African Design Magazine ADM #36 December 2017 | Page 46

STREETS
OF THE
WORLD
Author Jeroen Swolfs sees the street as a universal meeting place,
a platform of crowds, a centre of news and gossip, a place of
work, and a playground for children.
een as a universal factor in any society, Streets of the World is a photo-
journal of collectively street imagery, exploring the dynamics of
societies across the world. Covering 200 countries, the journal took the
author over seven years to collect; write and fact check the visual
content.
Revealing everything that a street may mean to society through education,
wisdom and experience, this book offers a visual journey into the raw material of
life, with experiences drawn directly from the Author.
Each stunning image conveys culture, colours, rituals, even the history of the city
and country where he found them. Indeed, Swolfs's streets are a matrix for
community; his photographs are published at a time when the unique insularity
of local communities everywhere has never been more under threat.
Streets of the World is available on
ABOUT SWOLFS
After graduating from the Amsterdam Photo Academy, Jeroen Swolfs became a
freelance photojournalist. His work, which focuses on political and social issues,
includes a series about returned Serbian refugees and Roma minorities in Eastern
Europe.
He has photographed for National Geographic, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,
and many others.
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