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Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert (b. 1953) stands out among actresses for her audacious choices of roles, both in film and theater. Her popularity both onscreen and off has inspired many of the great directors as well as photographers of our time, including Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank, Leonard Freed, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton and...

Contemporary Australian Photography

The Hague Museum of Photography is one of the main guest locations for this year’s tenth Hague open-air sculpture exhibition: DE OVERKANT / DOWN UNDER. The museum is presenting work by three leading Australian photographers: Tracey Moffat, Anne Zahalka and Bill Henson. Also on show are video works by three other Australian artists: Shaun Gladwell and Patricia Piccinini.

Koos Breukel

In the course of his career, Koos Breukel (b. The Hague, 1962) has produced portraits of dozens of his fellow photographers, in recognition of them as kindred spirits, sources of inspiration or friends. In this exhibition, Breukel will present a selection of around 55 of these portraits, each paired with a single item from the oeuvre of the photographer depicted. The resulting show will convey a...

Leonard Freed

In this exhibition, the most comprehensive ever of the work of Leonard Freed (1929 – 2006), the viewer is immediately struck by the versatility of this committed photographer. On the one hand he was preoccupied by themes like war, revolution, misery and poverty, while on the other he seemed drawn to a completely different side of life: day-to-day issues like friendship, love and the mystery of...

Silver Camera 2007

The winners of the 59th Silver Camera photography competition will be announced at an award ceremony to be held on 20 January 2008 at the Hague Museum of Photography. The Silver Camera is the leading prize for press photographers in the Netherlands. The contest for the best news photo of 2007 is open to all Dutch press photographers and to foreign photographers working in the Netherlands. The...

Van Zoetendaal Collections

Late in 2006 the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag acquired a major collection of photographs compiled by Amsterdam gallery owner and publisher Willem van Zoetendaal. The museum’s photo-collection was expanded at a stroke by more than 1000 items, including not only early and previously unknown work by modern photographers of the calibre of Rineke Dijkstra, Koos Breukel, Blommers & Schumm, Hellen van Meene...

‘A wonderful accident’

With Nikon Nederland as a new patron this year, the future of the Dutch Association of Insurers Photography Prize competition is twice as secure. Thanks in part to this new support from Nikon, there is now more prize money and the competition is open to more contestants. The presentation of the prizes by a prominent jury and the celebratory opening of the accompanying exhibition are scheduled to...

Yuri Rost

In today’s Russia, many people see photographer and journalist Yuri Rost (b. Kiev, 1939) as the embodiment of the dissident press of the 1970s and ’80s that helped to bring about the collapse of the totalitarian Soviet regime in 1991. As a critical columnist and commentator for the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily paper and other publications, and also as the presenter of his own current affairs...

Michael Najjar

German artist Michael Najjar is fascinated by scenarios for the future of mankind. In his large-format photographs and video works, he creates a simultaneously exciting and disturbing picture of human beings as artificial, technological beings. In his newest series, bionic angel (2006-2008), now to be shown at the GEM / Hague Museum of Photography for the first time in its entirety, Najjar goes a...

MC1R – Natural Redheads

Hanne van der Woude’s (b. 1982) exhibition MC1R – Natural Redheads focuses on the aesthetic attractions of people with red hair, but also reveals their vulnerability. When Van der Woude read in a newspaper report that red hair might be dying out in the population, her existing admiration developed into something approaching an obsession.