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Letizia Battaglia - Life, Love and Death in Sicily

4 April – 23 August 2026 Photographer, activist and politician Letizia Battaglia (Sicily, 1935–2022) captured the harsh reality of life in Sicily in the shadow of the mafia. From the early 1970s, she recorded the impact of mafia rule on the Sicilian population and the suffering it caused. In her fight against organised crime, Battaglia wielded her camera as a weapon: as a photojournalist, she...

Female Portraits from the Collection

11 October 2025 – 22 March 2026 A self-portrait by a woman is often much more than an image of her body. It can also be a powerful tool to address social issues. In the exhibition Female Portraits from the Collection , the Fotomuseum Den Haag shows works from the collection by female makers who work with the photographic self-portrait in various ways. The exhibition shows intuitively how these...

Randa Mirza - BEIRUTOPIA

17 May - 28 September 2025 In the exhibition BEIRUTOPIA, Lebanese photographer Randa Mirza (1978) examines the dramatic changes that Beirut, the city she was born and grew up in, has undergone. In recent decades, Lebanon has been rocked by a succession of political, financial and social crises and its people have been burdened by a political elite that enriches itself at their expense. BEIRUTOPIA...

Moerwijk Forever

In Moerwijk Forever we see Moerwijk, a neighbourhood in The Hague, through the eyes of the children who live there. As narrators of their own story, they have pictured their daily activities, dreams and challenges. Over the past year, students from the P. Oosterleeschool and other young people from the neighbourhood photographed places in Moerwijk that are important to them. The exhibition is on...