Ivo von Renner (b. Hamburg 1949 lives in Hamburg works around the world) is best known as
the creator of iconic advertising photographs for campaigns by VW Triumph-Adler and Pernod.
With To You from Afar the photographer artist and traveler now presents a very personal
book. More than two hundred postcards he wrote to his family over the past three decades add up
to a moving portrait of the comforts of home as well as the lure of distant lands. Moments and
years places and scenes gripping plots and spontaneous ideas coalesce around deftly arranged
tableaus to tell an irresistible story that spans the globe. It invites explorers and dreamers
the curious and the restless to discover an important truth: wherever our voyages take us the
most important souvenir we return with is the sense of being a little more at home with
ourselves. With a preface by Wolfgang Joop.
