We are back with a beautiful photo series by The Book Photographer, this time on the artist book RAIN, by Jannemarein Renout.

RAIN recently received multiple awards. It was part of the selection of The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2025, in the professional as well as of in the student selection. On top of that, RAIN is part of the shortlist of best book design from all over the world.

Later this fall RAIN will be exhibited at The Best Dutch Book Designs 2025 at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Designed by Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder), printed by Pantheon Drukkers, lithography by Alex Feenstra.

Visual artist Jannemarein Renout (b. 1969) works with the medium of photography to gain a better understanding of the influence of the digital image world around us. How we experience, know, judge and act in function of these images. In her practice, she explores the space for other ways of seeing in a world increasingly controlled by devices and algorithms. Her work emerges at the pivotal point of cooperation and struggle between humans and devices.

Included in the publication RAIN is a series of work that arose from constantly pushing the possibilities of the device and its programme. The artist placed office scanners outdoors. The scanner's lamp was turned off so that the programme became receptive to the changing outdoor light. Eventually, the scanners started painting with the rain. In this way, the rain was given a direct voice in a digital world. An enigmatic collaboration between the unpredictability of nature and the controlled world of the device.

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All the above images by The Book Photographer

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