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Kings of a Bereft Land

As a resident of Kolkata, Indian photographer Arko Datto feels the threat of climate change every day. In the nearby Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, the ground is literally disappearing beneath the inhabitants’ feet. Their houses are being carried away by the sea, which is claiming more and more land. In his series Where Do We Go When the Final Wave Hits and Terra Mutata, Datto depicts the daily...

Arko Datto

Kings of a Bereft Land 14 Jan - 21 May 2023 As a resident of Kolkata, Indian photographer Arko Datto feels the threat of climate change every day. In the nearby Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, the ground is literally disappearing beneath the inhabitants’ feet. Their houses are being carried away by the sea, which is claiming more and more land. In his series Where Do We Go When the Final Wave...

Strike a Pose

Mondrian and Photography 14 Jan - 21 May 2023 Piet Mondrian was keenly aware that photography is a powerful means of presenting yourself. It is striking that, in the numerous professional photographs taken of him throughout his career, he always seems to be posing. For example, he was once photographed in his studio in Amsterdam in a pensive pose, sitting on his bed, reading a book. In this...

Mondrian and Photography

Piet Mondrian was aware from the outset that photography is a powerful means of representing yourself. Throughout his career, ‘the father of abstraction’ regularly had himself photographed in his studio as an intellectual loner. The fact that Mondrian also had a much more laid-back and more social side is evident from snapshots of his private life that have emerged through research into the artist...

In love, Bored & Overslept

The exhibition School - In Love, Bored & Overslept is a photographic journey through 150 years of education and a trip down memory lane back to everyone’s own school days. To zoom in on what makes this period of our lives so unforgettable, this exhibition brings together 150 years of photographs of schools. Despite criticism of the state of Dutch education, the photographs in the exhibition mostly...

Koos Breukel

Koos Breukel is among the best-known Dutch portrait photographers. He photographs everyone from children and students to writers, yachtsmen and transsexuals. This year he created the first official portrait photographs of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. In this forthcoming retrospective, Me We – The Circle of Life, he will tell a universal but at the same time highly...

School

8 APRIL T/M 6 AUGUST 2023 The exhibition School: In Love, Bored & Overslept is a photographic journey through 150 years of education and a trip down memory lane back to everyone’s own school days. To zoom in on what makes this period of our lives so unforgettable, this exhibition brings together 150 years of photographs of schools. Despite criticism of the state of Dutch education, the photographs...

Life Along the Long Wall

Photographer Xiaoxiao Xu’s journey along the Great Wall of China has resulted in two projects: Shooting the Tiger (2014) and Watering My Horse by a Spring at the Foot of the Long Wall (2017-2018). The 25,000 km road trip was part of Xu’s exploration of the country of her birth. Her compassion for the people she met around the wall and the stories she tells about them reveal a part of Chinese...

Xiaoxiao Xu

27 MEI T/M 22 OKTOBER 2023 Photographer Xiaoxiao Xu’s journey along the Great Wall of China has resulted in two projects: Shooting the Tiger (2014) and Watering My Horse by a Spring at the Foot of the Long Wall (2017-2018). The 25,000 km road trip was part of Xu’s exploration of the country of her birth. Her compassion for the people she met around the wall and the stories she tells about them...

Speaking of Photography

Simon Ophof collected photographs for much of his life. In January 2022, just before he died, he donated his photography collection to the Fotomuseum Den Haag (part of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag). This gift contains more than 800 prints, varying from anonymous 19th-century photographs to works by the most famous photographers past and present.

To celebrate this gift, Fotomuseum...