Orbit
Tom Callemin
2020
Publisher: Self-published by Des Palais
ISBN: 9789464202618

In Orbit different projects from Belgian artist Tom Callemin, made in the past four years, are compiled and accompanied by short descriptions to give insights on how the images came about. The book is designed as a binder with foldouts.

The title Orbit refers to the principal theme in the book, which is ‘time’ and the idea of things reoccurring within it. Some images explicitly refer to these ‘orbits’ by portraying the moon or the sun on their path, which is humans‘ way to measure the passage of time.

Des Palais is a collaboration between Belgian visual artists Tom Callemin and Bieke Depoorter. Both Callemin and Depoorter studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where Callemin is affiliated as a researcher. Depoorter is a member of the photographic cooperative Magnum Photos. After years of friendship and countless conversations about photography and books, the two artists decided to finally join forces and start a self-publishing platform. This was decided at a small bar in Brussels called Des PalaisDes Palais aims to make personal and unique books. By thinking about the concept of what an artist book is and can be, the collective wants to make publications that are uncompromising, setting the content, integrity and concepts of the work as the clear priority.  Des Palais intends to do more than self publishing own books. Callemin and Depoorter want to create an arena for discussion and interchange, a place where books and projects from other photographers can be conceptualized and brought to life as well.

Concept: Lara Kinds, Bieke Depoorter & Tom Callemin
Graphic design: Lara Kinds
Text editing: Catie Young
Edition of 600
ISBN 9789464202618

25 x 30 cm, Hardcover
€ 42