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Ukrainian Diary
Ukrainian Diary (1965-2019) is the largest retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands devoted to the Ukrainian photographer and artist Boris Mikhailov (1938). Since the 1960s, Mikhailov has been one of the few artists to create a compelling picture of the tumultuous changes in his country. He deliberately employs ‘bad photography’ – the conscious avoidance of perfection in...
Boris Mikhailov
Ukrainian Diary 30 March - 18 August 2024 Ukrainian Diary is the largest retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands devoted to the Ukrainian photographer and artist Boris Mikhailov (1938). Since the 1960s, Mikhailov has been one of the few artists to create a compelling picture of the tumultuous changes in his country. He deliberately employs ‘bad photography’ – the conscious avoidance of...
Lobby - Between Green Deals and Ideals
LOBBY – Between Green Deals and Ideals is a photographic research project by Suzanne Schols, once a lobbyist and now a photographer, that aims to increase the visibility and transparency of the world of lobbying. She has focused specifically on the Brussels climate lobby and has contacted a large number of organisations that wanted to influence the European Green Deal, for which Frans Timmermans...
A Poet Photographer
To mark the centenary of the birth of the versatile artist Lucebert (1924 – 1994), in 2024 the Fotomuseum Den Haag is hosting an intimate exhibition that highlights his photography. Lucebert is best known as a painter and poet. That he was also a fanatical photographer for a brief period is less well known. Unlike many photographers of his time who used photography to represent reality, Lucebert...
Curator’s tour
Women on the Frontline Saturday, August 19th 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Photographers in the Netherlands 1852-2002
The opening exhibition at the new Hague Museum of Photography addresses nothing less than the entire history of photography in the Netherlands. Following the appearance of a Dutch-language book of the same name edited by Wim van Sinderen, the museum presents work by 226 photographers from the earliest days of the medium right through to the present. The book discusses the photographers in...
Activities
Talks on War Photography Today among others Susan Meiselas & Carolyn Cole
Mortalis
Photographs of the dead have existed since the very earliest days of photography. This exhibition reflects the theme of this year’s Dutch Book Week, ‘Life and death in literature’ and examines images of death in photography on the basis of three types of material: examples of nineteenth and twentieth-century funerary portrait photography, photographs of deceased celebrities like Marilyn Monroe...
Fault Line
Over the next few years, Hague-based photographers Jakob Ganslmeier (Germany, 1990) and Ana Zibelnik (SIovenia, 1995) will be working on Fault Line, a project about the impact of the climate crisis on Southern Europe. In the first part of the project shown here, the photographers focus on climate anxiety. This psychological phenomenon is especially prevalent among young people, who are...