Debaltsevo, Where Are You? is a story of a photographer Karine Zenja Versluis trying to explore her family history in the city of Debaltseve in the Donbass, Ukraine. Since the beginning of the search in 2013 everything turned out differently than expected. The book deals very delicately with this important and close topic. The editing of images and texts is done in such a way that allows the reader to become part of the stories and feel the emotions. Sometimes you have an image on a spread, sometimes they are located in a sequence together with text. All and all the words, the images, the space in the book, and the space book provides feel important, relevant and close.
Debaltsevo, Where Are You?
Edition: 2023
Date of publication: February 2023
Language: English, Ukrainian
Translator: Colleen Higgins, Isabella Rozendaal, Kateryna Levchenko
Image editor: Femke Lutgerink, Karine Zenja Versluis, Jeremy Jansen
Photographer: Karine Zenja Versluis
Artist: Karine Zenja Versluis
Publisher: The Eriskay Connection, Breda
Graphic designer: Jeremy Jansen (Amsterdam )
Lithographer: Marc Gijzen, Voorburg
Printer: Tielen, Boxtel
Binder: Patist, Zaltbommel
Size book block (w x h x d in mm): 165 × 240 × 17
Number of pages: 148
Print run: 750
Price: € 35
ISBN: 9789492051912
Binding style: Sewn softcover, Japanese-style folded pages, polyurethane gluing
Paper for interior (grammage): 90gsm UPM Soll Gloss, 90gsm UPM Sol Mat, 70gsm Holmen TRND Vintage, Antalis, Igepa
Material cover (grammage): 300gsm Gmund No colour No Bleach - Brown, Gmund