Mensen van Menko: 1800 mensen fabriceren stoffen

Textile workers and factory production appear alongside staged scenes of working life. Commissioned for the textile firm's centenary, this corporate photobook combines industrial reportage with a picture story running from cradle to grave and images of variety entertainment. The production process forms a parallel sequence to that life story. Enthusiasm for work, adaptability and concentration are among the qualities depicted. Staged photographs of problems on the factory floor are accompanied by invented dialogues, bringing fictional exchanges into the account of industrial work. With text by Martie Verdenius, the publication uses Dutch, French and English. Its layout is comparable to that of the corporate photobooks VTF 25 and Oranje Nassau Mijnen.