HET DEBUUT VAN STEPHAN VANFLETEREN
NA VIJFTIEN JAAR OPNIEUW BEPERKT VOORRADIG

Fotografen Robert Huber en Stephan Vanfleteren reisden in 1999 door Amerika in het spoor van hun grote held Elvis Presley, verkleed als Elvis & Presley. Uitgedost in glitterpakken en met pruiken fotografeerden deze twee Europeanen elkaar in elf staten van de VS, van Times Square tot Death Valley. De Belgische Stephan Vanfleteren deed dat in zwart-wit, de Zwitserse Robert Huber in kleur.
Dit is geen boek over de echte Elvis of over de vele Elvis-imitators, maar wel een fantastische roadtrip van een icoon, waarbij het personage voortdurend in interactie treedt met de bezochte plaatsen, de mensen en de Amerikaanse geschiedenis van oppervlakkige ontmoetingen en goedkope motels.

Robert Huber is a Swiss photographer. He studied at the CEPV (Centre d'Enseignement Professionel de Vevey) in Switzerland (1991-1995). Two years later he moved to New York to work as an editorial photographer. From 2004 until 2006 he lived in Istanbul to pursue his career, and worked for several European and American magazines. He now lives in Zurich and works there as a commercial and editorial photographer and works on his own projects as well. Stephan Vanfleteren specializes in black-and-white portraits and reports extensively at home and abroad. He is currently working mainly for foreign newspapers and magazines. In 1998, Vanfleteren won the European Fuji Awards; in 1996, 1998 and 2000, he won five World Press Photo Awards and several Belgian press awards. He also won the German Henri Nannen Prize in 2011. In 2012, he received the five-yearly Culture Award for the Province of West Flanders and the National Portrait Award in the Netherlands. In 2013, he has won the World Press Photo Award for his series "People of Mercy" in the category "Staged Portraits.""