Human Playground: Why We Play (Hardcover)
A photography book of startling beauty that shows people playing sports all over the world. Belgian Photographer Hannelore Vandenbussche has captured athletes, together with their motivations and their stories, in her unique photographs.
Born in Chile and raised in Belgium, Hannelore Vandenbussche is a photographer and creative entrepreneur, but first and foremost, she is a storyteller. In 2009, after graduating with a degree in photography, she spent nearly three years traveling around the world with Jimmy Nelson for his project Before They Pass Away (teNeues 2014). Together, they photographed the world's last remaining indigenous tribes for the book, which became a bestseller worldwide. Hannelore documented their epic journey in her book Before They Pass Away: the stories behind the photos. Her book became a bestseller in the Netherlands, is currently in its third edition, and was recently published in English. During her adventurous travels, Hannelore was inspired by the different types of sports and games she saw around the world, which led to her most ambitious project to date: Human Playground.