I Call Him Vincent is a deeply personal photobook about absence, imagination, and the quiet influence of someone who never existed.
As a child, Jurgen Onland often imagined having a brother. In his mind, Vincent became a constant companion—someone to share adventures with, to offer comfort in difficult moments, and to embody the confidence and connection he longed for. Although Vincent was never real, his imagined presence became an enduring part of the artist's inner world.
Years later, while raising his two sons, Onland found himself returning to this imagined relationship. Watching the bond between his children rekindled memories of the brother he never had, revealing how absence can shape a life as profoundly as presence. Through photographs, fragmented memories, and imagined narratives, I Call Him Vincent reconstructs a relationship that never existed, yet has always been emotionally real.
Designed with a Swiss binding and interwoven with separately printed colour images, the book moves between memory and fiction, reality and imagination. Rather than documenting a life, it explores how we create stories to fill the spaces left by what we miss—and how those stories quietly become part of who we are.
Specifications
First Edition
Limited edition of 50 copies
124 pages
148 × 210 mm (A5 Portrait)
Swiss Binding
Interior: 120 gsm Munken Kristall
Cover: 300 gsm Colorplan Smoke
Separate colour image inserts: 170 gsm Silk MC
I Call Him Vincent is a deeply personal photobook about absence, imagination, and the quiet influence of someone who never existed.
As a child, Jurgen Onland often imagined having a brother. In his mind, Vincent became a constant companion—someone to share adventures with, to offer comfort in difficult moments, and to embody the confidence and connection he longed for. Although Vincent was never real, his imagined presence became an enduring part of the artist's inner world.
Years later, while raising his two sons, Onland found himself returning to this imagined relationship. Watching the bond between his children rekindled memories of the brother he never had, revealing how absence can shape a life as profoundly as presence. Through photographs, fragmented memories, and imagined narratives, I Call Him Vincent reconstructs a relationship that never existed, yet has always been emotionally real.
Designed with a Swiss binding and interwoven with separately printed colour images, the book moves between memory and fiction, reality and imagination. Rather than documenting a life, it explores how we create stories to fill the spaces left by what we miss—and how those stories quietly become part of who we are.
Specifications
First Edition
Limited edition of 50 copies
124 pages
148 × 210 mm (A5 Portrait)
Swiss Binding
Interior: 120 gsm Munken Kristall
Cover: 300 gsm Colorplan Smoke
Separate colour image inserts: 170 gsm Silk MC