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Land of Ibeji

Sanne De Wilde & Bénédicte Kurzen


  • Hannibal Books
Land of Ibeji is the joint work of two photographers. Bénédicte Kurzen and Sanne De Wilde took fi rst prize in the World Press Photo Contest Portrait category with this project. In the book they explore the myth of twinhood in Ibeji, Nigeria. For the Yoruba people, 'double birth' and 'the inseparable two' represent the ultimate harmony between two people. Four times more twins are born in West Africa than in the rest of the world.

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ISBN 9789463887366 | EN | HB
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Publisher Hannibal Books
ISBN 9789463887366
Publication date July 2021
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 270 x 230 mm
Pages 224
Language(s) English ed.
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Photographers Sanne De Wilde (b. 1987, Belgium) and Bénédicte Kurzen (b. 1980, France) investigate the mythology of twins in Nigeria where the rate of natural twin births is higher than anywhere else in the world. As sacred beings, twins' magical and spiritual powers are celebrated with mythical fervour, but also condemned as unnatural. 'Ibeji', meaning 'double birth' and 'the inseparable two' in Yoruba, stands for the ultimate harmony between two people. Embracing this concept, the photographers created richly intriguing, intensely colourful portraits of twins.

They played with the concept of doubling to create an imaginative photographic story, using double exposures, mirror reflections and colour filters. Through these pictorial processes, the two artists produced inventive double portraits, while also working together as twin-like co-authors. Land of Ibeji is the magical, colourful result.