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PLAY room

New photo’s and a preview to a new series, I will be taking part in a group exhibition in Gallery PLAY room. From 31-03 till 23-04.

Its an overview exhibition of PLAY rooms past 4/5 of art and other events

the other participants are: Ciaran Bowen, Herman Brood, Burning Desk, Laura van Dijk, Ben Eine, Bram Ellens, Ruth Horstmanshoff, Evelien de Jong, Ralph Posset, Sagrasse, Ivan Tuzov, Lux Vortex, Jasmine de Vries en Leon van Wijk.

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‘Hoe ik je zie’

Art Zaanstad

It is that time again! I will exhibit with my self-portraits!

This time during the group exhibition ‘Hoe ik je zie’ by Artzaanstad on the Hembrugterrein in Zaandam, with a number of new prints on a new kind of material.

The opening is Saturday on the 25^th of February at 2.30 pm.

Other participants are Elizabeth Koning (photography), Hobie Minnebreeker (photography) and Teun Anders & Monique van Laake (photography/graphic arts).

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1000

Days of Self-Portraits

ITS HAPPENING:

I AM RELEASING MY BOOK: ”1000 DAYS OF SELF-PORTRAITS‘

ON SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER 14:00 IN GALLERY PLAY ROOM IN ZAANDAM

WITH A SOLO EXPOSITION FROM 27 NOVEMBER TILL 11 DECEMBER

COME VISIT: WESTZIJDE 99, ZAANDAM.

ZAANSE GLORIE

7-30 October 2022

In collaboration with Fluxus, PLAY room and Café Mama Foundation White Cube is organising “Zaanse Glorie” in collaboration with Fluxus, PLAY room and Café Mama Foundation. The goal of this exposition is to gain awareness for the artist located in the Zaanstreek.

I will be one of 17 Zaanse artists. TThe artists were selected for their qualitative work as well as the way they express the unique, industrial characteristics of the Zaanstreek within their work.

Location: PLAY room (Westzijde 99) en Fluxus (Westzijde 168)

Time and date: 7-30 October 13:00 – 18:00

Fr. 7 october opening 18:00 – 21:00

ZAANPRIDE

Through the eyes of Armen Melkonian

This year the ZaanPride was held for the first time in the Zaanstreek. I wanted to participate as a photographer and I had the opportunity to personally follow Ambassador Armen before and during the trip. Armen has fled Syria because of the war and because of his sexuality. I became acquainted with him and photographed him the first time in the library where he spoke at the opening of the Pride. During the Rainbowparade on Saturday, he was at the forefront as ambassador. Dagblad Zaanstreek also showed interest and published a report viewed from Armen. Including my photo’s. The Parade was exactly like the motto: OUT LOUD PROUD!!

1000

Days of Self-Portraits

28-01-2019 I decided to commit to a 1000 days of self-portraits series.
I finished the series 23-10-2021.

It took me 142,86 weeks or 32,87 months or 2,74 years. It was a long journey that changed me as a person and photographer in many ways. I learned lots of things, gained so many experiences and occasionally lost parts of my sanity.
During this series I realised you can display a human in 1000’s of different ways.

Three years later, will I expose this work, will I release a book? Stay tuned…

For now the series is visible on my Instagram

AMNESTY

Ride for Rights

In 2021 I documented Amnesty Internatiol action: Ride for Rights. A large group of motorcyclists gathered at the Westergasfabriek, from there they toured the city adorned in rainbow colours. With this they drew attention for LGBTQ+ rights in Poland.

More info: www.amnesty.nl/actueel/ride-for-rights

BROKKING

End of an Era

Brokking was an old factory for fodder, located next to the channel de Zaan in Wormerveer. The building from 1930 was being demolished to make way for new houses. The demolishing was an incredibly spectaculair sight. A landmark of the region since the days of my grandparents, now a pile of rubble resembling a war zone.

I documented a part of history for my region the Zaanstreek.

MOVING A HOSPITAL

The move of the Zaans Medisch Centrum

In 2014 the building of a new hospital started, right next to the old building. In januari 2017 they started the process, the move was planned meticulously. To move the patients, they build a tunnel from one place to the other. It was an impressive collective effort to behold.