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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...

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...

Xiaoxiao Xu

27 MEI T/M 22 OKTOBER 2023 Photographer Xiaoxiao Xu’s journey along the Great Wall of China has resulted in two projects: Shooting the Tiger (2014) and Watering My Horse by a Spring at the Foot of the Long Wall (2017-2018). The 25,000 km road trip was part of Xu’s exploration of the country of her birth. Her compassion for the people she met around the wall and the stories she tells about them...

Speaking of Photography

Simon Ophof collected photographs for much of his life. In January 2022, just before he died, he donated his photography collection to the Fotomuseum Den Haag (part of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag). This gift contains more than 800 prints, varying from anonymous 19th-century photographs to works by the most famous photographers past and present.

To celebrate this gift, Fotomuseum...

Life Along the Long Wall

Photographer Xiaoxiao Xu’s journey along the Great Wall of China has resulted in two projects: Shooting the Tiger (2014) and Watering My Horse by a Spring at the Foot of the Long Wall (2017-2018). The 25,000 km road trip was part of Xu’s exploration of the country of her birth. Her compassion for the people she met around the wall and the stories she tells about them reveal a part of Chinese...

In love, Bored & Overslept

The exhibition School - In Love, Bored & Overslept is a photographic journey through 150 years of education and a trip down memory lane back to everyone’s own school days. To zoom in on what makes this period of our lives so unforgettable, this exhibition brings together 150 years of photographs of schools. Despite criticism of the state of Dutch education, the photographs in the exhibition mostly...

Curator’s tour

Women on the Frontline Saturday, August 19th 1:00 - 2:00 PM

Guided tour - Women on the Front Line

The exhibition Women on the Front Line – Photography from Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus rejects the notion that war photography is a man’s business. It highlights the work of eight female photographers who bravely stood their ground in dangerous, male-dominated situations on the front lines, from the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) to the battlefields of Afghanistan in 2014. Costs €90 an hour...

Temporary Drawings

As part of the Escher Year celebrations, Fotomuseum Den Haag is presenting a series of works by the Hague-based photographer Nico Laan (1956). His large-scale ‘impossible’ sand drawings bear a resemblance to M.C. Escher’s well-known optical illusions, but with a quirky twist: his drawing materials consist of the beach, a shovel, a rake and home-made tools. Laan made the drawings that he...

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