アートディレクションは、オランダを代表するグラフィックデザイナー、リンダ・ファン・ドゥールセン(Linda van Deursen)によるもの。33 × 24cmの大型フォーマットに、異なる数種類の用紙を組み合わせ、断裁されていない折丁が綴じられ、折り畳まれたポスター状の表紙に収められるという極めて複雑な仕様を採用しています。あるイタリアの印刷業者からは「不可能」とまで言われたこの意欲的なアイデアは、オランダのアートブック印刷会社ウィルコ・アート・ブックス(Wilco Art Books)の優れた技術によって見事に実現されました。
Available for pre-order now. *It will be shipped at the end of July.
The new IDEA book is WOLVES by WINTER VANDENBRINK. It is the third book by the Dutch born, Paris based photographer to be published by IDEA, the first of course being VANDALS from 2024 and the second TOBY from later that same year. At 33 x 24cm, WOLVES is a big book art directed by graphic design legend Linda van Deursen, and easily the most exciting physical book production ever undertaken at IDEA, so much that one Italian printer told us it was ‘impossibile’ to make. There are different paper stocks, untrimmed sections sewn in, and the book block is glued into a folded poster. Only the Dutch could come up with it - and actually make it. The book was printed and bound by Wilco Art Books in Amersfoort in the Netherlands.
Winter presents his subjects in unique detail but also in close interaction with each other - for this book, we are looking at the adolescents as ‘wolf packs’, roaming the streets of Paris, Venice, Amsterdam or Milan. Eliot Haworth’s brilliant contribution ‘Field Notes’, included at the back of the book, presents his research on wolf behaviour in an ambiguous tone so that it applies to both adolescents and animals simultaneously:
“As a rule, they tend to wear large shaggy coats in the winter, which lighten up in the summer months. Even in the very coldest or hottest weather, they are happiest when mingling outside. Their hairstyles vary. Some wear it straight, or in tufts, or crests, or short and with an elastic springiness. Some hair is exceptionally long and runs down past the shoulders. It can be black or blonde, or brown or red or orange or silver. Sometimes it’s a fetching two-tone, with the tips tinted a darker colour.” Eliot Haworth - Field Notes
Through glances, gestures and movements Winter captures the togetherness of teenage groups. He stages photos like this expertly for advertising and editorial too, but WOLVES is unscripted; 164 pages of the actual in-between.
“I did have to think about whether the subjects of the photos should see me, though. In the beginning I shot undetected from very far away, but that started to feel a bit dishonest. So I moved in closer and closer. Now I like to stand in the middle of the action, or at least in a spot where the young people can see me and approach me if they want.”
- Pages: 168 Size: 240 x 330 mm Softcover Colour Limited edition of 750 copies