Civilians up in Arms

Émeric Lhuisset In March 2022, Émeric Lhuisset portrayed 100 Ukrainian civilians who had taken up the arms to fight for their country. Their faces are hidden for now to protect them. Their portraits will be revealed on the day Ukraine regains its full sovereignty, the day the resistance has won. All portrayed answered two questions: - What would you like to see happening now? - What do you think will happen?

Exhibition Kit

Moria is the largest refugee camp in Europe, situated on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Since its beginning in 2015, the living conditions in the camp have become inhumane, in part due to its extreme overpopulation. Moria was designed to accommodate 3000 people yet housed up 20,000 at its peak last summer. In September 2020...

Action Book

Moria is the largest refugee camp in Europe, situated on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Since its beginning in 2015, the living conditions in the camp have become inhumane, in part due to its extreme overpopulation. Moria was designed to accommodate 3000 people yet housed up 20,000 at its peak last summer. In September 2020...

Imagining The Global City (cover #1)

Frank van der Salm NOWHERE - Imagining The Global City collects photographer Frank van der Salm’s work of the past 25 years. The image of a consumer-oriented, imaginary metropolis rises from this book, designed by Irma Boom. Images – sometimes upside down – question each other about the reality they represent. Together, they form the image of a city that, all of a sudden, seems to be simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, yet: here now.

Imagining The Global City (cover #2)

Frank van der Salm NOWHERE - Imagining The Global City collects photographer Frank van der Salm’s work of the past 25 years. The image of a consumer-oriented, imaginary metropolis rises from this book, designed by Irma Boom. Images – sometimes upside down – question each other about the reality they represent. Together, they form the image of a city that, all of a sudden, seems to be simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, yet: here now.

Imagining The Global City (cover #3)

Frank van der Salm NOWHERE - Imagining The Global City collects photographer Frank van der Salm’s work of the past 25 years. The image of a consumer-oriented, imaginary metropolis rises from this book, designed by Irma Boom. Images – sometimes upside down – question each other about the reality they represent. Together, they form the image of a city that, all of a sudden, seems to be simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, yet: here now.

Revisiting South Africa

Ad van Denderen, Lebohang Tlali, Margalith Kleijwegt Welkom Today is characterized by a multitude of voices, perspectives and image sources. The book narrates the story of Welkom and Thabong’s communities, against the backdrop of South Africa’s socio-political history and current reality.

Terug naar Zuid-Afrika

Ad van Denderen, Lebohang Tlali, Margalith Kleijwegt Welkom Today is characterized by a multitude of voices, perspectives and image sources. The book narrates the story of Welkom and Thabong’s communities, against the backdrop of South Africa’s socio-political history and current reality.

De veranderende wereld van de Nederlandse koe | The Changing World of The Dutch Cow

Hans van der Meer The gap between the consumer and the world of the cow has been growing over the past few decades. Hans van der Meer lives in the centre of Amsterdam, but when his farmer friend Jaap Hemke goes on holiday, Hans looks after the farm. He has been doing this for nearly twenty years, stimulating a deep interest and a particular insight into dairy farming.

Émeric Lhuisset With a series of photographs taken in Iraq on the archaeological site of Girsu, the artist Emeric Lhuisset is aiming to question us about a future through the ruin, this architectural object sculpted by time, at crossroads between past, present and future, and intangible evidence of the ephemeral and fragile nature of all human civilization.

(complete series)

Andrea Stultiens The complete Ebifananyi series, I – VIII are part of Andrea Stultiens’ long-term research project on the concept of ‘ebifananyi’, which means ‘likenesses’ in Luganda. In each book, she takes a certain Ugandan photographic collection as a starting point for a visual investigation based on close collaboration with other people, photographers and images.

Ekifananyi Kya Muteesa, The King Pictured, by many

Andrea Stultiens Ekifananyi Kya Muteesa presents a collective visual research into the social and cultural biography of the first photographic portrait made of a king in Buganda. The photograph was made by explorer Henry Morton Stanley in 1875 and was barely known in Uganda when Andrea Stultiens started this research. Interpretations of this picture are known and in use in the country.

Staying Alive, documenting the Uganda Cancer Institute

Andrea Stultiens Staying Alive considers photographs that were a tool in medical practices and research, and the documentation of the history of the Uganda Cancer Institute. It gives an insight into the past of the institute and asks questions concerning the ethics around medical photographs and depictions of patients.

Joana Choumali, Marijn Heemskerk BITTER Chocolate Stories addresses the harsh realism of child labour in cocoa plantations in an unconventional manner. Children who have escaped from forced labour were portrayed in a pop-up studio by one of the most talented African photographers, Joana Choumali from Ivory Coast.

Joana Choumali, Marijn Heemskerk BITTER Chocolate Stories addresses the harsh realism of child labour in cocoa plantations in an unconventional manner. Children who have escaped from forced labour were portrayed in a pop-up studio by one of the most talented African photographers, Joana Choumali from Ivory Coast.

Duc in Altum, Dive into The Deep, St. Mary's College Kisubi

Andrea Stultiens Duc in Altum, Dive into the Deep is based on a set of negatives found in the archive room of the Brothers of Christian Instruction in Kisubi. Since 1926 this religious order has been in charge of St. Mary’s College Kisubi (anno 1906), a prestigious bourding school for boys.

Picha V: Uhuru - Minor accidents - Eng. M.W. Wambwa

Andrea Stultiens Uhuru is the Swahili word for independence. The protectorate Uganda gained its independence from the British Empire in 1962. The book presents a selection of colour slides made by ENG. M.W. Wambwa and fragments from his autobiography.

Issa Touma On April 26th 2015, when radical Islamist opposition forces announced the ‘Great Attack’ on Aleppo, young women of various ethnicities and religious backgrounds sought refuge in Le Pont gallery.

Melle Smets, Joost van Onna This car is not the product of a multinational company which develops software to hide its true emissions. Nor was it designed by lifestyle gurus, its futuristic looks intended to seduce customers – who no longer know how to change a tyre.

Simuda Nyuma – Forward Ever Backward Never

Andrea Stultiens Simuda Nyuma is the title of a trilogy written during the 1930s by Ham Mukasa (1870-1956), who was an important chief of Buganda – the kingdom in south-central Uganda (and the country’s name giver).

Luuk Kramer, Ringel Goslinga The Suez Canal is one of the most heavily used shipping lanes, which connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea through Egypt.

Luuk Kramer, Ringel Goslinga The Suez Canal is one of the most heavily used shipping lanes, which connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea through Egypt.

All the Tricks - Elly Rwakoma

Andrea Stultiens All the Tricks presents pictures made by Elly Rwakoma (ca. 1938). In addition he tells the reader how he became interested in photography, and how events related to photography had an impact on his life.

Émeric Lhuisset

Émeric Lhuisset

Reinier Gerritsen In his book Wall Street Stop photographer Reinier Gerritsen shows his fascination with the myriad of faces and bodies in the confined space of subway trains.

People Poses Places – Musa Katuramu

Andrea Stultiens In People Poses Places Stultiens focusses on teacher, carpenter and cattle keeper Musa Katuramu (1916-1983). From the late 1930s he started to make portraits of family and friends with a simple box camera, using the Western Ugandan landscape as a backdrop.

Trails of Afghan Heroin

Antoinette de Jong, Robert Knoth The Silk Road has linked the East and the West from time immemorial.

The Photographer - Deo Kyakulagira

Andrea Stultiens Deo Kyakulagira (1940-2000) lived for his family and photography. He operated several studios from the early 1970s until his untimely death in 2000.

The Circle of Life

Koos Breukel, Erwin Mortier, Hedy van Erp Me We is Koos Breukel's magnum opus so far: a book and an exhibition bringing together pictures from the first 30 years of his career, including a lot of never-before-seen photographs.

The Pursuit of Happiness

Kadir van Lohuizen In Via PanAm, Kadir van Lohuizen investigates the roots of migration in the Americas.

The Pursuit of Happiness

Kadir van Lohuizen In Via PanAm, Kadir van Lohuizen investigates the roots of migration in the Americas.

Hans van der Meer In The Netherlands – Off the shelf, Hans van der Meer brings together his own photography and his fascination for vernacular photography (he is co-founder of Useful Photography magazine) for the first time. By including catalogue images of street furniture, he casts a different light on the Netherlands. It suddenly becomes clear where the familiarity and interchangeability come from.

Hans van der Meer In The Netherlands – Off the shelf, Hans van der Meer brings together his own photography and his fascination for vernacular photography (he is co-founder of Useful Photography magazine) for the first time. By including catalogue images of street furniture, he casts a different light on the Netherlands. It suddenly becomes clear where the familiarity and interchangeability come from.

Football in Exile

Arthur Huizinga, Dirk-Jan Visser

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. In the framework of this 2009/2010 travelling exhibition, a collaboration between the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, CN) and Paradox (Edam, NL), the project is referring to the latter notion: common responsibility for the highly complex, culturally, economically and socially interrelated world we are living in.

Ad van Denderen, Arnon Grunberg 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.

Dana Lixenberg

Dana Lixenberg Dana Lixenberg stayed in Shishmaref for several weeks during the 2007 winter and summer, exploring the intricate relationship between the inhabitants and the rough, bleak and beautiful landscape that surrounds them.

Xavier Ribas Greenhouse is an installation about the history of the Greenhouse e Wieringermeer, a polder drained in the 1930s now developing a new future as the location for a gigantic greenhouse complex.

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...

The Frontiers of Europe

Ad van Denderen Go No Go is photographer Ad van Denderen's acclaimed project on contemporary migration and European border politics.

A Photographic Record

Carel van Hees Powerlessness, vitality, love, aggression, expression… >Play is about what it is like to be young.

Hans van der Meer Flemish Fields is the video equivalent to the highly successful book . With a mild irony, Van der Meer shows us the mismatch between human ambition and the effective result, between an individual’s ‘inside’ perception and a more objective, distanced view of our behaviour.

Beeld van een groeistad

Pauline Terreehorst, Maartje van den Heuvel What does life look like in the XXI century Dutch new town? In the postwar urban developments the city of Purmerend, served is a model for many Dutch municipalities.