
On Heaven's Doorsill
- Publisher
- Dienacht Publishing
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-3-946099-38-3
- Specifications
- Hardcover, open thread stitching, two cut-outs on the covers
Japanese structured paper on the cover
Offset printing
16.5 × 22 cm
120 pages
English and Romanian
Edition of 500
Design and editing: Calin Kruse, Yana Kruse
Printing and binding: Future Format, Greece
Winner of the Fotobus Award
Longlisted for The Best German Book Design, Stiftung Buchkunst
Selected for Fotografia Europea, exhibition "Keep The Fire Burning"
Shortlisted for Photo ESPAÑA, Best Photography Book of the Year Award
On Heaven's Doorsill investigates the layered beliefs about the afterlife in rural Romania, delving into mythology, folk tales and ancient traditions. It is inspired by the artist's grandmother, Alexandra, who dreamed that her late husband would come for her at harvest time, and by the Romanian folk ballad The Ewe, in which a shepherd imagines his death as a cosmic wedding at heaven's gate. The liminal space of the photographs is one where the ordinary turns eerie and the boundary between the living and the dead fades: rituals that offer solace and unease, the weight of the past, and the presence of spirits among the living.