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Rein Jelle Terpstra

Dark Dunes 20 August2022 - 8 January 2023 Can photography conceal the real world? Rein Jelle Terpstra asked himself this question when he stumbled upon an old collection of negatives featuring landscapes, tulips, country lanes and Dutch skies. At first glance, they are photogenic compositions like the ones we see in paintings, but the date and place which the anonymous amateur photographer...

Parents

In the exhibition Parents , this summer the Fotomuseum Den Haag brings together works by more than thirty artists who have portrayed their mothers and fathers in a remarkable fashion. The selection of works shows that the relationship between parent and child is both universal and extremely personal and intimate. Through their work, the photographers provide an insight into their varied...

Homage to Paul Blanca

Following an eventful life, the Dutch photographer Paul Blanca died in October 2021 in Amsterdam, where he was born in 1958 as Paul Vlaswinkel. A photographer who achieved fame in the 1980s for provocative self-portraits and was mentioned in the same breath as Erwin Olaf and Robert Mapplethorpe. A photograph of Mickey Mouse carved into his back (1986) is considered one of the icons of Dutch...

Robert Knoth en Antoinette de Jong

TREE AND SOIL 19 March - 14 August 2022 Please note: changed traffic conditions at the museum Dutch artistic duo Robert Knoth (b. 1963) and Antoinette de Jong (1964) made several trips to Fukushima in Japan shortly after a tsunami had caused a nuclear disaster there on 11 March 2011. They wanted to see with their own eyes what impact this event had had on the region and talk to people who lived...