Sense of presence
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Text: Rogier Maaskant
Design: Rob van Hoesel
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2025 — Invitation by Prof. Alberto Zilli.
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May 2025 — National Geographic
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2024 — 18th International Symposium on Trichoptera
Publisher: The Eriskay Connection, the Netherlands
Text: Rogier Maaskant
Essay: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
Contributor: Rob de Vos, Collection manager butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera).
Naturalis, Leiden
Design: Rob van Hoesel
Edition: 1000
Size: 235x330 mm
Pages: 112
Language: NL/ENG
A limited number of copies remain available through selected international booksellers and directly from the artist.
Sense of presence is held in international university and museum libraries, including Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Getty Research Institute and Rijksmuseum Research Library. For complete list scroll all the way down.
2022 — Outdoor campaign Rotterdam
Five images on advertising columns.
2025 — Selected for the Prix du Livre, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France.
Tokyo Art Book Fair — 2025.
2024/2025 — Sense of presence, presented by The Eriskay Connection at Paris Photo and Polycopies, Paris.
2025 — Invitation by Prof. Alberto Zilli.
Museum of Natural History Rome.
Presentation of Sense of presence to specialists.
Rome, Italy
May 2025 — National Geographic
2024 — 18th International Symposium on Trichoptera
Presentation of Caddisflies. Movie and poster.
By invitation of Prof. Ralph Holzental
Quito, Ecuador.
- Naturalis Library
- Rijksmuseum Research Library Amsterdam
- Harrassowitz Wiesbaden
- Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Universitätsbibliothek Basel
- Zürcher Hochschule der Künste - Medien- und Informationszentrum
- Tufts University - Tisch Library
- Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
- Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek, München
- Fine Arts Library Harvard University
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- Princeton University Library
- New York University
- Yale Library
- University of Pennsylvania
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Bethel University Library
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Getty Research Institute
- Stanford University
- Naturalis Library
- Rijksmuseum Research Library Amsterdam
- Harrassowitz Wiesbaden
- Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Universitätsbibliothek Basel
- Zürcher Hochschule der Künste - Medien- und Informationszentrum
- Tufts University - Tisch Library
- Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
- Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek, München
- Fine Arts Library Harvard University
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- Princeton University Library
- New York University
- Yale Library
- University of Pennsylvania
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Bethel University Library
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Getty Research Institute
- Stanford University
- Rijksmuseum Research Library Amsterdam
- Harrassowitz Wiesbaden
- Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Universitätsbibliothek Basel
- Zürcher Hochschule der Künste - Medien- und Informationszentrum
- Tufts University - Tisch Library
- Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
- Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek, München
- Fine Arts Library Harvard University
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- Princeton University Library
- New York University
- Yale Library
- University of Pennsylvania
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Bethel University Library
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Getty Research Institute
- Stanford University
“Caddisflies, moths, mayflies and lacewings: they dance in great numbers on fragile wings in the darkness, hidden from the human eye — except from the keen eye of Rogier Maaskant, who captures them with his camera in a way that inspires both admiration and wonder.”
Kees Moeliker — biologist and former director & curator, Natural History Museum Rotterdam.
Kees Moeliker — biologist and former director & curator, Natural History Museum Rotterdam.