
I would love to make a photo project about you
- Publisher
- Dienacht Publishing
- Year
- 2026
- Specifications
- Handbound, printed edges, silkscreened bookbinding ribbon
17 × 23 cm
1,800 pages
Booklet with essay by Diane Smyth
Typography concept: Ekaterina Lupanova
Design: Calin Kruse, Yana Kruse
Edition of 50
In 2020 Merel Hegenbart met Doro, a young Croatian woman who had moved into a room down the corridor of her flat, and the encounter became an eight-month multimedia project about Doro's freedom, photography and the evolving relationship between them. Photographs, film stills, WhatsApp conversations, transcribed exchanges, scanned postcards and personal notes are ordered chronologically in a 1,800-page book, each copy hand-bound in about eight hours. The book asks what photography reveals, conceals, constructs or distorts, and reflects on womanhood, freedom and the strength of female connection between two young women from Croatia and the Netherlands.