejudice is all around, when a young woman decides to ‘choose life’ and many think she’s wasting her future and is a sad case. Photographer MeRy proofs them wrong with these strong and powerful (nude) portraits of 79 Dutch young mothers of all color, age 16-22. Pregnant or with child(ren) they pose in pure Remdbrandtesk light against a black background. MeRy never used any Photoshop. These women are real, with striae, little pimples and the black pregnancy stripe on a belly still visible. Life is PURE. PURE. is life!

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Bakel, the Netherlands, 21 July 1971

Website: http://www.mery.com

Book link: http://www.mery.nl/puur

Donated by: MeRy

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The Indie Photobook Library is TWO!

This past weekend, the Indie Photobook Library celebrated its 2nd Anniversary. Thank you to all the photographers/artists/bookmakers that have made the collection what it is today! I’d also like to thank Advisory Board members Darius Himes, Andy Adams, Shane Lavalette, and Gabe Reed and all the venues that have welcomed the iPL. In the last two years, the collection has grown to almost 1000 books. The iPL continues to promote and showcase the books in the collection through international pop-up and feature-length exhibitions, articles, conferences, guest lectures, and also preserves them as a non-circulating public library. Having a specific collection dedicated to this contemporary movement in publishing allows for the development of future discourse on trends in self-publishing, the ability to reflect on and compare books in the collection, and for scholarly research to be conducted years, decades, and centuries to come. I am looking forward to continuing the iPL mission.

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