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Letters from Utopia (edition)
EDITION + INKJET PRINT OF CHOICE
  • Daan Paans (NL)

Edition with print A (Cryostats)
 100
Edition with print B (Mandarom)
 100
150 × 193 mm
160 pages
English
Classic hardcover in box with print of choice
TEC015E
Limited edition: 10
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection
  • Letters from Utopia (edition) - The Eriskay Connection

Concept and photography:
Daan Paans

Edit:
Frank van der Stok

Essay:
Jos de Mul

Translations:
Rosie Heinrich

Text editing:
D’Laine Camp (essay)

Design:
Rob van Hoesel

Production:
Lecturis (NL)

Supported by:
Mondriaan Fund

This special edition box contains the book and one of two available prints: Cryostats (A) or Mandarom (B), signed and numbered.

About the book:
For the book Letters from Utopia photographer Daan Paans went looking for people who want to extend the human lifespan extremely or even aim to become immortal. He examined five different movements and their protagonists who seek a utopian world order. In five chapters he shows stories that range from an occult belief from the past to a scientific outlook for the future. Overcoming ones (own) mortality, aiming for infinite life, fascinates man since immemorial times. The physical immortality in this case. Because when we leave aside the particular religious assumption of an ‘afterlife’, a fascinating area remains in which a variety of ways to extend life is considered and experimented with. It is here where Paans’ fascination starts.

Daan Paans is a documentary photographer who, with his photography, aims to depict the ineffable and invisible. Because he is drawn to matters that, due to their intangible nature or abstraction, don’t lend themselves well to depiction, he looks in particular for a form of (visual) evocation; a visual language that refers indirectly to the subject in question, thereby committing the viewer and giving them responsibility.

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