In Burkina Faso the light provided by the sun has a particularly stark quality—a fact that becomes apparent in traditional buildings. Architecture had to make use of sunlight to create a light source within a building, yet it had to protect the inhabitants from its intensity. The result is an architecture that works with very few or small openings. On the initiative of the lighting company Zumtobel Group, photographer Iwan Baan and architect Francis Kéré set out to capture how the sun’s natural light cycle shapes vernacular architecture. The design picks up on the theme of contrasts and implements it in the structure and materiality as well as in the choice of print. The outdoor & daylight shots are printed on white glossy pages, reflecting the light. In contrast, the dark indoor & night shots were produced using a special printing process that has ‘put light to paper’ by applying silver, white and CMY ink to black paper. Rough to the touch, the matt black paper ‘soaks up’ the light.

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Haller Brun

Iwan Baan

Francis Kéré

Francis Kéré

Francis Kéré

Fabiola Büchele

Adam Carmichael, Jessica Dixon, Emanuel Hagspiel, Maresa Hoffmann, Natalie Kreutzer, Markus Rademacher, Daniela Thanner

Fabiola Büchele, Sandra Leu, Bernhard von Mutius, Eve Streeter

Iwan Baan

robstolk Amsterdam

Zumtobel Group / Lars Müller Publishers