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The Photo Academy Award 2009

A record number of competitors submitted photos for this year’s Photo Academy Award 2009, which will be presented at The Hague Museum of Photography on 11 September. With two-and-a-half times as many entries as last year, this year’s competition has been a great success. No fewer than 175 students submitted a total of over 2000 photos. The Photo Academy Award is a prize for talented photographers...

Sally Mann

Document Nederland: Fighters and Peacekeepers

For a whole year, photographer Ad van Denderen lived and breathed the Dutch military. He photographed new recruits, the training they underwent and life on Dutch army bases. But he also took pictures of the army on its mission to Afghanistan and of those who stayed at home. Twenty years after the reunification of Germany, the Dutch military is constantly in the news and that made it a perfect...

Photography! A Special Collection from the University of Leiden

The first image produced using the camera obscura principle (1545), the original camera belonging to painter George Hendrik Breitner, daguerreotypes over 150 years old: the University of Leiden’s photographic collection is unique in many ways. It is both the oldest and the largest museum photography collection in the country, telling the whole story of the emergence and development of photography...

Silver Camera 2009

About to be awarded for the 61st time, the Silver Camera award is the foremost prize for press photographers in the Netherlands. The winner of the prize for the best news photo of 2009 is to be announced on Sunday 24 January at the Hague Museum of Photography. The award ceremony will also include the first ever presentation of the brand-new prize for Dutch Photo-Reportage of the Year and the award...

The Photo Academy Award 2010

'High quality photography' is what the judges of the 2010 Photo Academy Award concluded. It is this high standard that led to a record number of nominations in the various categories this year. Work was submitted by a total of 175 young photographers from 19 different photography courses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The nominees are students from five Dutch and three Belgian courses. Together...

"The Tireless Epic"

Their personal universe and love of women were the starting points for an incessant stream of images showing the world as they saw it. All three were trained artists but entirely self-taught as photographers. This autumn, the Hague Museum of Photography is showing the work of a trio of eccentrics regarded by the photographic world as ‘outsiders’: Dutchmen Gerard Petrus Fieret and Anton Heyboer...

Julian Schnabel

“Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it…” Julian Schnabel (b. 1951) became famous in the 1980s as a vigorously gestural Neo-Expressionist painter. The Hague Museum of Photography is now the first museum anywhere in the world to present eighty large-format...

Zilveren Camera 2010

About to be awarded for the 61st time, the Silver Camera award is the foremost prize for press photographers in the Netherlands. The winner of the prize for the best news photo of 2010 will be announced on Sunday 23 January at the Hague Museum of Photography. The award ceremony will also include the presentation of the Canon Prize for Innovative Photojournalism in the Netherlands and the Dutch...

Emiel van Moerkerken (1916-1995)

The role of Emiel van Moerkerken in the history of Dutch photography is highly important but hard to sum up. In the 1960s, he made reportage-type photos for Dutch Salvation Army magazine Strijdkreet, while at the same time snapping provocative nudes for satirical magazine Gandalf. In the 1930s and ’40s, his work was mainly Surrealist in nature. He was fascinated by the relationship between...