by Nicolas Genty | Aug 5, 2025 | Blog
After meeting Eddy van Wessel in Hilversum a couple of weeks ago, I felt compelled to visit his exhibition “War Stories. Ukraine Up Close” at the Military Museum in Soesterberg. There, a powerful selection of his most striking photographs is presented in a somber,...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 4, 2025 | Blog
I stepped into the parallel universe of Scarlett Hooft Graafland through a kind of portal. At first glance, the world she creates with her photographs feels familiar: the vast salt flats of Bolivia, the icy expanse of the Canadian Arctic, the huge baobabs of...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 31, 2025 | Blog
Mister Lui passed away. This is a sad day for me, and for Singapore photography. A simple man, Lui Hock Seng quietly documented Singapore through decades of transformation. His work, mainly the black and white photos takein in the 1960’s and 70’s, was...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 17, 2025 | Blog
An evening at Museum Hilversum with Dutch war photographer Eddy van Wessel marked the release of his new book, Ukraine. Van Wessel is a craftsman of the old school — patient, solitary, the last lone wolf of his sort, standing alongside legends like Don McCullin,...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 4, 2025 | Blog
After a two-year absence, Foto Festival Naarden is back. I thoroughly enjoyed the 2019 edition, but 2021 left me underwhelmed (to be mild). And what about 2025? To be honest, my thoughts echo those of 2021 almost word for word: “I don’t know what it...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 4, 2025 | Blog
May 5th, 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII in The Netherlands. At that occasion, a large exhibition started at FOAM in Amsterdam, “The Underground Camera”, about the resistance fighters who, throughout the war and at their own risk, took...
