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Tag Archives: Netherlands
║ Gert Jan Kocken ║
© Gert Jan Kocken, from the series AmsterdamHotel Prins Hendrik, On the night of May 12th-13th Chet Baker, under the influence of drugs and alcohol, falls from this hotel window
© Gert Jan Kocken, from the series AmsterdamOn june 11 2001 Herman Brood commits suicide by jumping of the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel
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║Astrid Kruse Jensen ║
© Astrid Kruse Jensen, Green Street, from the series Imaginary Realities
© Astrid Kruse Jensen, Kasse, from the series Imaginary Realities
“By focussing on its less familiar aspects the space suddenly becomes alien. The elements we usually use to find our bearings are either hidden or distorted in the ‘artificial’ light. One of the results is that the viewer can begin to doubt the scale and dimensions of the image, as in Kasse and an image like Train Stop when seen just after Miniature World. Are we in a miniature model universe or the real world? Kruse Jensen’s photographs thus also question how we sense and experience our surroundings with both our bodies and our eyes. Her camera has ‘body’ – this is not a superficial gaze. Yet the images don’t only deal with the outside world at a phenomenological level. Their scenic quality also explores how space itself [architecture, fixtures, landscapes, etc.] influence the ways in which we interact. Her staging of a space reveals patterns of movement and social power structures not normally visible.“
Louise Wolthers
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Louise Wolthers
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║ Rob Hornstra ║
© Rob Hornstra, Untitled #15, from the series 101 Billionaires, 2008
© Rob Hornstra, Untitled #13, from the series 101 Billionaires, 2008
© Rob Hornstra, Untitled #7, from the series 101 Billionaires, 2008
“Under Vladimir Putin’s rule, Russia has reclaimed its position among the superpowers of the world in the past eight years, the economic recession and the tumultuous nineties seemingly all but forgotten. Thanks to the country’s huge abundance of raw materials such oil and natural gas, the Russian economy is flourishing as never before. After a mere 18 years of capitalism, the January 2008 issue of Finans Magazine reported that there are currently 101 billionaires in Russia. It is difficult to detect much prosperity in the book “101 Billionaires”, which portrays an entirely different segment of the Russian population. Far away from the glitter and glamour of Moscow, the world’s most expensive city, we find the impoverished Russians, victims of the ‘tough-as-nails’ capitalism with which Russia made its name immediately after the fall of Communism.”
Rob Hornstra
Rob Hornstra
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║ Levi van Veluw ║
© Levi van Veluw, Landscape I, from the series Landscapes
© Levi van Veluw, Gravel, from the series Material Transfers
Levi van Veluw´s photo series are all self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers – modifying the face as object – combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object with a large visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object. Giving familiar elements such as a ballpoint-line a new context results in a confusing conflict between the objects normal associations and the new values given it in this new context. The author and object of these elemental transfers , Levi van Veluw explains his method: “I sit in front of a mirror with several objects and ideas. That day, the process takes shape, and slowly I create a new object I find interesting.”
Source: Ronmandos Gallery
Source: Ronmandos Gallery
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║ Risk Hazekamp ║
© Risk Hazekamp, Under Influence/Catherine Opie, from the series Under Influence, 2007
© Risk Hazekamp, Superman, from the series Straight from Berlin, 2007
“This tension between the biological and the social -or even aesthetic- is echoed in other new works such as “Superman”. The eponymous logo stencilled onto a female chest mainlines its point about our individual body in contrast to what we feel about it or how we might actually want to look. And, interestingly for Hazekamp’s artistic development, together with the other works in the new series, it does so with a more gritty, faux documentary style that we associate with both Berlin underground cultures and German art photography. If femininity -whatever that means- has still not penetrated the flesh of Risk Hazekamp, it seems that the history of her new home certainly has.”
Ken Pratt
Ken Pratt
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║ Martin Luijendijk ║
© Martin Luijendijk, Crematieoven, from the series Edges of the city, 2005
© Martin Luijendijk, Couveuse, from the series Edges of the city, 2005
© Martin Luijendijk, Sexclub, from the series Edges of the city, 2005
“The basic idea is the entire coexistence of the city, the human society. The attention is focused on the metaphorical edges and borders of the complex society, in as many respects as possible: social, cultural, economic, religious, sexual, accommodating, mental, physical, scientific, recreational, sportive.
The series consists of neutral photos of spaces from which man seems to have temporarily withdrawn. What kind of people do normally enter into these settings, what role do they play and how do they relate to the rest of society.
Together these images give a rough sketch of the boundaries of a metropolitan network of coexistence.”
Martin Luijendijk
The series consists of neutral photos of spaces from which man seems to have temporarily withdrawn. What kind of people do normally enter into these settings, what role do they play and how do they relate to the rest of society.
Together these images give a rough sketch of the boundaries of a metropolitan network of coexistence.”
Martin Luijendijk
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║ Olga Gorissen ║
© Olga Gorissen, Acadyane, 2005
© Olga Gorissen, Berken, 2001║ Bart Dykstra ║
© Bart Dykstra, Untitled #8, from the series Very Important Interior Pleasures
© Bart Dykstra, Untitled #6, from the series Very Important Interior Pleasures
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║ Koos Breukel ║
Images were removed due to permisson and copyrights issues.
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║ Melanie Bonajo ║
© Melanie Bonajo, Waiting for something beautiful to happen, 2002
© Melanie Bonajo, Are all cliches true o3, 2007
“My ideas are jingles in my head, they come to me. To be able to make a song i have to give stucture to the melodies, like i have to put the thoughts and idea’s into matter to be able to impart the information and touch someone like it touched me first.
My work is an irregular impulse of experiences and aesthetic enjoyments stemming from the questions I have and the things that I know. I am not interested in a particular truth or a common reality, but I do have to understand and embody my truth, which I find from looking within. Although these things might be universal, consequently, questioning myself leads to the act of questioning you. Nothing should control the spirit.
My method of practice, making photographs, is simply a way of recording these thoughts. Primary to this visual diary is the notion of breaking free from everything that holds one down, such as: emotions, patterns, motions and
expectation.
I attempt to shape awareness by giving expression to the contradictions of contemporary life -with dignity. Re-contextualising and reframing the world through my lens, I attempt to leave a feeling of something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar or inexplicable. I create wonder with vengeance about the true nature of things, from my point of view. This outcome – art – must hit someone with its mental and emotional power so you can feel what you see. You can not turn your head away. I believe our language has to be physical in order to touch someone. After any word or image which is a collection of many words hids energy.
Holding your gaze upon my photographs is an invitation to play. Confrontation can be liberating but it can also be bizarre. Melancholy and humor are important aspects for me. It might hurt a little, too.”
Melanie Bonajo
My work is an irregular impulse of experiences and aesthetic enjoyments stemming from the questions I have and the things that I know. I am not interested in a particular truth or a common reality, but I do have to understand and embody my truth, which I find from looking within. Although these things might be universal, consequently, questioning myself leads to the act of questioning you. Nothing should control the spirit.
My method of practice, making photographs, is simply a way of recording these thoughts. Primary to this visual diary is the notion of breaking free from everything that holds one down, such as: emotions, patterns, motions and
expectation.
I attempt to shape awareness by giving expression to the contradictions of contemporary life -with dignity. Re-contextualising and reframing the world through my lens, I attempt to leave a feeling of something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar or inexplicable. I create wonder with vengeance about the true nature of things, from my point of view. This outcome – art – must hit someone with its mental and emotional power so you can feel what you see. You can not turn your head away. I believe our language has to be physical in order to touch someone. After any word or image which is a collection of many words hids energy.
Holding your gaze upon my photographs is an invitation to play. Confrontation can be liberating but it can also be bizarre. Melancholy and humor are important aspects for me. It might hurt a little, too.”
Melanie Bonajo
║ Jasper Groen ║
© Jasper Groen, Untitled, from the series Jeffrey
© Jasper Groen, Untitled, from the series Jeffrey
Belgian Teenager Jeffrey changes in three years time from breakdancer into neonazi…
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║ Anouk Kruithof & Jaap Scheeren ║
© Anouk Kruithof and Jaap Scheeren, Untitled from the series The Black Hole, 2004-2006
© Anouk Kruithof and Jaap Scheeren, Untitled from the series The Black Hole, 2004-2006
“My most important and primarily finished project after graduation Bachelor Art studies is the extensive photography project “The Black Hole”.
I worked on this in cooperation with Jaap Scheeren from the beginning of 2004 until halfway 2006.
“The Black Hole” is an associative pictorial essay, within which the extremely intangible subject “the black hole” is enlightened from very varying perspectives.
Several figurative and literal meanings of the black hole, as e.g. depression, the universe, black-outs, literal black holes and experiences of isolation are substantially enlightened.
The bases of these photos are, next to information from literature and the internet, mainly interviews with experienced experts like psychologists, sociologists, astronomists and psychiatrical patients. The viewer of “the black hole” is nearly undetectably sucked into the sensory world of a parallel reality, which is agonizingly close to “the black hole thinking”.
The images are to be considered, in both their effect as their mutual coherence, as a perpetuum mobile, wherein the viewer is unendlessly stimulated to make new connections.”
Anouk Kruithof
I worked on this in cooperation with Jaap Scheeren from the beginning of 2004 until halfway 2006.
“The Black Hole” is an associative pictorial essay, within which the extremely intangible subject “the black hole” is enlightened from very varying perspectives.
Several figurative and literal meanings of the black hole, as e.g. depression, the universe, black-outs, literal black holes and experiences of isolation are substantially enlightened.
The bases of these photos are, next to information from literature and the internet, mainly interviews with experienced experts like psychologists, sociologists, astronomists and psychiatrical patients. The viewer of “the black hole” is nearly undetectably sucked into the sensory world of a parallel reality, which is agonizingly close to “the black hole thinking”.
The images are to be considered, in both their effect as their mutual coherence, as a perpetuum mobile, wherein the viewer is unendlessly stimulated to make new connections.”
Anouk Kruithof
More of Jaap’s work can be seen here
More of Anouk’s work can be seen here
║ Hellen Van Meene ║
© Helen Van Meene, Untitled (#77)
© Helen Van Meene, Untitled (#141)
© Helen Van Meene, Untitled (#119)“The central theme in my work is photographing girls who are at the point of budding into maturity. Girls who are in that stage of their lives in which they become a woman. This theme actually came about quite spontaneously and almost intuitively. It stays close to myself. I can relate to them, I understand them better, I see in them what I once was. Their attitude is still open; they are not really committed yet, they are still playful and open-minded, they still have this touching susceptibility, they are still themselves.
The photographs are not meant to be portraits, which is why they have no titles. It is not my intention to give expression to their personality or state of mind. Nor do I want to sketch a sociological image of contemporary youth or girls at the moment of puberty. I look for a certain mood in the pictures, in which the girls almost figure as actors. As a matter of fact I treat my models as objects which you can direct and guide. They are simply material for me.”
Hellen Van Meene
