The Black Hole

Paperback
102 pages, color
17 x 24 cm
Photography: Anouk Kruithof & Jaap Scheeren
Design: Hans Gremmen
Poem: Leon van den Langenbergh
In collaboration with Jaap Scheeren (2004-2006)
Publisher: Episode Publishers, Rotterdam & HUP Editions, Amsterdam
Dutch/English, 2006
Limited edition 1000
ISBN 978-905973-044

Not long after young Dutch photographers Anouk Kruithof and Jaap Scheeren graduated from art college they were featured in a newspaper series on the future of art-school graduates which was titled The Black Hole. For Kruithof and Scheeren, who were determined to make a name for themselves as photographers, that title became a theme for an ambitious project: a series of associative photographs on depression, black-outs, the universe and actual black holes. The result is this multi-dimensional publication, in which pictures relate to each other in ever-changing variations, filling the black hole no matter how you define it in new and surprising ways. This fresh, innovative publication was the first winner of the Unique Photography Prize awarded by HUP Gallery Amsterdam.