Photographers Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen investigate the mythology of twins in Nigeria where the rate of natural twin births is higher than anywhere else in the world. As sacred beings, twins’ magical and spiritual powers are celebrated with mythical fervour, but also condemned as unnatural.

‘Ibeji’, meaning ‘double birth’ and ‘the inseparable two’ in Yoruba, stands for the ultimate harmony between two people. Embracing this concept, the photographers created richly intriguing, intensely colourful portraits of twins.

They played with the concept of doubling to create an imaginative photographic story, using double exposures, mirror reflections and colour filters. Through these pictorial processes, the two artists produced inventive double portraits, while also working together as twin-like co-authors. Land of Ibeji is the magical, colourful result.

Publisher: Hannibal Books
Year: 2021
Dimensions: 29 x 23,5 cm
Pages: 256 pages, hardcover with transparent jacket
Language: English
ISBN: 978 94 6388 736 6

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“Hellbangers is an affirmation that at its core shows the strength and power of the metal community in Africa, and how it connects around the world.

These brilliant and exciting photographs draw us into a special and unique story. I feel particularly engaged by the connection with the cradle of civilisation, from the dawn of humanity to the present day, through this lens of metal life as captured by Pep.

The love and devotion to the music that these wonderful maniacs show scream out to us with absolute conviction – we are all united by the essence of the metal heart and spirit of the Hellbangers!”

— Rob Halford (Judas Priest)

Photographer Pep Bonet (1974, Mallorca) followed Overthrust, a heavy metal band from Botswana, Africa, and shows us a growing, exciting and thoroughly organic heavy metal community. Ten years ago, one group existed. Today there are more than ten – and their fans are growing every year.

The inhabitants of Botswana portrayed in this book are tattooed, wear loudly and proudly leather jackets and trousers, and play heavy death metal music. Imagine the DIY ingenuity of their ‘costume creation’ involving harvested animal skulls and other natural elements.

With names like Demon and Gunsmoke, it would be easy though to think they are thugs, but “We try to be examples. Rock is a wild thing, but also something for the heart”, says Gunsmoke, the heavy metal head. Here too, the lyrics of the songs are very critical towards societies, just like their western peers. Metal in Botswana is rebellious movement against authorities. This is the story of what looks at first to be an unlikely union, yet one which powerfully illustrates how music, how heavy metal music, has become a positively unifying force in an unlikely part of the world.

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Year: 2021
Dimensions: 170 x 220 mm, color on spine, image on front and silk screen
Pages: 128 pages, hardcover
Language: English

All Photography © Pep Bonet, 2021

• Texts: Pep Bonet, Steffan Chirazi, Rob Halford

• Copy-editing: Cath Phillips

• Art direction: Natacha Hofman

• Design: Tim Bisschop

• Coordination: Hadewych Van den Bossche

• Printing: die Keure, Bruges, Belgium

• Binding: Van Mierlo, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Color grading by Joan Roig / Cromagnon.tv

ISBN 978 94 6388 788 5

D/2021/11922/25

NUR 653

This book is supported by Wacken Open Air and Nikon Europe.

© Hannibal Books, 2021

Hannibal Books is an imprint of Uitgeverij Kannibaal bv, Furnes, Belgium

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

In After Us the Deluge, photographer Kadir van Lohuizen shows the impact on communities of rising sea levels. He travelled to Greenland, USA, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Panama and the Pacific. There, he captured the havoc caused by global warming. The result is both a period piece and photobook, as disturbing as it is aesthetically impressive. The book is richly illustrated with maps and graphs.

With journalistic and scientific contributions from: Henk Ovink, International water envoy, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Arctic scientist, Jeff Goodell, author, editor Rolling Stone, Elliot Brown, researcher / resident Guna Yala, Panama, Amalinda Savirani, Associate professor, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Anote Tong, former president Kiribati, Sharif Jamil, leader and activist Bangladesh, Marjan Minnesma, director and founder Urgenda, Netherlands.

Publisher: Lannoo Designer: Kummer & Herrman
Year: 2020
Dimensions: 320 x 245 x 24 mm
Pages: 288 pages, softcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-9401473590

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Option 1: Signed print - Disko Bay, Greenland. Disco Bay is often advertised as the birthplace of icebergs.

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“Arctic: New Frontier”, focuses on the consequences of the melting of the sea ice for the planet, and the medium-term prospect of its total disappearance.

Yuri Kozyrev travelled towards the East and Kadir van Lohuizen headed West. Each of them travelled halfway across the Arctic Circle to meet in September in the Berin Strait.

From Russia to Norway, Greenland, Canada and Alaska, the two laureates, in their respective areas of research, explored key issues affecting the Arctic - the opening of new trade routes, the militarisation of borders, the search for mineral resources, polar tourism, etc. - and their impact on our daily lives.

“The melting of the polar sea ice is in the process of changing the map of the world for ever. In visiting all the affected regions and countries in one expedition and by showing how the different players – starting with Russia and the U.S. – are working on conquering the North Pole, we are revealing how the impact of climate change in the Arctic is of global significance for the rest of the world.”

Author: Yuri Kozyrev & Kadir van Lohuizen
Publisher: Editions Reliefs
Product Dimensions: 29 x 25 x 2 cm
Hardcover: 162 pages
Published in 2018
Language: English & French
ISBN: 979-10-96554-85-0

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Call it the Jasmine Revolution, the Arab Spring or the Facebook Revolution, there’s a powerful Sirocco blowing across North Africa and the Middle East.

Much of the reportage on this world-changing wind has focused on the common threads that run across the region: the youthfulness of the revolutionaries, their clever use of social media websites and their embrace (for the most part) of nonviolent protest as a political tool.

But as Yuri Kozyrev crisscrossed the region, capturing images from Libya to Egypt to Bahrain, he was just conscious of the differences encountered: the rebels in Benghazi and the protesters in Bahrain may both be fighting tyranny, but their approach and aspirations are not the same.

He came to the conclusion that each revolution must be assessed in its own context, because each had a distinctive impact. The drama of each revolution unfolded separately. Each had its own heroes, its own crises. Each therefore demands its own narrative.

In the end, the differences between them may turn to be more important than their similarities.

Publisher: War Photo Limited
Year: 2011
Format: 85 x 60 cm
Language: English
Pages: 76 pages / 100 photos
ISBN 978-953-55109-8-7 

by Stanley Greene

Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, is a city scarred by the bloody resistance to the Russians’ rape and murder of its people, after the collapse of communism there in 1991. The Chechen rebellion that followed this onslaught was recorded by Stanley Greene for a period of nine years. It is a vision of hell in the eyes of the survivors.

Publisher: Trolley
Year: 2003
Format Hardback
Pages: 220
Dimensions 240 x 270 x 25.4mm
Language English
ISBN10 1904563015
ISBN13 9781904563013

“Years ago, while pursuing my passion for the sea and its depths, I encountered bluefin tuna trapped in the nets of a Sardinian tuna trap. A photograph was taken as a reminder, but the result of a great emotion bestowed by the power of these fish, paved the way for a continuous visit to the community of skilled fishermen who work there. Thanks to them, year after year, I learned the complex, delicate and ancient practice of tuna fishing. Bluefin tuna has been fished with this technique for thousands of years, but only recently has the species of bluefin tuna made headlines due to a sudden decline in its numbers a few decades ago. As a result, the international scientific community raised the alarm and forced the governments of coastal countries to study the problem and find solutions. From that moment on, bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean has been regulated and controlled, even though the few existing traps have suffered unfair critical attention, especially from public opinion. Although I am not a scientist, it is clear from the figures and statistics provided by marine biologists at various research institutes and by ICAAT that the main responsibility for the decline in the number of tuna of this species lies with another fishing technique, that of seining. This is a fishing technique that uses the latest technology and scientific knowledge to catch and kill as many tuna as possible. I spent more than six years with the crew of tuna fishermen from Portoscuso and Porto Paglia (and for the last year also from Carloforte in the bay of Calavinagra) during the tuna fishing season, which is prepared as early as March and April and becomes operational once it is set in the water from April and May. They welcomed me with sincerity and respect and helped me to understand that we can still enter into a dialogue with nature, which provides us with a livelihood only if we know how to respect its sacredness and its delicate balance.”
- words by Francesco Zizola

Publisher: Postcart
Year: 2020
Dimensions: 24 x 30 cm
Pages: 126 pages Printrun: 1600 copies
1st Edition
Language: Italian, English, and French
ISBN: 978-88-31363-10-5