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Martin Eder

We live in a world of desires and are tricked out of our actual hunger for it with dummies. -Martin Eder. Provocative, almost kitschy paintings of baby animals and prototype females with perfect curves – that’s how we first saw Martin Eder’s work, in the 2007 group Netherlands / Germany - Painting / Malerei. Now, in his first ever solo exhibition in any Dutch museum, he reveals a completely...

Erwin Olaf

With their averted eyes half open, staring into nothingness, the models in the photographs in Erwin Olaf’s latest series, Fall, evoke a strange kind of aloofness. The portraits are interspersed with still lifes of plants and flowers in simple ceramic vases. With its use of colour, the strange, almost awkward expressions on the faces of the models and the almost unreal setting, the series Fall is...

Silver Camera 2008

The first Silver Camera contest was run in 1949 by the Dutch Association of Press Photographers (NVF). The competition was intended to enhance the quality of work by the association’s own members. In 1955 the Silver Camera contest engendered an international version of itself: the World Press Photo competition.

Man Ray

Man Ray (1890-1976) used his camera to turn photography into an art – no mean feat for a man who tried almost all his life to avoid being described as a ‘photographer’. He preferred to be identified with his work in other media: drawings, paintings and Dadaist ready-mades. The exhibition entitled Unconcerned, but not indifferent at the Hague Museum of Photography is a large-scale retrospective of...

FABULOUS FICTIONS

Both Paolo Ventura and Jasper de Beijer play with reality in their photographs. After all, a photograph shows what is seen through the lens. However, what if that is not actually reality, but a specially constructed version of reality? In his series War Souvenir and Winter Stories Ventura photographed events that he himself had never witnessed, bringing them to life with miniatures, scale models...

The Photo Academy Award 2009

A record number of competitors submitted photos for this year’s Photo Academy Award 2009, which will be presented at The Hague Museum of Photography on 11 September. With two-and-a-half times as many entries as last year, this year’s competition has been a great success. No fewer than 175 students submitted a total of over 2000 photos. The Photo Academy Award is a prize for talented photographers...

Sally Mann

Document Nederland: Fighters and Peacekeepers

For a whole year, photographer Ad van Denderen lived and breathed the Dutch military. He photographed new recruits, the training they underwent and life on Dutch army bases. But he also took pictures of the army on its mission to Afghanistan and of those who stayed at home. Twenty years after the reunification of Germany, the Dutch military is constantly in the news and that made it a perfect...

Photography! A Special Collection from the University of Leiden

The first image produced using the camera obscura principle (1545), the original camera belonging to painter George Hendrik Breitner, daguerreotypes over 150 years old: the University of Leiden’s photographic collection is unique in many ways. It is both the oldest and the largest museum photography collection in the country, telling the whole story of the emergence and development of photography...

Silver Camera 2009

About to be awarded for the 61st time, the Silver Camera award is the foremost prize for press photographers in the Netherlands. The winner of the prize for the best news photo of 2009 is to be announced on Sunday 24 January at the Hague Museum of Photography. The award ceremony will also include the first ever presentation of the brand-new prize for Dutch Photo-Reportage of the Year and the award...