by Nicolas Genty | Mar 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Since 1949, the Zilveren Camera is the Dutch price for photojournalism. The Hilversum museum gives a platform to show the winners of the last edition of 2021. We can admire on three levels the different categories rewarded: news, local and international, documentary,...
by Nicolas Genty | Mar 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
After being dazzled by Mentzel in Hilversum in December 2021, the Rijksmuseum gives a large retrospective of his oeuvre in Amsterdam. One can wonder about the programming of these exhibits so close to one another. I also wonder if the curators talk on a regular basis...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
After a drought of more than a month due to Covid lockdown, the museums have finally reopened their doors. This weekend was an occasion to go under the tropics at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam where a small exhibit “Through the lens of” has been awaiting...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
With the recent publication of new photography magazines, here in The Netherlands and in France, it seems that Christmas is everyday. At least, it is a renewed feast for the eyes. From the avant-gardist Fisheye, to the homage to photo reporters in Like, to the posh Pf...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Another weird exhibit at the Fotomuseum Den Haag. This time, it is an exhibit of photographs literally dug out of nowhere. A photographer, Ernst Lalleman, found a box full of large-format negatives in a squatted building in The Hague in 1984. These photographs were...
