If this is true, I'll never have to leave home again [Signed]

246 pp.
24.5 × 33 cm
Softcover
English
Signed
New

Robin de Puy is a young Dutch photographer. She graduated from the Rotterdam Photo Academy in 2009 and won the Photo Academy Award that same year, followed four years later by the National Portrait Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous Dutch and international magazines, including New York Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Volkskrant and LINDA.

After winning the National Portrait Prize in 2013, De Puy came to be regarded as one of the most talented Dutch portrait photographers. As commissions began to pour in, she grew uncertain. In 2014, she felt she was gradually losing her unprejudiced gaze: “It’s a challenge to maintain an unbiased gaze while the expectations of others (and my own expectations) continue to grow.”

She made a radical decision — to undertake a 10,000 km journey through the United States alone on a Harley-Davidson. The aim was to reconnect, to return to what photography truly meant to her. The result is presented at the Museum of Photography in The Hague and in her first book, If This Is True, I’ll Never Have to Leave Home Again, published by Ludion.