Project:
Roots of the Rúntur, Rob Hornstra
The introduction of fishing quotas has greatly changed Iceland. The young people there no longer wish to work in the fishing industry and are leaving for the city. Low-paid jobs are being filled by immigrants. In the photography book Roots of the Rúntur, Rob Hornstra has recorded these changes in penetrating portraiture.
Deep Focus
Rob Hornstra, Roots of the Rúntur
In spite of the many excellent photography museums in the Netherlands, there are precious few places for young talent to exhibit. Photographer ... person: Rob Hornstra
Photographer Rob Hornstra, 30, still takes pictures the slow, old-fashioned way, using film. “When people have to pose for a long time, they ... "It takes time to set up my cameras. That means more spontaneous pictures. When people pose for a long time, they eventually relax."
Rob Hornstra "Photography books are fantastic historic documents. But they're labour-intensive and you almost never recover expenses, so few get made."
Rob Hornstra
Project:
Naked Couch, Tina Roeder
Artist Tina Roeder endeavours to make us look at objects with new and different eyes. Naked Couch, her version of a doctor’s examining table, ...
Interview:
An Uncomfortable Examination
Tina Roeder, Naked Couch
What is the relationship between anonymous objects and intimacy? This question was the starting point for Naked Couch, a doctor’s examining ... "The clash between the innocence you’d expect and the harsh reality makes you look at objects in a different way."
Tina Roeder “How often do we look at things properly? The relationship between reality and fiction is totally confused, and we've become lazy."
Tina Roeder
Project:
Table de Ville, Hans Meiboom (Studiomeiboom)
A table that’s more than two kilometres long ought to get people talking to each other again. Hans Meiboom wants to build just such a table in ...
Interview:
The Smell of the Landscape
Birthe Leemeijer, L’Essence de Mastenbroek
Designing a perfume for Mastenbroek, a late-medieval Dutch polder in the province of Overijssel where many cattle farmers make their homes and ...
About Behind the Scene
Ahrend's search for essence. About Ahrend
The Dutch office-furnishings manufacturer Royal Ahrend produced the exhibition Behind the Scene #01 as an accompaniment to the presentation of ...
Interview:
The Long Road from the Farm
Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Milk
For two years, artist Esther Polak carried a compass to help her find her way around in Amsterdam. Since then, spatial awareness has been the ... "The fragrance not only calls forth associations you can immediately name, like hay, milk and cattle, it also tries to evoke an idea of space and the sensation of cold wind."
Birthe Leemeijer "Really, everyone needs their own map. Everyone has their own spatial pattern, their own view of reality."
Esther Polak Credits