Classic Collection
The pictures that made his name, and some never shown before
Koos van der Lende
It's not about the money, it's about the art. It has to be good for your soul, and for your whole being, to hang it in your house.
— Koos van der Lende, in conversation with Martin OsnerThe Classic Collection gathers the panoramas collectors have come back to for years, the pictures that made Koos van der Lende's name, alongside works from his archive offered here for the first time.
It ranges across the whole of his journey: the red hills of the Kunene and the dead trees of the Namib, the Wild Coast and the Kalahari, the royal wilderness of Hlane and the mopane of Kafue. Each one was made on slide film, often after days of waiting, and printed without digital alteration.
Koos is still adding his own stories to these pictures. Until they arrive, the notes beside each work tell you where it was made and what to look for.
- Works26 panoramas
- PlacesEight countries of Southern Africa
- Made onSlide film, 6 × 17 cm
- Edition25 of each, signed and numbered
- Sizes80 to 140 cm wide
- PricesFrom $980
The Works
Koos van der Lende
For close to two decades Koos van der Lende has travelled Southern Africa with a panoramic film camera, planning each picture days ahead, where the sun will fall, at what time, at what angle. He still works on traditional slide film, which is processed and scanned to make prints of rare quality.
His archive runs from the Namib to the Indian Ocean. Evidence of Mankind is drawn from it for this site, alongside the Classic Collection, Sacred Forests, the Water Pear Tree Collection, the Baobab Collection, Solitary Survivor and the Latest Release.
Moments of Grace, eighteen years of his panoramas from Angola to the Seychelles, a linen cloth covered, hand assembled book in a handmade leather pouch, opening to a full metre wide.