
Detour Rotterdam
- Publisher
- Van Zoetendaal Publishers
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-90-72532-59-6
- Specifications
- Otabind
13.5 × 30.5 cm oblong
144 pages
Full colour
Text by Sandra Smets
Concept: snoek and van zoetendaal
Design by Willem van Zoetendaal
In a world where freedom of choice is the highest good, the city-planning equivalent is the intersection, and the detour is precisely where the magic happens: a clandestine opportunity to escape the paths laid out for us. Otto Snoek photographs main arteries and side streets uncovered on random road trips through Rotterdam, kindred to the détournement of the avant-garde a century ago. The infrastructural sites are designed for car drivers, yet none of them appears: these are empty photographs, a city set after a show has ended, with a sense of alienation and no promise of blissful emptiness.