Nomad reviews

“This strikingly beautiful and unusual photobook takes us on a multi-continent search for the last living nomadic peoples in the Northern Hemisphere. It's a remarkable journey, showing facets of modern-day nomadic cultures that are not quite what one would expect to find.”
    Jim Casper, LensCulture - Paris

“A stunning exercise in perspective-shifting, Nomad invites you to see the world - our world, and yet a world that feels eerily other - with new eyes, embracing it with equal parts fascination and profound human empathy.”
    Maria Popova, Brain Pickings - New York

“His pictures offer a poignant portrait of the way in which radical societal and ecological change is splintering communities”
    Robert Bound, Monocle - London

"This year, his obsession culminated in a gorgeous book called Nomad, co-authored with Jelle Brandt Corstius, in which he documents the beauty and harshness of nomadic life."
    Kirsten Philipkoski, Gizmodo - New York

“The result is astonishing. From the black and white portrait of a man and a predatory bird, provoking each other with vicious looks in the midst of a seemingly never ending desolate mountain landscape, to the intimate tent interior insights: Toirkens managed to capture these peoples’ qualities in every single photograph: Pride, inventiveness and hospitality.”
    GUP magazine - Amsterdam

“This project shows that a photographer can be so much more. Toirkens created a complete documentary of a form of life we possible may not know anymore in a few decades”
    Sterre Sprengers, NRC next - Amsterdam