Een boek met foto’s van Paul Glazier en Anne Verhoijsen.
Het boek wordt uitgegeven in eigen beheer op 3 januari 2025
Prijs: € 35,=.  Click here to order.

An artist’s job is to articulate their relationship with the world and by placing oneself outside the
familiar it is sometimes easier to discern where you stand and through what lenses you are looking.
In late April of 2023 Anne Verhoijsen and Paul Glazier traveled together to Japan. Both had a long-
standing desire to visit the country and both, in their own ways, had felt a strong attraction to the
Japanese culture and aesthetic.

The journey was a combination of familiarity and strangeness, full of surprises
which at once resonated with what they already knew and sometimes totally shifted their sense of
the country and culture. Their first direct contact with the country and these shifting perspectives
are the subject of this series of photos.

Verhoijsen and Glazier have very different ways of seeing and of interacting with their
environment. By combining the two viewpoints, almost like a stereoscope, the impression of their
journey gains an extra dimension.

Both Verhoijsen and Glazier feel that is important to make a book to try and articulate these subtle
shifts of perspective, as outsiders, as travellers, as artists. In this digital age of instagram and
ephemeral snapshots they want to fix the images on fine paper and bind them into a volume that
reflects the care and love of aesthetic objects that they witnessed in Japan and which they share
themselves. There is a beauty in a few selected moments being captured in a print on paper and the
relative slowness of turning a page. With this book you can take time to savour the confluence of
two perspectives and reflect on your own relationship with your idea of Japan.

So, we would like to invite you to help us in realising this project.
The book contains 48 images, each image a combination of one photograph from Glazier with one
from Verhoijsen. Although they took photos of many subjects that they came across on their journey
it was decided to retain a theme of travel in each combination. There is a sense of being in transit, of
things seen or glimpsed in passing by. This reflects their status as travellers and acknowledges the
fact that they are outsiders looking with a sense of fresh wonder at a world that previously they
knew only though films, photographs and books. Hopefully this cycle will now continue forward as
their own images inspire in others new relationships with the idea of Japan.