Checked baggage 3264 prohibited items

The Checked Baggage photobook was the first of two graduation projects by Christien Meindertsma for Design Academy Eindhoven. The book's content is an exhaustive catalogue of all the items confiscated from travellers in a one-week period at Schiphol airport. Everything from children’s cutlery to potato knives, hairdressers’ scissors to nail clippers were amongst the items seized and later photographed and depicted in the book. Meindertsma wanted to capture the strangeness of this situation; the confiscation of what were sometimes personal items at a time when security was heightened, and to demonstrate it visually. 2000 books were published and with each one sold, the purchaser also received one of the original confiscated items.