Fotomuseum Den Haag Stadhouderslaan 43 | Postbus 72 | 2517 HV Den Haag
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...
Ordinary People
In the retrospective exhibition Ordinary People, Fotomuseum Den Haag offers a fresh look at the work of Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra (1975). Over the last twenty years, Hornstra has created a human portrait of his own time by photographing people in their everyday situations, with a focus on Russia and Europe. Everywhere he goes, he looks for everyday scenes, such as a butcher at his block, an...
Guided Tour - School
See the exhibition School in a different way and learn more about the photographs on a guided tour. An experienced tour guide can provide you with even more interesting information and tell anecdotes about the exhibitions. Costs €90 an hour (without admission charges; max. 15 people) How to book a guided tour We recommend that you request a tour at least three weeks in advance via the button at...
Speaking of Photography
27 MAY - 22 OCTOBER 2023 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...
Silver Camera Award
The Silver Camera Award 2013 is the foremost prize for press photographers in the Netherlands. At this afternoon’s festive award ceremony at the Hague Museum of Photography, it went to Ilvy Njiokiktjien (b. 1984), a photojournalist who has often focused on South Africa. Her photograph of the final honours paid to Nelson Mandela was submitted in the Foreign News category and selected from over 10...
Frans Zwartjes
In the 1960s, Frans Zwartjes (b. Alkmaar, 1927) caused an international furore with his unique and inimitable black-and-white art films and photographs. Zwartjes is also a musician, violin maker, draughtsman, painter and sculptor, but it was in photography and film that his art achieved its greatest intensity. Frans Zwartjes has so far been known mainly as a filmmaker rather than a photographer...
Photography from Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus
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. The exhibition features...
Ukrainian Diary
Ukrainian Diary (1965-2019) is the largest retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands devoted to the Ukrainian photographer and artist Boris Mikhailov (1938). Since the 1960s, Mikhailov has been one of the few artists to create a compelling picture of the tumultuous changes in his country. He deliberately employs ‘bad photography’ – the conscious avoidance of perfection in...
Lobby - Between Green Deals and Ideals
LOBBY – Between Green Deals and Ideals is a photographic research project by Suzanne Schols, once a lobbyist and now a photographer, that aims to increase the visibility and transparency of the world of lobbying. She has focused specifically on the Brussels climate lobby and has contacted a large number of organisations that wanted to influence the European Green Deal, for which Frans Timmermans...
A Poet Photographer
To mark the centenary of the birth of the versatile artist Lucebert (1924 – 1994), in 2024 the Fotomuseum Den Haag is hosting an intimate exhibition that highlights his photography. Lucebert is best known as a painter and poet. That he was also a fanatical photographer for a brief period is less well known. Unlike many photographers of his time who used photography to represent reality, Lucebert...