The Best PhotoBooks 15NL + 5 2016 de Volkskrant Photography

Because they open new worlds or the world around you transform it. Because they are so beautiful - and such fine Christmas gifts. Here they are: the fifteen best Dutch and the five best foreign books of 2016 according to the Volkskrant. It is emphatically not a top 15 and not a top-5.

Laura Hospes UCP 

Wies den Ouden 1 december 1995

Samuel Otte De Val

Lana Mesic Clever Eyes

Anna den Drijver Enchanted Blossom

Geisje van der Linden & Miriam Donkers Stella Maris

Jaya Pelupessy Set - Put - Run

Chrystel Lebas Field Studies, Walking through Landscapes and Archives

Marco van Duyvendijk Motsure Hotsure Tsumugu 

Martine Stig Noir

Otto Snoek Luchtspoor Rotterdam

Xiaoxiao Xu Aeronautics in the Backyard

Bob Siers XXX Photographs from 2006 2016

Marleen Sleewits On the Soft Edge of Space

Robin de Puy If This True

Roe Ethridge Neighbors

Peter Helles Eriksen, Sara Brincher Galbiati, Thomas Selnaes Markussen Phenomena

Robin Hammond My Lagos

Gregory Halpern ZZYZX

Takashi Homma The Narcissistic City