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Our Ancestral Home (signed)

by Rob Hornstra

Photographs: Rob Hornstra

Text: Arnold van Bruggen

Publisher: The Europeans

112 pages

Year: 2022

Price: 9.50 €

Comments: Dimensions: 175 x 219 mm (6.9 x 8.6 in.); Language: English / French; Print run: 1,000 copies.

OUR ANCESTRAL HOME
‘Our Ancestral Home’ is the story of a stunningly beautiful region of Europe where the locals cherish their traditions, speak a mysterious language and pass down the picturesque houses and farms from generation to generation. That's how it has always been. But tourists and wealthy urbanites have now discovered the region, and the original inhabitants are succumbing to the lure of the exorbitant amounts that outsiders are willing to pay for a rural retreat. “We have sold our country,” activists lament. But who can resist the laws of capitalism?

THE EUROPEANS
This publication is part of The Europeans, a collaboration between writer Arnold van Bruggen and photographer Rob Hornstra. They previously worked together on The Sochi Project, which focused on the region around Sochi, the Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics. The Europeans is a ten-year quest to find the contemporary European at a time when Europe is struggling. Growing nationalism and populism are reviving old ghosts. Authoritarian regimes are on the rise and the political dream of a united and peaceful Europe is proving increasingly fragile. In the decade to 2030, Van Bruggen and Hornstra will document 20 regions in Europe. Each period spent in one of these regions culminates with an exhibition and the launch of a publication of the same name in the place where the work was made. This publication is the result of a period spent in a region entitled ‘Our Ancestral Home’, somewhere in Europe.

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Our Ancestral Home (signed)

by Rob Hornstra

Photographs: Rob Hornstra

Text: Arnold van Bruggen

Publisher: The Europeans

112 pages

Year: 2022

Price: 9.50 €

Comments: Dimensions: 175 x 219 mm (6.9 x 8.6 in.); Language: English / French; Print run: 1,000 copies.

OUR ANCESTRAL HOME
‘Our Ancestral Home’ is the story of a stunningly beautiful region of Europe where the locals cherish their traditions, speak a mysterious language and pass down the picturesque houses and farms from generation to generation. That's how it has always been. But tourists and wealthy urbanites have now discovered the region, and the original inhabitants are succumbing to the lure of the exorbitant amounts that outsiders are willing to pay for a rural retreat. “We have sold our country,” activists lament. But who can resist the laws of capitalism?

THE EUROPEANS
This publication is part of The Europeans, a collaboration between writer Arnold van Bruggen and photographer Rob Hornstra. They previously worked together on The Sochi Project, which focused on the region around Sochi, the Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics. The Europeans is a ten-year quest to find the contemporary European at a time when Europe is struggling. Growing nationalism and populism are reviving old ghosts. Authoritarian regimes are on the rise and the political dream of a united and peaceful Europe is proving increasingly fragile. In the decade to 2030, Van Bruggen and Hornstra will document 20 regions in Europe. Each period spent in one of these regions culminates with an exhibition and the launch of a publication of the same name in the place where the work was made. This publication is the result of a period spent in a region entitled ‘Our Ancestral Home’, somewhere in Europe.

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