BOREALIS

Photographer Jeroen Toirkens and writer Jelle Brandt Corstius have researched the stories of the boreal forests, a band of mainly coniferous trees that extends across Europe, Asia and North America, and the people who inhabit them. At a time when the effects of climate change can be seen and felt clearly, there is an urgent need to share these stories.

The book will coincide with the exhibition Borealis, life in the woods in the Fotomuseum The Hague, Jan-June 2021 and in the Anchorage Museum, Alaska, Oct 2021

Title BOREALIS trees and people of the northern forest Authors Jeroen Toirkens & Jelle Brandt Corstius
Book design Wout de Vringer
Edit Marc Prüst, Jeroen Toirkens
Publisher Lannoo, 2020
Language English, Dutch Pages 256 pages / 140 photos in duotone and full color
Size 32 x 25cm / hardcover with dust wrap/foldout poster
Size foldout poster 71 x 81cm

NOMAD

Since 1999, photographer Jeroen Toirkens has been documenting the raw reality of the last living nomads of the Northern Hemisphere. Globalisation, draught, poverty and climate change make it increasingly difficult for these peoples to maintain their traditional way of life. Toirkens' strong photographs and a heartfelt essay by Jelle Brandt Corstius give a gripping image of twelve journeys to some of the remotest places on earth.

“This strikingly beautiful and unusual photobook takes us on a multi-continent search for the last living nomadic peoples in the Northern Hemisphere. It's a remarkable journey, showing facets of modern-day nomadic cultures that are not quite what one would expect to find.”
Jim Casper, LensCulture - Paris

“His pictures offer a poignant portrait of the way in which radical societal and ecological change is splintering communities
Robert Bound, Monocle - London

Title NOMAD | Second printrun
Authors Jeroen Toirkens & Jelle Brandt Corstius (essay)
Book design Wout de Vringer
Edit Marc Prüst, Jeroen Toirkens
Publisher Lannoo, 2011
Language English, Dutch
Pages 208 pages / 150 photos in duotone and full color
Size 28 x 23cm / hardcover, halflinnen

SOLITUDE

Jeroen Toirkens and Petra Sjouwerman sketch an intimate portrait of people living in solitude in the Arctic North of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, an area called the Barents Region. Europe’s last true wilderness. The Dutch photographer Jeroen Toirkens (Nomad, 2011) and Scandinavian correspondent Petra Sjouwerman go in search of stories about people from this area. They are inspired by the wanderlust and courage of the sixteenth century Dutch explorer, Willem Barentsz, after whom this region is named. 

A unique diary of a journey along the Arctic Circle. Includes a historic epilogue by Diederik Veerman and quotes from the original diary of 1598.

Title SOLITUDE in the wake of Willem Barentsz
Authors Jeroen Toirkens & Petra Sjouwerman
Historic epilogue Diederik Veerman
Book design Wout de Vringer
Edit Marc Prüst, Jeroen Toirkens
Publisher Lannoo, 2013
Language English, Dutch
Pages 160 pages / 70 photos in full color
Size 22,5 x 17,5cm / hardcover cold cut