Seth Lower - The Sun Shone Glaringly MACK Bertien Van Manen first visited

Bertien Van Manen first visited the region in 1985 and returned periodically up until 2013 to visit mining families with whom she lived

Their common history provides an indispensable background to discussions of what has been called the contemporary past – modernity considered as an open problem rather than a closed historical period

until the ideal city is multiplied into an ornament: fans and concentric circles

emotions which are still more associated with woman than men

Valiz & Casco (Amsterdam)

Seth Lower - The Sun Shone Glaringly MACK Bertien Van Manen first visitedSeth Lowers second photobook explores an observation he made about Los Angeles after moving to the city in 2010: the slippages between the real and mediated experience. Throughout the book, the comically unresolved drama of our unnamed hero emerges from several distinct elements: photographs of generic but oddly familiar movie set locations around the city; portraits of aspiring actors glaring into the sun; awkwardly poetic dialogue and screenplay