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About the booksWho will recognize a great book better than a bookstore? A bookstore run by graphic designers. Here’s why: at MENDO we get market feedback seven days a week, we are blessed to be surrounded by a bunch of talented, inspiring people – photographers, writers and publishers – and after being a bookstore for more than 15 years, we can easily say we know what book aficionados are looking for. Don’t you agree that initiating, creating and realizing jaw-dropping books now, only comes natural?
A MENDO publication is a well-designed book with visually stunning creative content, browsed by people to be amazed and inspired. The subject-matter is one of our pre-defined curated categories, fashion, photography, interior, sport, lifestyle, food and traveling. In general, a MENDO book is a piece of furniture in itself.
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An important document that exudes eroticism, humor and guts
Jan Versteegh & Tim Hofman (2012)
One of the most spectacular L’HOMO. covers, not least because in the image editing Jan's arm was accidentally shopped away. Two straight presenters who are tongue-in-cheek for gay acceptance - many people thought a lot of it. The promotional video went viral.
L’HOMO. Le Book, compiled by the editor-in-chief of L’HOMO. Iebele van der Meulen, and designed by MENDO, looks back on more than eleven years of love and looks forward to a more inclusive society where diversity is celebrated and everyone is visible.
In the 2010s the magazine grew into the gay medium in the Netherlands. At a time when LGBTI acceptance is increasingly under pressure, L’HOMO. Le Book is an important document that exudes eroticism, humor and guts. All texts are in Dutch.
Iebele van der Meulen
‘My life was good, when I came out it became magical.’
High-profile and taboo-breaking. The sexy covers of Arie Boomsma, Tim Hofman and Jan Versteegh, among others, have not escaped the attention of many. Every year L’HOMO – from the makers of LINDA. – knew to generate an enormous amount of publicity for LGBT emancipation in the Netherlands. The acceptance of the LGBTI community – and anyone who does not agree with one of these letters – is very important to them. L’HOMO. Le Book, compiled by the editor-in-chief of L’HOMO. Iebele van der Meulen, looks back on more than eleven years of love and looks forward to a more inclusive society where diversity is celebrated and everyone is visible.
2013
From the series: Nieuwe Bril, new glasses, photographed by Paul Graves
L’HOMO. Le Book contains the highlights of 12 issues of the groundbreaking magazine, as well as new content created for the book. Featured photographers include Marc de Groot, Robin de Puy, Alex, Jouk Oosterhof, Erwin Olaf, Dirk Kikstra, Philippe Vogelenzang, Ernst Coppejans, Wendelien Daan, Pieter Henket, and many more.
L’HOMO. grew from a magazine exclusively for gays to an all-round brand for the entire LGBTI community. This book looks back with spectacular images and poignant stories and looks ahead with never-before-published photos and human interest stories. A book full of love and guts, where the sexyness splashes and where the acceptance and visibility of the entire LGBTI community is viewed with a critical eye. L’HOMO. Le Book is published on May the 17th, 2021, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
Ira Kip (40), theater- & filmregisseur
“We are culture. The fashion, the style, the history, the slang, the music, the knowledge, the braids, the sneakers, the swag, who that? That’s white girls, copying gay boys copying black woman”
Marc de Groot (2021)
Left: Flip Zonne Zuijderland (23), actor and director. Right: Dante Kedde (18), model and student art academy.
Rikkert van Huisstede (27), theater maker and founder of Boys Won’t Be Boys.
Erwin Olaf
Ik hou van mij (2009) - When we finally come out, we dive into the gym. Photographer Erwin Olaf thinks this is nonsense and proves that every body has its own beauty.
Shop tis celebration of a decade of L’HOMO at MENDO. Now available.
‘We'll get there, slowly but surely. Kind of like me in high heels’
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