2023Book designShepherds and the Slaughterhouse Book design for the Slovene-based Taiwanese photographer Simon Chang.
1. Winner of the 2023 Best Book Design Award at the Slovenian National Book Fair
2. Winner of the 2024 Type Directors Club Communication design award3. Winner of the 2024 Belfast Photo Festival Photo-Book Award
4. Shortlisted at the 2024 Brumen Design Award
5. Shortlisted at the 2024 Athens Photo Festival Pick: 24 Book Award
Studio AA
23 X 15 cm
Munken Pure Rough 120g
Holmen Book Cream 1.8 80g
Freelife Oikos Extra White 80g
Offset Printing
A 208-page photobook
A
160-page essay book
A
colour poster
Bound with a 4 arm black rubber band
English, Slovenian, Mandarin
Kurdistan was, in the past years, often the center of photojournalistic reporting. An autonomous region spanning across the north of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, it has been subjected to violence from Islamic radical groups (most recently) since 2014. But where many photographers turned their lens towards the conflict itself, Simon Chang seemed to be more interested in the less obvious wounds of the nation, ones concealed even inside it. Between two visits to north Iraq – one in 2018 and one in 2019, he became interested in two places existing as part of everyday life yet removed or rejected from the eye of the public. The first was Hawler, a psychiatric hospital in Erbil, and the second The Duhok Municipal Slaughterhouse in the mountains of Simele. The photographer documented his encounters both with photographs and in writing, enabling the reader to immerse themselves in the stories of the Kurdish people and catch a glimpse of their extraodrinary lives.