Lovely to have my latest project A Clot in Time featured by the Polish photography website Szeroki Kadr. They have an anticipated audience of approximately 40,000 visitors. View the originial here.
Publication in Pf Fotografie Magazine
Very pleased with this beautiful publication in one of the leading photography magazines in the Netherlands! Thank you Elsje van Ree and Pf!
I feel very fortunate that TARUS is again being exhibited along the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson!
After being on show for a month during the G20 summit in Matera in Palazzo Malvinni Malvezzi in Matera (Italy) with the wonderful works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the exhibition has now moved to the wonderful city of Tricarico (Italy), where it will be again be seen along the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson. I owe a big thank you to the city of Tricarico and the Porta Coeli Foundation for this!
Are you around? Please come and see the exhibition. August 7 - October 3. Torre Norman, Tricarico. Italy.
Donato Faruolo, editor of the exhibition, has put together a wonderful text on the importance of the works. Read more about it here.
Solo exhibition NIGHTFALL is continuing its journey
It is lovely that the solo exhibition NIGHTFALL is continuing its journey through Slovakia. The exhibition had a wonderful start at the M´ART PRINT Gallery (Veľké Zálužie, Slovakia) from September last year to May 2021. Then it continued to be shown at the 14th International Photography Festival in Levice (Slovakia). Now it will be shown during the summer dance festival MOVEFEST (Košice, Slovakia) as a collaboration with POINT OF ASSEMBLAGE for a month, starting 28th of August.
A DREAM BECAME REALITY. MY WORK IN A DOUBLE-EXHIBITION WITH THAT OF MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON!
Photographer Eli Dijkers shows images of alienation and connection during G20 summit in Matera.
There are major differences between the work of Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) and that of Eli Dijkers (1978), but also similarities. In their own way, both portrayed the changes that took place in Lucan society in the post-war period.
Magnum photographer and founder Cartier-Bresson did that in two periods in the 1950s and 1970s. His reports portray important historical events that shaped the area in those years, such as the agricultural reforms, vaccination campaigns and industrialisation. The decay of the atavistic peasant civilisation is brought into sharp focus in a series of 26 photographs from the Rocco Scotellaro documentation centre.
The exhibition 'Tarsus' by Eli Dijkers shows work that the Dutch photographer made in 2018 during a stay as 'artist in residence' in Basilicata. His story, in one hundred images, crosses photographic genres and gives a multifaceted picture of the region at the bottom of the boot of Italy. His images subtly recount the contradictions and uncertainties of life in a peripheral region. The tone is melancholic, but the photos also show the resilience of the inhabitants.
Both photo projects tell about ways to overcome the feeling of alienation. Photography functions here as an instrument to penetrate the meshes of a society. The exhibition 'Strangers and strangeness' offers moments of reflection on what we are and how we present ourselves.
The exhibition ties in with the theme of the summit of the foreign ministers of the G20 countries on 29 June 2021 in Matera. The theme "People, Planet, Prosperity" expresses how the fate of people is intertwined. Not only in the spread of a virus, but also in the recovery that follows and in the struggle for environmental sustainability, social justice and universal rights.
The exhibition 'Strangers and Strangeness' takes place under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Matera, Municipality of Tricarico, Region of Basilicata, the President of the Regional Council of Basilicata, Province of Matera, Municipality of Vicchio and is in collaboration with Ilford Imaging Europe.
The exhibition is curated by the Porta Cœli Foundation. Curator is Donato Faruolo.
28 June - 31 July 2021, Palazzo Malvinni Malvezzi, Piazza Duomo, 75100 Matera (IT). Opening hours: Thursday to Sunday, 10.00 - 13.00 / 15.00 - 19.00.