Erik Kessels & Karel De Mulder — Man

A book by Erik Kessels and Karel De Mulder built around one arrangement in group photographs: a single man in the middle, with as many women standing to his left as to his right.

The book holds 378 photographs. It leaves open whether the man takes that central place by design, by habit or by chance, and whether this way of lining up for the camera belongs to an earlier era or will carry on for as long as one man poses with several women.

RVB Books, 2025. 768 pages, softcover with dust jacket, 11 x 16 cm.