2024, Jakob Ganslmeier & Ana Zibelnik
In recent years, there has been a notable surge in right-wing extremism on a global scale. Artist duo Jakob Ganslmeier and Ana Zibelnik amalgamate seemingly innocuous imagery sourced from social media platforms to delve into the contemporary manifestations of radicalisation in the online sphere. GIGA comprises a series of video works that offer an incisive...

2023, Jakob Ganslmeier, Ana Zibelnik, Onias Landveld
If a tree fell in a forest and nobody was around to hear it, did it actually make a sound? Following this philosophical thought experiment, the multi-screen video installation If a Tree Fell in a Forest triggers the question whether perpetratorship we are not aware of, matters. In a time of growing right-wing extremism, Redpilled, Public...

2022, Jakob Ganslmeier, Ana Zibelnik
Why does the fascination with Nazi ideology keep resurfacing today? How easily is an ideological vision (re)constructed? Why are hateful messages so often disguised as images of hope? Are buildings with violent histories forever contaminated, or can they still serve as living or work spaces? These are some of the questions raised by the video...

2022, Émeric Lhuisset, Mykola Riabchuk
On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. According to President Putin it is a “military operation” to denazify Ukraine. In reality, it is a war of aggression, a reaction to the rapprochement of a sovereign country to the West. For many Ukrainians, this came as no surprise. In fact, their country has been...

2022, Jakob Ganslmeier, Jongsma + O'Neill, Onias Landveld, Simon Stranger
Houses of Darkness (2020-2023) is a culture cooperation project co-funded by Creative Europe and a joint initiative of four partners in Norway, Germany, and the Netherlands: Bergen-Belsen Memorial (DE), Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre (NL), Falstad Centre (NO), and Paradox.  Addressing perpetrator perspectives at a Nazi camp memorial site is a contested task. After WW2, the...

2021, Mostafa, Qutaeba, Ali, Amir
Paradox is supporting the collective initiative Now You See Me Moria with realising its action book. Find out more about the project below. Contribute to fundamental change in EU migration policy In August 2020 Amir, a refugee stuck in Moria and Noemi, an Amsterdam based photo editor decided to publish pictures of life at the camp...

2021, Frank van der Salm
NOWHERE – Imagining The Global City focuses on the past 25 years work of Dutch artist/photographer Frank van der Salm and consists of a large-scale exhibition featuring a video wall (powered by Artificial Intelligence), a collection presentation, a public program and a book. Paradox (project initiator), Nederlands Fotomuseum (partner and venue) and Frank van der...

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The weekly return to childhood / João Nuno Coelho Portugal, 2004. The year Portugal organised the European Football Championship: eight grandiose stadiums built from the ground up, two more renovated. But, across the country, most continue to play on bare, aged and derelict fields. We are in the realm of the pure, of those who...

2020, Hans van der Meer
No amateur football, no professional football, no Champions League, no UEFA Euro 2020, no champions this year. For over a century, football has brought people together. Now, ‘the most important side issue in life’ has come to a grinding halt. European Fields by Hans van der Meer, a project including a book and a travelling...

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Human Foibles And Fellowship / David Winner Beside the drystone wall of a Victorian cemetery in Yorkshire, a group of amateur footballers in blue and black are putting up goalposts. They drape nets awkwardly across top beams, jiggle the uprights into position, laugh. In the absence of anything as new-fangled as a changing room with toilets,...

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Van Melkenbeke’s Garage / Jan Mulder The greatest pitch I’ve ever played football on, is Union’s Dudenpark in Brussels. On the far side of the antique wooden grandstand there was a sloping hill for the fans to stand on. The wood rose behind it. Trees, preferably very tall ones, add drama to the match. Sleet is...

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Sunday Football… / Matteo Dore It’s a man re-chalking the lines on the pitch in the shadow of a block of flats, or along a row of poplars, or behind an old farmhouse, looking onto the mountains or perhaps onto an industrial warehouse. It’s a bench that only a few can sit on while the...

2019, Ad van Denderen, Lebohang Tlali, Margalith Kleijwegt
In the early 1990s Dutch photographer Ad van Denderen and journalist Margalith Kleijwegt travelled to Welkom, a small mining town in South Africa, to document the last days of apartheid. The growing tensions between the white and the black community often lead to unrest. The city was seen as an example of how things could...

2019, Hester den Boer
During the thirty year rule of Stalin millions of innocent citizens were imprisoned in the forced labour camps of the Gulag, exiled or excuted. Russia has never fully confronted this dark history. Today, Putin’s regime glorifies the idea of a strong leader. Stalin is praised for leading the Soviet Union to victory over Nazi Germany....

2018, Issa Touma
In 2012, photographer Issa Touma was forced to leave his home in Aleppo. Reluctant to abandon his country, family and friends, he travelled back and forth several times until East Aleppo was taken back by the regime (SAA) in December 2016. Notes from Aleppo shows the residents’ painstaking efforts to restore normality in daily life....

2018,
What do White House intern Monica Lewinsky and dancer Mata Hari have in common? What is novelist Harry Mulisch doing alongside Fidel Castro? And Bep van Klaveren and Regilio Tuur? Sure, both boxers, both Dutch, only separated by time… but what other layers does their juxtaposition reveal? The way we look at history is always...

2017, Joana Choumali, Marijn Heemskerk
We associate chocolate with celebration, comfort, romance. But do we ever associate it with the farmers – and often children – who literally make the product possible? West Africa produces almost three quarters of the world’s cocoa, 70% of which is consumed in Europe and North America. More than 2 million child labourers work on...

2018, Kadir van Lohuizen, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Ali Noureldine, Ezz Al Zanoon, Sarka Vancurova, Yasmine Omari
For Israelis, May 1948 marks the creation of the State of Israel. For Palestinians, it marks the Nakba (‘catastrophe’): more than 700.000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes. Today – exactly 70 years later – those 700.000 have exceeded six million. 48 Stories presents the personal stories of Palestinians who witnessed the events and...

2014, Andrea Stultiens
Ebifananyi is the title of a series of eight publications by Andrea Stultiens and co-published by Paradox and History In Progress Uganda (HIPUganda). The noun Ebifananyi is derived from the verb Kufanana, and means to be similar to. It’s the Luganda word for photographs, but also for drawings and paintings, placing emphasis on their qualities...

2018, Hans van der Meer
‘Het moet anders’ (time to change) is a sentence photographer Hans van der Meer has heard more than once during his visits to farmers throughout the Netherlands. With his latest book and exhibition Van der Meer shows us the remarkable world of dairy farming. Time to Change offers a fascinating insight into the lives of cows and...

2016, Issa Touma, Floor van der Meulen, Thomas Vroege
Since 2014, photographer Issa Touma travels back to his hometown Aleppo on a regular basis. For more than two years he captured everyday encounters with fellow citizens of Aleppo, a city torn apart by war. Touma returns to clear an unexploded bomb from his parents’ apartment and to visit artist friends whose works he is collecting for...

2016, Émeric Lhuisset
Since men cultivate the land, rivalries over water are a source of disputes. The concept is expressed directly in the English language rivalry from the Latin rivalis, meaning the one who uses the same river as the other. It was around 2600 BC in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) that the first known water war took place....

2016, Issa Touma, Koos Breukel, Juuso Westerlund, Robin de Puy, Ostkreuz Agency
  The war in Syria demolished major parts of the city of Aleppo. Public buildings, apartment blocks and shops are bombed and looted, sometimes leaving personal belongings scattered through the streets. One morning in 2015, Syrian photographer Issa Touma found the remains of a collection of glass plates, negatives and prints from a photo studio...

2016, Olivier van Breugel, Simone Mudde
They are everywhere in Tokyo: security guards at construction sites. Come rain or shine, they are always there. Their perseverance is as absurd as it is admirable. The age of teinen, the Japanese word for retirement, is 62. However, retiring in Japan does not mean the same thing as in Europe. Teinen marks the end...

2015, Melle Smets, Joost van Onna
The car once was a symbol of freedom. Auto makers still want us to believe in that dream. In reality we are addicted to systems that have locked us out completely: we do not even know how to change a tyre anymore. And yet, the majority of the world lives in a Do-It-Yourself environment. Artist...

2016, Nikos Pilos
Since 2009 Greece has been the point of entry and transit for 2 million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. From the beginning of the crisis the country’s fragility was evident, in its economic decline, highly porous borders, poor reception facilities and ineffective asylum framework. Then in 2015 the number of migrants and refugees...

2015, Issa Touma, Floor van der Meulen, Thomas Vroege
On the morning of August 19 2012, Syrian photographer Issa Touma noticed young men from the Free Syrian Army lugging sandbags into his street and building a barricade under the window of his apartment. The civil war had reached the streets of Aleppo. The following nine days, Touma stayed inside with his camera, filming the...

2015, Chris Teerink
In 1872, in an era when photography was still slow and static, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse galloping at full speed. Aspects of time and space were made visible, unfolding a new world for the arts and science, as well as the entertainment industry. Thirteen years and hundreds of obsessive motion studies later, Muybridge...

2015, Issa Touma
Woman We Have Not Lost Yet tells the stories of those who lived through the crisis in Syria. On 26 April 2015, the radical Islamic opposition announced the ‘Great Attack’ on Aleppo. Young people from various ethnicities and religions, former participants of Art Camping, gathered in Le Pont gallery. In this artistic and intellectual safe...

2016, Nikos Pilos
In 2008, when Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and other large American banking institutions struggled to stay afloat, Greeks thought their economy was secure. Their country hadn’t bought any toxic assets, and they comfortably watched the news of the U.S. economic meltdown on television. A year later, the financial crisis hit Europe and Greece was in...

2014, Cause Collective, Antoinette de Jong
On April 5th, 2014, the Afghan people were about to choose a new president in watershed elections that marked a new chapter in their country’s history. Later that year, NATO forces were to end their mission, pack up and leave Afghanistan. Job done after more than a decade of military involvement and reconstruction efforts. But is it as...

2014, Émeric Lhuisset
“As Yanukovych’s government had just fallen, as the president was on the run and the police had disappeared from the streets of Kiev, for a very short time power belonged entirely to the people. It’s that time of latency, when everything seems possible, that I tried to capture in the eyes of the people as...

2014, Reinier Gerritsen
Photographer Reinier Gerritsen became intrigued by the amount of book readers on commuter trains. What are they reading and what is their purpose of reading? He also noticed that the paper book is losing grounds from the digital e-reader. Gerritsen believes that the printed book will have disappeared by 2020. The shift from paper books...

2015, Luuk Kramer, Ringel Goslinga
August 6 2015 was a historic moment for Egypt. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi inaugurated the New Suez Canal; a major expansion that deepens the main waterway and provides ships with a 35km channel parallel to it. Recognising the historical importance, Paradox approached the international consortium that carried out the majority of the job, to commission...

2013, Ad Nuis
“I have taken numerous photos of people peeling potatoes, doing their laundry, mowing their lawn and other daily chores. Wasn’t it time for me to enter the big bad world?” Thus, photographer and geographer Ad Nuis deciced to travel to Baku, Azerbaijan: since 2005 home of the world’s largest oil pipeline. Nuis’ Oil & Paradise...

2014, Robert Knoth, Antoinette de Jong
What began in the early 1990s as a series of news assignments, evolved into a personal project and close collaboration between Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jong. Their journey begins in Afghanistan, tracks through Central Asia, the Balkans, Dubai, Somalia and ends in London. This modern trade route, a dark version of the ancient Silk...

2013, Robert Knoth, Antoinette de Jong, Tim Hetherington, Simon Burke, Ad Nuis, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Seda Muradyan, Dirk-Jan Visser, Arthur Huizinga, Ad van Denderen, Nir Evron, Juul Hondius, Miquel Dewever-Playa, Isabelle Fougère, Kadir van Lohuizen
Points on the Map – The Representation of Conflict in Cultural Space is a group exhibition curated by Bas Vroege. The exhibition is part of the Beijing Photo Biennial 2013, organised by the art museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFAM). Points on the Map deals with the changing geopolitical landscape in the...

2013, Koos Breukel
ME WE was the full text of the improvised poem that Muhammad Ali delivered to a crowd of Harvard students in 1975. It was a text that is believed to express ‘how great it is to be as great as I am’, a tribute to life. Koos Breukel chose it as the title for his...

2013, Kadir van Lohuizen
Why do people migrate? Where to and for what reasons? What is the fate of the different indigenous populations in the Americas? In Via PanAm, Kadir van Lohuizen investigates the roots of migration in the Americas, a phenomenon which is as old as humanity but is increasingly portrayed as a new threat to the Western...

2013, Monica Nouwens
Look At Me is the expressive, poetic portrait of a group of young people living in the margin of urban consumer culture. In cinematographic and suggestive images shot mostly at night, Monica Nouwens follows them at parties, during performances – solitary or loving each other. Nouwens’ images are not records of specific moments in time,...

2012, Hans van der Meer
The Netherlands – Off the shelf by photographer Hans van der Meer is a project about typically Dutch small towns such as Lisse, Raalte, Drunen, Boskoop and Nieuw Vennep. Not metropolises but not villages either, these are places that may appear horribly mediocre to some but to others offer the highest possible quality of life....

2012, Dirk-Jan Visser, Arthur Huizinga
The geopolitical conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region is a forgotten one. Today, the unresolved yet frozen conflict remains a reality for up to hundreds of thousands Azerbaijani and Armenian refugees. In OFFSIDE, photographer Dirk-Jan Visser and writer Arthur Huizinga tell their story from the perspective of two football teams: FK Qarabağ Ağdam and FK...

2011, Koen Wessing
Koen Wessing’s Indelible Images is a multi-platform project that shows Wessing’s coverage of the 1973 military coup in Chile and more of his Latin American work from the 1970s. The project is a collaboration between Dutch photographer Wessing, filmmaker Kees Hin, curator/designer Jeroen de Vries and Paradox. Koen Wessing, a legend in the history of Dutch...

2011, Annette Behrens, Nisrine Boukhari, Mohamed Bourouissa, Daya Cahen, Yvon Chabrowski, Ad van Denderen, Rineke Dijkstra, Willie Doherty, Eva Frapiccini, Jasper Groen, Johan Grimonprez, Susan van Hengstum, Runo Lagomarsino, Johan Tirén, Eva Leitolf, Aernout Mik, Miko Martin, Monica Nouwens, Corinne Englert, Isabel Morgen, Cora Piantoni, Sarah Pickering, Adriaan van der Ploeg, Astrid Proll, Julian Röder, Allan Sekula, Jules Spinatsch, Joel Sternfeld, Ari Versluis, Ellie Uyttenbroek, Yumosh, Tobias Zielony
Radicalisation has been a hot topic since 9/11 and radicalism is regarded as negative by definition. But born out of idealism, isn’t it often also a force for social change? Who is radical and who decides? Has there really been an increase in radical behaviour among young people in our current society or is it...

2010, Ed van der Elsken
In the last years of his life Ed van der Elsken worked on what should have been his audiovisual magnum opus: Tokyo Symphony. The installation was meant to be his homage to Japan – a land that had embraced him personally as well as as a photographer and author. The installation was never finished due...

2009, Chen Xiao, Jin Jiangbo, Mo Yi, Song Chao, Xiong Wenyun, Zhao Liang, Zeng Han, Jacqueline Hassink, Theo Niekus, WassinkLundgren, Henk Wildschut, Frank van der Salm, Gerald van der Kaap, Ad van Denderen
WATW is short for We Are The World. The song (written by Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson) was originally written for a 1985 campaign against famine in Ethiopia, later hijacked for a multitude of other purposes, focusing on issues of solidarity as well as mutual responsibility. In the framework of this 2009/2010 travelling exhibition, a...

2009, Theo Niekus
In his project Spectator, photographer Theo Niekus focuses on the street life in Amsterdam’s consumer centre. The area, roughly between Central Station, Rembrandt Square and Leidse Square, is a place where tourists and locals mix in what often looks like a desperate attempt to shop for anything edible and to be entertained by the act of...

2009, Stephen J. Bell, Taco Hidde Bakker, Julian Germain, Florian Schwarz, Tim Hetherington, Susan Meiselas, Wouter den Bakker, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Andrea Stultiens, Vojta Dukát, Ales Vasicek, Jiang Jian
For the 2009 Noorderlicht Fotofestival in Groningen, The Netherlands, entitled Human Conditions, Bas Vroege was invited to curate an exhibition. The resulting Multivocal Histories shows selected examples from a current in documentary photography in which the photographer not only uses his or her own work, but also draws on other sources including texts and images...

2009, Ad van Denderen
Occupation: Soldier is a documentary on the Dutch armed forces. Since the end of the Cold War in 1990 and the expected conclusion of the Uruzgan mission in 2010, almost 90,000 Dutch soldiers have been involved in peacekeeping operations. What do we remember of them, what remains in our collective visual memory? Precious little. Peacekeeping...

2008, Andrea Stultiens, Semâ Bekirovic, L. A. Raeven, Hella Jongerius, Geer Roobeek, Driessen & Verstappen, Jurgen Bey, Ralph Kämena, Jan Konings, Peter Verdonk, Gerco de Ruijter, Hans van der Meer, Xavier Ribas, Leon Hendrickx, Thomas Kaan, Siebe Swart, Raimond Wouda, Luuk Kramer, Edwin Zwakman, MVRDV, Fons Brasser, Han Singels, Gé-Karel van der Sterren, Irene Fortuyn
The information on this page will be expanded soon. The landscape of North Holland is often perceived as natural. But the truth is – it is as artificial as it gets. Entirely manmade, it is an important part of our cultural heritage. Moreover, this cultural construct, largely shaped by agriculture, can be considered a monument....

2007, Anastasia Khoroshilova
In 1697 the Russian czar Peter the Great, 25 years old at the time, visited The Netherlands. He worked at a number of shipyards in and around Amsterdam in order to learn about modern shipbuilding. In 2007, Khoroshilova tried to retrieve the atmosphere and working conditions the czar must have experienced. She portrayed the people working...

2008, Ad van Denderen
While working on his project Go No Go, about migration in Europe, Van Denderen experienced the idiosyncratic effect social-economic developments have had in the Mediterranean landscape. On the south coast of Spain he photographed a group of a hundred illegal immigrants landing on the beach with rubber boats. Soaked to the skin, they ran off...

2007, Xavier Ribas
Greenhouse is an installation about the history of the Wieringermeer, a polder drained in the 1930s now developing a new future as the location for a gigantic greenhouse complex. The project focuses on the building site of a greenhouse the corporation Agriport is building by the A7 highway, near Medemblik, some 60 kms North of...

2008, Dana Lixenberg, Jan Louter
As a result of global warming Shishmaref, a small island on the west coast of Alaska slightly south of the polar circle, inhabited by 600 Inupiaq, will crumble into the ocean in less then ten years time. Fourteen houses have been moved to safer ground already, another six are jeopardized by the violent waves of...

2006, Oscar van Alphen
In The Wars, photographer Oscar van Alphen combines an adapted version of Georges Bataille’s text Madame Edwarda with images drawn from his archive. Madame Edwarda (published in 1941 under the pseudonym Pierre Angélique) is a story without beginning or end, in which a a male first-person narrator and a prostitute encounter each other in Paris...

2006, Hans van der Meer
The European Fields project (subtitled: The Landscape of Lower League Football) is a collection of photographs and film material that pays much more attention to the space in which the matches take place than the majority of contemporary sports photographers do. Since the mid-1990s, frequently awarded Dutch photographer and film maker Hans van der Meer...

2004, Geert van Kesteren
Just a week after the war ended in April, 2003, Dutch photojournalist Geert van Kesteren travelled to Baghdad. Assigned by UNICEF, Newsweek and Stern, he would report from Iraq for almost seven months, working as an embedded journalist for seven weeks, a position about which he initially had had strong doubts. But there was no...

2003, Ad van Denderen
Over the past twelve years Ad van Denderen photographed migrants and refugees who were under way to the rich West. He stayed for weeks in squalid pensions in Istanbul, where Pakistanis wait for the human traffickers who will bring them to Greece. He joined police patrols along the border between Greece and Turkey, where it...

2004, Kate Mellor, Stephen Hughes, Clare Strand, Helen Sear, Phil Collins, Shahidul Alam, David Chandler, Stein and Issa, Orri, Rob Hornstra, Thomas Neumann, Renja Leino, Arturas Valiauga, Tim Strangleman, Ulrich Gebert, Luigi Gariglio, Tomoko Yoneda, Vincent Debanne, Tuomo Manninen, Xavier Ribas, Alexandra Moschovi, Helen Westgeest, Kimmo Lehtonen, Mirelle Thijsen, Arabella Plouviez, Andrej Balco, Eija Keskinen, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Nontsikelelo Veleko, Andre Vieira, Ralph Kämena
The information on this page will be expanded soon. The International Photography Research Network is an organisation of collaborating institutions dealing with photography, varying from museums to art schools and universities. IPRN was established in 2004 as an initiative of the University of Sunderland (UK) with founding partners in Germany (Museum Folkswang and University of...

2003, Marjoleine Boonstra
The information on this page will be expanded soon. Britanya was shot early in 2003 in Sangatte, the North French coastal town near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel. The controversial refugee centre there closed its doors December 2, 2002. In Britanya the now shelterless refugees have their chance to speak. As in her previous,...

2003, Abbas, Chantal Akerman, Alias Voliaers / Zwart, Herman Asselberghs, Peter Badge, Oliver Boberg, Sabrina Bongiovanni, Dirk Braeckman, Suzanne Brugger, Andrey Chezin, David Claerbout, Claude Closky, Arne Coenen, Jan Daemen Cool, Do, Rineke Dijkstra, Ruud van Empel, FAT, Zwijndrecht Fotoclub, Gil & Moti, Jan Mattheus de Grauw, Andreas Gursky, Rob 't Hart, Joost van Hezewijk, Rob Johannesma, Gerald van der Kaap, Ralph Kämena, KesselsKramer, Irmel Kamp, Osamu Kanemura, Tara Karpinski, Paul Ketelaar, Richard Korteland, Ewoud de Kroon, Florian Lantou, Diana van der Ley, Han Goan Lim, Mireya Masó, Bruce Mau, Laurent Moriceau, Geert Mul, Michiel van Musscher, MVRDV, Marcel van Nieuwenhuijsen, Dionys van Nijmegen, Will Oldham, Willem van Ophem, Els Opsomer, Ron Pansen, Bas Princen, Alejandra Riera, Fred Rohde, Stefan Romer, Fred Ros, Igor Savchenko, Henrik Saxgren, Joachim Schmid, Erfrat Shviily, Otto Snoek, Chantal Spieard, Anoek Steketee, Jan Stoker, Thomas Struth, Francis Summers, Maflan Teeuwen, Nienke Terpsma, Anders Thoren, Sofie Thorsen, Peter Tscherkassky, Pieter Vandemeer, Bill Viola, Rony Vissers, Heidi Vogels, Abraham de Vries, Markus Weisbeck, Adriaan van der Werff, Erik Wesselo, Johann Zambryski
The information on this page will be expanded soon. We need to process a growing amount of images and media messages every single day: from news, advertisements and art to everything in between. In order to digest, our brains need to distinguish the personal relevance at an increasing pace and frequency. This mental filter, which...

2002, Diana Blok
“Ay Dios” (literally, “Oh, God”) is a characteristic lament of Antilleans. In the combination of the meaning of the words and the way in which they are spoken resides an impalpable but also specific form of resignation, the realisation of not being able to determine (or at least fully determine) one’s own fate. It is...

2001, Carel van Hees
Powerlessness, vitality, love, aggression, expression… >Play is about what it is like to be young, anywhere and in all eras. For three years the Rotterdam photographer Carel van Hees turned his camera on the youth of Rotterdam. He focused on their character, their aura and energy. His intense black and white photography is rooted in...

2001, Bertien van Manen
Fascinated by the cultural changes in contemporary China, Bertien van Manen travelled to China fourteen times between July, 1997, and May, 2000. In her characteristically subtle and sensitive manner, Bertien van Manen produced a personal reportage on China as she saw it: a world of contradictions, a mingling of urban and rural culture, against a...

2001, Luuk Kramer, Siebe Swart, Saskia Janssen, George Korsmit, Korrie Besems
What does life look like in the XXI Dutch VINEX district? In the postwar urban developments the city of Purmerend, served is a model for many Dutch municipalities. Five photographers were commissioned by the Museum Waterland to create works that explores the actual and personal image of this urban growth phenomenon. In 1950s Purmerend had...

2000, Hans van der Meer
Many football associations were established in The Netherlands just after the war. In the small towns a farmer made available a pasture on which they could play. That is, they could play on the weekend, because through the week it was used by cows, pigs or sheep. Instead of the dynamics, action and drama of...

2000, Hans Aarsman, Hans van der Meer, Ellie Uyttenbroek, Ari Versluis, Wang Yue, Chi Yujie, Gong Dapeng, Zhao Jinjiu
“Stadsfietsen” provides playful insights into daily life in two cosmopolitan cities, Amsterdam and Beijing. The perspective for this introduction is the bicycle. In both places a much-loved, much used and often abused mode of transport. Modern Amsterdam is brought into focus by three Chinese photographers, while a quartet of Dutch photographers highlights modern Beijing. The...

1998, Janine Antoni, Jemima Brown, Hamish Buchanan, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Susan Collins, Luc Courchesne, Deborah Hammond, Lynn Herschman, Merel Mirage, Tony Oursler, Ine Poppe, Jetty Verhoeff, David Rasmus, Humberto Rivas, Cindy Sherman, Debra Solomon, Annie Sprinkle, Vibeke Tandberg, Bea de Visser
Choosing another identity is not a new phenomenon. Everybody makes use of a different personality, or sub-personality, on some occasions, sometimes consciously, sometimes without noticing it, as when you pick up the telephone, or when you decide in front of the mirror in the morning what clothes to put on, taking the day’s schedule into...

1996, Ed van der Elsken
Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was a unique figure in Dutch photography. Seen internationally, he was at the top of his genre of street photography. His photography bears an affinity with the ‘decisive moments’ of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with William Klein’s probing shots and with the suggestiveness of Robert Frank. The exhibition examines the relationship between...

1995, Shimon Attie
For this 1995 project staged in Amsterdam, Shimon Attie mounted projectors in the windows of homes that sheltered Jews during the war, and projected onto the street below archival footage of German soldiers, passing funerals and military bands. The project is only visible in the current exhibition through slits in a wall. “It puts you...