About The Book
As Real As It Gets is a photography project by Thomas Nolf exploring humanity’s need for escape through aviation culture. Between 2020 and 2024, Nolf traveled the globe, engaging with flight simulator enthusiasts, aircraft spotters, and visiting the world’s largest model airport, Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg. Through photography, simulated images, and archival footage, Nolf examines the dreamy allure of aviation. His stylized compositions blur the lines between reality and fiction, reflecting on the romanticism and artificiality of escape. Publisher’s Info
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About The Artist
Thomas Nolf is a Belgian visual artist and photographer best known for his long-term project on the Bosnian pyramids. Peculiar Artifacts in Bosnia and Herzegovina examines the ways in which national myths are formed, instrumentalised and frequently suppressed. Confounding fiction and documentary, fabled event and scientific enigma, Thomas Nolf looks into how nation-building ideology influences modes of storytelling, and vice versa. Thomas Nolf works and lives in Ghent.
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Specifics
Thomas Nolf: As Real As it Gets (Art Paper Editions, 2025) | Design and Edit: Thomas Nolf and Jurgen Maelfeyt | 24 × 30 cm | 200 pages | Hardcover | Edition of 750. Link.
