
Momentum of Light
- Publisher
- Lars Müller Publishers
- Year
- 2022
- Specifications
- Paperback
24 x 33 cm
180 pages
108 illustrations
Longlisted, Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award 2022
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2022, Author Book Award
Winner, AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers 2021
Best Dutch Book Designs 2021
Across the African continent, and especially in the sub-Saharan region, sunlight has a particularly stark quality — something apparent in traditional buildings and in the way the light shapes the daily routines of those who live in them. Without artificial light, architecture had to use the sun to create a source inside a building while protecting its inhabitants from its intensity. Iwan Baan photographs these buildings in Burkina Faso together with the architect Francis Kéré, following the movement of light through rooms built to hold it.