Exhibition 'Oog in Oog Laak' Haags DNA - Haags Gemeentearchief Tramtunnel Gallery

From the March 14th until June 4th , you can stop at Spui Gallery of the Tramtunnel, if you like. To meet 55 residents I photographed for the Haags Gemeentearchief, for the project Haags DNA / Laak.
Within a few weeks I have tracked down residents from my old neighbourhood and met fantastic new ones.
With the great help for tips like initiatives @samen_voor_laak, and Vrouwenbuurtlab. Or anyone who could help shine a light on people, who are not always in the spotlight they deserve. Thank you!
Had great conversations, laughed, danced in storm & wind, sometimes the conversation got to sad turns, and talked about problems of the neighbourhood.
All these faces represent, or show a strong connection within the district in their own special way.

Like Manna here with her dog Mikey, who I joint one evening on their last walk.
Manna is famous at the Municipality of The Hague for her Twitter account where she is daily active about garbage, roadblocks and other problems in her neighborhood.. Like her personally adopted underground garbage containers. Using her own hashtag #ongehoordlaak.

Tramtunnel Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands

Ben & his mother Bep

Manna & Miky

Keshaw

Shehaira

NL Meer informatie Haags DNA - project van Haags Gemeentearchief: hier

Haags DNA – mijn Laak toen en nu  

De komende negen maanden besteedt het Haags Gemeentearchief speciale aandacht aan het stadsdeel Laak. Het archief brengt de rijke geschiedenis van Laak naar de bewoners toe en vraagt de bewoners van Laak om hun verhalen en belevenissen in hun wijk en stadsdeel, zodat de identiteit van Laak zoals het nu is, bewaard kan worden voor toekomstige generaties.  


Cuntmoon cards

The Cuntmoon project is an ongoing project started in the early 2000s with my first Iphone.
When Tumblr was still a thing..

But thanks to growth of Social Media, and Iphones getting better camera resolution. The collection of cuntmoons have been growing. Especially during the lockdown it felt good to catch the crescent moon, writing cunt in the night skies.

In this first edition of 50 cards i have made a 4-deck available.
(To be honest I can’t no longer keep the cheeky moons to myself).

Available in my shop here. For €8,- including VAT and free shipping for NL.

Limited Edition - Framed Print 2/7

For the upcoming book 'Drakeblood' I made a small print run available for a limited time.
From December 1st 2021 to March 1st, 2022 the print run will be determined by the number of buyers, max 20 . Afterwards a new print will be made available from 1 March till 1 June, meaning the framed work shown here will be no longer available.

This print run is created for the continuation of the project / photobook and for you to enjoy a little part of the project too ♥︎.

You can buy the print at Patty Morgan or in my Online shop here

Interview Omroep P&M 'De Zomeravond van...' 11 Aug 2021

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Interview (24min) met Omroep P&M voor hun aflevering ‘De Zomeravond van..’ in gesprek met Bart Nelissen over het fotografie project ‘Drakeblood’ mijn fascinatie - of betovering ligt er aan hoe jij het interpreteert - met het dorp Beesel, passie voor geschiedenis en verbinding van gemeenschap.

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Interview (24min) with Omroep P&M for their episode 'De Zomeravond van..' (Summernights of) in conversation with Bart Nelissen about the photography project 'Drakeblood' i’ve been working on, my fascination - or enchantment depends on how you interpret it - with the village of Beesel, passion for history and connection of a community.

NL - Haags Gemeentearchief 'Geloven in Verandering'

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Een aantal weken geleden heb ik in opdracht van het Haags Gemeentearchief een portretten reeks mogen maken voor het project ‘Geloven in Verandering’. Die de komende weken zal verschijnen Online, in boekvorm met uiteindelijk een fietsroute door Den Haag.

Zoals hier het portret van Mustafa voor Mescidi Aksa moskee.
Wisten jullie dat in de jaren 80 een groep Turkse moslims de leegstaande voormalige synagoge in het huidige Chinatown heeft gekraakt? Overigens netjes met medeweten van de toenmalige eigenaren, de Joodse Gemeente, die zelfs de stroom niet had afgesneden voor de actievoerders en het leegstaande gebouw graag aan de Turkse groep wilde verkopen.

Dankbaar dat ik weer mijn eigen stad in beeld heb mogen brengen en de personen met hun prachtige verhalen die hierbij horen.
@haagsgemeentearchief
Lees hier het interview van Mustafa: https://lnkd.in/eqH-MsDH

Meer portretten zullen later volgen.

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A few weeks ago I was commissioned by the Hague Municipal Archive to make a series of portraits for the project 'Geloven in Verandering' (Religion in alter).

Which will appear in the coming weeks Online, a book and eventually as a cycling route exhibition

such as the portrait of Mustafa in front of the Mescidi Aksa mosque. Did you know that in the 1980s a group of Turkish Muslims squatted the empty former synagogue in today's Chinatown? By the way, neatly with the knowledge of the then owners, the Jewish Community, which had not even cut off the power for the activists and wanted to sell the empty building to the Turkish group.

Grateful that I was able to portray my own city again and the people with their beautiful stories that belong to it. @haagsgemeentearchief

Read Mustafa's interview here: https://lnkd.in/eqH-MsDH

More portraits of this serie will follow later.

NL - NRC 9 juni 2021 - tekst Sarah Ouwerkerk

NL - In de NRC neem ik jullie vandaag mee op avontuur met het ‘Drakeblood’ verhaal. Waar ik nu zo’n dik 2 jaar mee bezig ben samen met Beesel en Stichting Draaksteken. Ontzettend spannend want er wordt nog druk hieraan gefotografeerd én gewerkt, maar nog spannender omdat ik ook een beetje verantwoordelijkheid moet afleggen voor 2500 mensen

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Sarah Ouwerkerk heeft een ontzettend leuk stuk tekst geschreven, die het verhaal en hoe de gemeenschap het beleeft weet te omschrijven. Dank @sarahkartono en @nrcnl voor het vertrouwen en publiceren van een lopend project! Link: https://bit.ly/3ct5Ki2

Dank aan: Johnny Swaters Vorkmeer Esther Apeldoorn-Feijts Hans van Kruchten Draaksteken Gemeente Beesel


ENG - publication in national newspaper NRC 9 juni 2021 text written by Sarah Ouwerkerk.

In the NRC newspaper I am taking you on an adventure today, June 9th 2021. With the 'Drakeblood' story. Which I've been working on for about 2 years now, together with Beesel and the Draaksteken Foundation. Very exciting, to be published while still working on it, but even more exciting because I also have to build up a bit of responsibility for 2500 people of the village of Beesel.

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Sarah Ouwerkerk has written a very nice piece that describes the story and how the community knows it. Thanks @sarahkartono and @nrcnl for trusting and publishing an ongoing project! Link: https://bit.ly/3ct5Ki2

Thanks to: Johnny Swaters Vorkmeer Esther Apeldoorn-Feijts Hans van Kruchten Dragon stabbing Municipality of Beesel


Haags Gemeente Archief - Burgemeesterwapens Oude Stadhuis Den Haag

On the job for The Hague Municipal Archives: Photograph of the old Mayor Coat of arms from The Hague. For the archive. Decorating the windows of the old town hall.

(Selection of 4 from the 40 Coat of arm).

ANP media producties - Madame Tussauds Meghan & prince Harry

From 19th July 2019, Madame Tussauds Amsterdam have two new royalties added to their collection.

I already had the pleasure of meeting Harry & Meghan during their short visit at our Royal palace ‘Huis ten Bosch’, on the job for ANP.



Hollandse Hoogte / ANP - Grote evacuatie oefening HvH

25-05-19 De hulpdiensten hebben vandaag een grote evacuatieoefening gehouden in de Berghaven in Hoek van Holland. Ook de ministers Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (Infrastructuur en Waterstaat), Ferdinand Grapperhaus (Justitie en Veiligheid) en Ank Bijleveld (Defensie) waren aanwezig. 

July 2018 - Family of No Man, Cosmos Arles Books,

Re-visioning the world through non-male eyes 

The Family of No Man is the culmination of an open call that has brought together 494 female and inter-gender artists from all around the world working in the medium of photography. The aim of this radical curatorial proposition is to revisit Edward Steichen’s original The Family of Man, a seminal photographic exhibition and publication from 1955, which in its time was described “as one of the most ambitious undertakings in an art museum”. Performing the patterns and production modes of the original project, which garnered both appraisal and controversy, The Family of No Man is conceived of as an open-ended physical and virtual platform of how the world today is seen through non-male eyes. The participants’ works are displayed in a series of interactive outdoor and indoor installations while new images, uploaded in real time to an online platform, will constantly update the selection during the Cosmos Arles Books week. This material in tandem with the visitors’ contributions will be deposited in a time capsule. Through its visual discourse, program of talks and parallel actions, The Family of No Man aspires to establish a critical space for an all-inclusive debate on gender equality, photography and its historiography. 

Exhibition curated by Brad Feuerhelm and Natasha Christia. 

Exhibition: July 2-8, 2018
Cosmos Arles Books

source; http://thefamilyofnoman.com/infos.php