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Judith Joy Ross

Portraits of America 26 November 2022 - 26 March 2023 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...

W.F. Hermans

Rather important photos 20 August 2022 - 8 January 2023 With literary titles such as The blind photographer and The darkroom of Damocles , it is no secret that the writer Willem Frederik Hermans (1921–1995) was passionate about photography. A less well known fact, however, is that he considered retraining as a photographer. To conclude the Hermans anniversary year , celebrating the centenary of...

Rein Jelle Terpstra

Dark Dunes 20 August2022 - 8 January 2023 Can photography conceal the real world? Rein Jelle Terpstra asked himself this question when he stumbled upon an old collection of negatives featuring landscapes, tulips, country lanes and Dutch skies. At first glance, they are photogenic compositions like the ones we see in paintings, but the date and place which the anonymous amateur photographer...

Parents

In the exhibition Parents , this summer the Fotomuseum Den Haag brings together works by more than thirty artists who have portrayed their mothers and fathers in a remarkable fashion. The selection of works shows that the relationship between parent and child is both universal and extremely personal and intimate. Through their work, the photographers provide an insight into their varied...