ERIK KESSELS

Erik Kessels (1966) is a Dutch artist, designer and curator with a particular interest in photography, and creative director of KesselsKramer, an advertising agency in Amsterdam.[1][2] Kessels and Johan Kramer established the "legendary and unorthodox"[1] KesselsKramer in 1996, and KesselsKramer Publishing, their Amsterdam-based publishing house.[3]

He is "best known as a book publisher specialising in absurdist found photography",[4] extensively publishing his and others' found and vernacular photography.[5] Notable works include the long-running series Useful Photography, which he edits with others, and his own In Almost Every Picture.[3][6][7][8][9] Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said "His magazine, Useful Photography, forgoes art and documentary for images that are purely functional. ... Humour is the unifying undercurrent here as it is in KesselsKramer's series of photo books, In Almost Every Picture".

Books by Erik Kessels
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