Guide to Unique Photography

Photography of the night sounds like a paradox given that the name of the medium implies the availability of light and nighttime is generally dark. A photographer can always make use of a flash, but, in most instances, only at the cost of losing the atmosphere of the night. The most prolific photographers of the night are aware of this fact and work with available light so that images that register the mystery of the night, or even strengthen it for that matter, are taken.

If you haven’t already encountered his work, it’s about time we introduced this man. Rob Hornstra, documentary photographer and driving force behind Fotodok tells a visual story with his newest project ‘101 Billionaires’. After his successful series ‘Communism & Cowgirls’ - about the first generation of Russians who landed in a perturbed land of milk and honey after the fall of communism – Rob went searching for the powerful again.

Sally Mann is best known for a series of work that documents her own family, the lives of her three children in particular. Immediate Family, published in 1992, stirred-up intense controversy due to the explicit frankness and intimacy revealed in some photographs of the children in various states of nudity. Because of the intimate relationship Mann shared with her family, and the comfort they found in the landscape of their summer home, it had not occurred to her that these images would stir up such controversy.

White trash is a pejorative term targeted at lower social class white people with poor prospects and/or low levels of education. That’s according to Wikipedia anyway… According to Wouter Bijl the two words are much more interesting when taken literally as, well… white trash. So Wouter wandered off into the woods and open fields, mostly in the south of the Netherlands, and photographed white trash in its natural habitat. The resulting photos are as simple as striking. It’s white trash!

Kadir van Lohuizen has covered conflicts in Africa and elsewhere, but is probably best known for his projects on the seven rivers of the world and the diamond industry. Kadir is based in Amsterdam and New York. He has received numerous prizes including two World Press Photo awards and the Visa d’Or.

With Fall Erwin Olaf has a new exhibition on display. It’s the last sequence in a series of four: Rain, Hope, Grief, Fall . The latter of this series of four was added this September. No leather, no hard-ons and no murdered kings and queens this time, but intense portraits with lots of natural light and some plants in between. Erwin Olaf has travelled a long way as an artist since he began taking pictures almost three decades ago and says that he is now, finally, learning to let go.

After nearly four decades of obscurity, a unique collection from the oeuvre of the Dutch photographer Sanne Sannes 1937 - 1967 comes to light again. The fact that this collection of rare vintage works from the Sannes Estate will be available again for an international market marks an opportunity for Dutch photography. Sannes, during his brief photographic career in the sixties, became renowned for his taste for the erotic, his fascination with women and approach to seduction. His timeless imagery recalls the atmosphere of the sixties.

Take a bakfiets (a delivery bike) and a brommer (a moped). Remove the back wheel and frame from the bike and take the front wheel off the moped. Fuse the remaining parts together and you have a bakbrommer (a delivery moped).