Les enfants terribles (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
‘De tijd daarna: 30 jaar Hiv and Aids in Nederland’
[The time there-after: 30 years of HIV and Aids in the Netherlands]

2012
Book and film poster

The first time anyone was diagnosed with Aids in the Netherlands was in April 1982. In the more than 30 years since then, the situation regarding this deadly disease has undergone immense changes. These days, an Aids diagnosis is very rare in the Netherlands. Instead, people with HIV are living fully normal lives with what is essentially a chronic infection.

Author Erwin Kokkelkoren interviewed 30 different men and women who are living with HIV, each of whom was diagnosed in a different year from 1982 until 2012. Their stories surprise, move and inspire. Taken together, the portraits sketch the history of HIV and Aids in the Netherlands.

The 232-page hardcover book we designed was printed in full colour. Each of the individual stories opens with a two-page spread: text on the verso page and a full-page photograph on the recto page. For the typographical image we used the Collis typeface in both the title and the text.

The documentary film was produced in Dutch and English.

Publisher: Les Enfants Terribles / A.W. Bruna Uitgevers BV (Utrecht)
Text: Erwin Kokkelkoren
Photography: Erik Smits

see also:
Atlas ‘This is us‘
Atlas Docs
Atlas Virtual
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