About the project
“In collaboration with Louis Vuitton and graphic designer Mark Schuijt we developed a customized box. On the exterior of the box you find a graphic-representation of the original Louis Vuitton trunk. The box contains a portfolio consisting of twenty-five unpublished photographs that were important for my development as a photographer. The box also includes a collection of vintage artifacts: a stereo view card of cliffs above Deir-el-Bahri leading to Luxor (c1900), a postcard of Bedouins praying (c1950), an original envelope from Cairo Winter palace from 1923 shortly after the Tomb of Tutankhamen was discovered, an original map (c.1870) showing the routes taken by Dr. Livingstone and explorers discovering Central Africa, an original newspaper clipping reporting the missing of Dr. Livingstone, a match book from the famous ‘The Zanzibar Café’ in NYC, a vintage hotel label from Hotel Cornavin, Geneva and a vintage stereo view card of Edgar Allen Poe’s home in New York. I’m fascinated by these fragments of history as stories behind objects always inspire me.”