My Photobooks /  19 january 2019

Introduction

For me, a photobook is the most creative and agreeable format in which one can present photos.
These books allow readers to look at photographs in their own time, in the location of their choice and undisturbed by others.
Besides, photobooks have a much longer shelf life when you consider that a photographic exhibition has a finite life span of a few weeks or months.
That is why, in recent years, I have been making photobooks in order to create a lasting and ongoing timeline of many of my photographic activities.
Normally, my photobooks were printed using the time-honoured offset press which has a print run of a minimum of 500 copies.
But I have also benefited greatly from increasingly improved digital presses, which allow books to be printed in limited editions.

An overview of photobooks I have made or to which I have contributed, is presented below. Most photobooks are self published ones. Therefore I used the name Mauritsheech Publishers

Long-term projects (hardcover edition / exept the first (Art Fairs) all other books are self published)

• 2021. De Laatste postboten in de wereld / edition 40 / Mauritsheech Publishers
• 2020 Keep Greenland a secret / 100 copies / Mauritsheech Publishers
• 2017  Friesland, the smallest country on earth / 750 copies / Mauritsheech Publishers
• 2017 The wave, crossing the Atlantic / 600 copies / Mauritsheech Publishers / Englis edition only

• 2014 Lviv, city of paradoxes / 1200 copies / Mauritsheech Publishers / also in Ukrainian / English edition (1000 copies) www.lvivbook.com

• 2013 Before And After /500 copies / Mauritsheech Publishers

• 2012 Around the North Sea / 1100 copies / Mauritsheech Publishers www.denoordzeerond.nl

• 2009 Art Fairs / 1000 copies / Publisher d`jonge Hond

Assignments 

• 2012 Look at this city / 1000 copies /Historical Centre Leeuwarden / Friese Pers Publishers
• 2011 A lifelong love of art / 1000 copies / commissioned by the board of directors
• 2008 Between Dokkum and the sea / 1000 copies / Municipality of   Dongeradeel
• 2008 Eel fishermen and eel smokers / 1000 copies / Friese Pers Publishers
• 2005 New Winschoter Peil / 1000 copies / Municipality of  Winschoten

• 2018 Oqaatsut, Greenland / 10 copies 
• 2008 Nome, Alaska / 20 copies
• 2007 Nicolette, the house and the garden / 10 copies
• 2006 Peleas da Gallo, cockfights in Cuba / 10 copies
• 2006 South Atlantic Ocean, 22 seascapes / 75 copies
• 2006 Semana Santa, Easter processions in Sicily / 100 copies
• 2006 RDM, the last days of a Rotterdam factory / 100 copies
• 2006 Los niños, a small development project in Guatemala / 50 copies
• 2005 Remedios, a small Cuban town / 100 copies
• 2005 Las Parrandas, Christmas in Remedios, Cuba / 10 copies
• 2004 Kaliningrad / 20 copies