Although my birthday was already 2 weeks ago, finally my birthday from Marion arrived today…
It is a photobook about the Dutch artist Ellen ten Damme called “Obsessie” (which translate from Dutch to “Obsession”). The photo’s are made by Danny Ellinger.
For 2 years Ellen allowed Danny Ellinger to follow her and make photo’s of her… 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. From dressing room to bed room, from car to trapeze. This all resulted in a very special photo book.
To be honest, having someone 24 hours per day around me with everything I do, would drive me crazy. But as I understand, it was not easy for them as well.
The book comes in a special box to store the book in a safe manner. Also a CD is added with 3 songs of Ellen. One of the songs is “Fotograaf” (“Photographer”), which she (partly, if I remembered well) recited at “Spoken” (February this year).
I really like this photo-book and it will fit very nicely to my collection of photo-books. But of course, as birthday present from Marion, and being about an artist that I really admire, will make this book even more special.
Just as with other photo-books I own, I learned things from this book and got new ideas photographs that I might make one day. Only that makes it worth having this book. Being a gift from Marion and the beautiful pictures in it, make it something to be very happy about!