The Europeans: Our Ancestral Home (2022) Special Edition

This Special Edition is available in four variants: The Elite, The Bohemian, The Cavalry Warrior and The Küküllero. Each variant comes with an archival photograph in the same size as the publication. The same photograph is also reproduced on the front cover.

You don’t have to choose now. After purchasing the Special Edition, we will contact you regarding your preferred version.

Specs
Publisher: The Europeans
Design: Kummer & Herrman
Hardcover: 112 pages
Dimensions: 175 x 219 mm (6.9 x 8.6 in.)
Archival print: 170 x 210 mm (6.7 x 8.4 in.)
Language: English / French
Print run: 120 copies (numbered)

Shipping July 2022

By purchasing this Special Edition, you are making an important contribution to the ideology of The Europeans. Thanks to your support, the retail price of the regular edition is only €9.50, allowing the work to remain accessible to a wide audience.

Since the first publication of The Europeans (The Former Capital), we have offered the possibility to adopt a region for €120. If you do so before the printing deadline (22 May 2022), your name will be included in the colophon of the Special Edition, and you will receive one copy free of charge as a thank you.

Afterwards, this unique hardcover edition, limited to 120 copies and including a print in the same format, will remain available while stocks last.

The Europeans is a portrait of modern Europe. Travelling from region to region and from theme to theme in this multi-year project, photographer Rob Hornstra and writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen are creating a 21st-century timepiece on the European Heartland.

Hornstra and van Bruggen see Europe on the eve of drastic change. Populism and authoritarianism are on the rise, and ghosts from the past seem to be returning.

The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson published his book Les Européens in 1955. He looked beyond nationalism and local customs in the individual countries, searching for evidence of a greater identity — a European parable shared by people and landscape.

More than sixty years later, Hornstra and van Bruggen share this ambition. It is time to create a new version of The Europeans.

“They have just started and it will probably take years, but the result will undoubtedly compete with the classic The Americans, in which Robert Frank painted a portrait of post-war America in 1958.”
— Het Parool, 2019