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Dark Dunes

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 carefully noted in the margins of each...

Judith Joy Ross

Portraits of America 26 November 2022 - 26 March 2023 This autumn, Fotomuseum Den Haag presents the largest survey to date of Judith Joy Ross (born 1946), regarded as one of the greatest portrait photographers in America. The exhibition features a selection of more than 150 prints, drawn from the photographer’s archive of work over the past fifty years. Ross’s portraits are characterised by soft...

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...

Portraits of America

This autumn, Fotomuseum Den Haag presents the largest survey to date of Judith Joy Ross (born 1946), regarded as one of the greatest portrait photographers in America. The exhibition features a selection of more than 150 prints, drawn from the photographer’s archive of work over the past fifty years. Ross’s portraits are characterised by soft tones of brown, purple, and grey, shallow depth of...

W.F. Hermans

Rather important photos 20 August 2022 - 8 January 2023 With literary titles such as The blind photographer and The darkroom of Damocles , it is no secret that the writer Willem Frederik Hermans (1921–1995) was passionate about photography. A less well known fact, however, is that he considered retraining as a photographer. To conclude the Hermans anniversary year , celebrating the centenary of...

Rather important photos

With literary titles such as The blind photographer and The darkroom of Damocles, it is no secret that the writer Willem Frederik Hermans (1921–1995) was passionate about photography. A less well known fact, however, is that he considered retraining as a photographer.
To conclude the Hermans anniversary year, celebrating the centenary of the writer’s birth, Fotomuseum Den Haag presents an...

Whatever the Weather

In 2018, for a work entitled Whatever the Weather, artist Bruno van den Elshout (1979) from The Hague took no fewer than 145 walks along the beach of The Hague within the period of one year. Each walk took a full eight-hour working day, and each was held in the company of a different person who had signed up for this unique art project.

The basic idea was to create a “genuine encounter”, paying...

Iris Sikking appointed new curator at the Fotomuseum Den Haag

The appointment of Iris Sikking enriches the team of curators at the Fotomuseum Den Haag. Together with fellow curator Willemijn van der Zwaan, Sikking will be responsible for the exhibitions programme and the photography collection. Curator Wim van Sinderen will retire at the beginning of 2023. Sikking has many years of experience as a freelance photography curator, lecturer and writer and was...

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...