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Donation by Wally Elenbaas

The photographic collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has been enriched this year by a donation of over sixty photographs by 93-year-old Rotterdam artist-photographer Wally Elenbaas. In gratitude for the artist’s donation, the Hague Museum of Photography is organising an exhibition focusing on the new acquisitions. They will be shown in combination with a large number of contemporaneous...

Desiree Dolron

Desiree Dolron (b.1963) is well-known both for her penetrating travel reportages and for her staged photographs. She is internationally reputed to be one of the most successful Dutch photographers in the world today. Both the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London have recently purchased work by her. The Hague Museum of Photography is about to present the first...

The Liberation of The Hague

Helena van der Kraan

To mark the occasion of her 65th birthday, the Hague Museum of Photography is holding the first ever major retrospective of work by Rotterdam artist and photographer Helena van der Kraan. Her photographic oeuvre, spanning a period of over 35 years, consists mainly of portraits, still lifes and documentary pictures of everyday life. In a world full of visual bombast, Van der Kraan’s work is an...

Ruud van der Peijl

‘King of Style’ Ruud van der Peijl is about to launch his photographic career with his installation Rude. Portraits of State at the Hague Museum of Photography: formal studio portraits of Dutch celebrities, up-and-coming personalities and people close to the photographer’s heart. The exhibition is all about watching and being watched, glamour and decadence, myth and masks, heaven and hell. With a...

Willem van de Poll (1895-1970)

Willem van de Poll worked as a photojournalist for Dutch and foreign news magazines like Panorama and Spiegel and conducted fashion shoots for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, but was best known in the Netherlands as the in-house photographer of the Dutch royal family. The National Archives of the Netherlands and the Hague Museum of Photography now present the first ever major retrospective of work by...

Friso Keuris

Best-known for his portraits of leading actors, musicians and writers, Friso Keuris (born 1963) is also the only photographer ever to have had the chance to produce a series of pictures of the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Over a period of two years (from October 2001 to October 2003) he produced fifty photographs, both interior shots and portraits...

Loretta Lux

The Hague Museum of Photography is pleased to present a museum retrospective of the work of Loretta Lux. Lux has won international acclaim for her imaginary portraits of children. The artist has developed a unique methodology of image-making located between painting and photography which she uses to meticulously compose images of children possessed with a striking self awareness. Collectively the...

Dirk de Herder

Hague photographer Dirk de Herder died in 2003 at the age of 88. His heirs have recently decided to give the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 40 of his photographs on permanent loan. This ‘promised gift’ now goes on exhibition at the Hague Museum of Photography together with photographs by contemporaries of De Herder from the museum’s own collection: photographers like Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lucebert...

Evelyn Hofer

From black-and-white to colour, from architectural subjects to the art of portraiture, from commercial assignments to autonomous creations: this retrospective of work by Evelyn Hofer (b. 1922) at the Hague Museum of Photography will demonstrate that this is a photographer with a complete mastery of a wide range of genres. Her painterly photographs are highly individual in style and a source of...