Otto Snoek
Otto Snoek is a Dutch contemporary photographer whose work occupies a distinctive space between documentary observation and poetic interpretation. Working primarily in the Netherlands, Snoek brings to the familiar landscapes, interiors, and domestic scenes of his home country an eye that is simultaneously precise and dreamlike, finding in the flat Dutch terrain and its distinctive […]
Read MoreRineke Dijkstra
Rineke Dijkstra was born in 1959 in Sittard, a small town in the southern Netherlands, and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. For the first decade of her career, she worked as a commercial and editorial photographer, producing competent but unremarkable work for magazines and corporate clients. The transformation that would make her […]
Read MoreHans Aarsman
Hans Aarsman was born in 1951 in Amsterdam, and his early career followed a conventional path for a Dutch documentary photographer of his generation. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and worked as a freelance photographer through the 1970s and 1980s, producing documentary images of Dutch life that appeared in newspapers and magazines. He […]
Read MoreHans Eijkelboom
Hans Eijkelboom was born in 1949 in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and came of age during a period when the boundaries between fine art and photography, between conceptual practice and documentary tradition, were being radically redrawn. He studied at the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Arnhem and emerged in the early 1970s as a conceptual artist […]
Read MoreEd van der Elsken
Ed van der Elsken was born in 1925 in Amsterdam, into a middle-class family that offered little encouragement for artistic ambitions. He studied sculpture briefly at the city’s academy of art before turning to photography, a medium that suited his restless, confrontational temperament far better than the slow deliberation of working in three dimensions. In […]
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