Winner!

Dear Jaap,

CONGRATULATIONS on being a Winner at the 19th Annual Black & White Spider Awards with:

Honorable Mention in Fine Art | Umbrella Weather

6,031 entries were received from 66 countries and your work received a high percentage of votes overall. Certainly an achievement, well done!

The Jury represented the industry's biggest names and tastemakers including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam; Pace Galley, Berlin; Ogilvy, New York; Financial Times, London; Alexander McQueen, London; The ArtFactory Club, Vienna; Dallas Contemporary; Kunsthaus Lempertz Auctions, Cologne; Portuguese Center of Photography; Jason McCoy Gallery, New York; Estee Lauder, London; DDB Canada; V Magazine, New York; Tori Fujii Creative Tokyo; Silvan Faessler Fine Art, Switzerland; Goldsmiths, University of London; Each Modern Gallery, Taipei; Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig/Berlin; Galleria Valeria Bella, Milan; David Clarke, London; Chiara Badinella, Art Advisory and Appraisals, Milan; Paola Anselmi Contemporary Art, Perth; Grey Group, New York; CHEP Network, Sydney; Nuud.Berlin Gallery, Berlin; Utah Museum Of Fine Arts; Ammann Gallery, Cologne; MUDEC, Museo Delle Culture di Milano, Milan; and Galerie Bugada Cargnel in Paris who reviewed the entries online before making their nominations and honoring 462 title awards and 655 nominees in 33 categories. The Awards could not have wished for a better group of professionals to work with.

Congratulations once again, we wish you a most successful photography year.

Basil O'Brien
Creative Director

Uit de Grootstad & Co/From the Major City & Co. #16

 Een Grootstad (Duits Großstadt) is een stad met meer dan 100.000 inwoners.(A major city (German: Großstadt) is a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants)

Amsterdam 01/02/2014

Regarding Iron Lines/Omtrent IJzeren lijnen (5).

 

Photograph made near the “Omval” (Fall Over). Amsterdam, 1992/02/15. Exhibition “Regarding Iron Lines”. About railroad tracks, travelling by train, train compartments. Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35-BG.  2024 1/19 until 2024 2/24. Save the Date!  

From my Shoebox: Umbrella weather.

                                                                                                      Amsterdam, January 1984.

Happy New Year!!

 To all my friends, family, followers & other folks!

A day in april 1981 at the National Museum Holland

 In april 1981 I took a photo of this group of people at the "Rijksmuseum" (National Museum) in Amsterdanm. The painting in the background is "The Samplers" by Rembrandt van Rijn, our most famous painter. Look how quiet the museum is! Looks like the covid year.

From my Shoebox #11

Visitors in front of “The Sampling Officials of the Drapers' Guild”, painted by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1662. Photo: April 1981, National Museum Amsterdam. It was quiet in the Museum those days. Now it is quiet too, for the time being I hope.

just me again?

I cannot resist myself in shooting this kind of photographs. Some sort of pictural suicide. Amsterdam, 18-21-8, 3.28 pm.

A.D. 2018 #25.

A 2018 street image. Light fall as a mysterious factor.  And the limits of the Lumix sensor. Photograph: Amsterdam, 4/18, 3.29 uur.

Follow the Icon (4)

A sign of a advertisement lightning sometimes turns out to be an icon for my photography. As a young boy of 5-6 years old I was always gazing at boxes with “Trix-Express” trains in the shopping windows of “Galeries Modernes” at the Vismarkt (Fish Market) in Groningen (NL). Turning around at the hand of my father I saw that huge sign at the opposite of the square. It was for the assurance company RVS. It consisted of a man with a walking pointing at the letters RVS, a small dog and a woman with a black umbrella. That umbrella impressed me very much. Some 30 years later I shoot a series “Umbrellas in the streets of Amsterdam”. Until today I often find umbrellas at my photographic path. Up: This was the advertisement sign, at the top of the walking stick one could see the letters RVS. Middle: Amsterdam, April 1984. Under Amsterdam: 2017/12/10, 5.06 pm.

June 23 (Wisps of City)

In the spring of 2016 I'm planning a small exhibition in the Amsterdam Window Gallery Studio Franjo http://www.franjo.nl/projektenstart.htm . Title: Wisps of City. About casual urban observations. Photos from many European cities. Up photo: Amsterdam, 15/6/4, 8.54 am. Middle photo Dusseldorf, 15/6/20, 1.24 pm. Under photo Amsterdam, 14/10/14, 2.25 pm.

April 17 (or April 5)

There is new attraction in Amsterdam. Fountains which go off with an irregular interval. Exciting stuff for kids and passing photographers. Amsterdam. 15/04/05, 3.05 pm. 

April 5.

Easter Sunday. Very crowded in the city. Young people dressed  up like models on the advertisement posters. Amsterdam 4.25 pm.

March 30.

Made through a passing streetcar. Just wondered how the photograph would show up. It represents to me the volatility of City Life. Amsterdam 1.13 pm.

March 23.

It was very quiet in the Foam museum. But the atmosphere was great, almost serene.....And yes I liked the portrait exhibition 'van Loon' , and couldn't quite understand the function of the enlarged test strips in another show. Amsterdam, 1.37 pm.  

March 14.

The experiment today was about a relationship between a panoramic format and a relatively long exposure time just to capture the feeling of a passing rally against the high housing rents in Amsterdam. I must say that I fully agree with the purpose of the rally. It is an outrageous shame how housing rents are increased to a point that most people just cannot afford. At the other hand house owners are supported in many ways. Amsterdam 2.45 am.

March 12.

Cycling home I saw this abandoned night terrace. I fell in love with the three red balls, which functioned as some kind of a romantic illumination. By the way it was one of the finest days of the year until now. Amsterdam 7.40 pm.  

March 2.

There's only a slight difference between a real human being and some mannequins. Amsterdam, 1.06 pm.

February 11.

Coming back from a late appointment I found the Amsterdam Central Station almost completely deserted. Creepy atmosphere. Amsterdam 10.42 pm.

February 4.

Tree branches like Thunderbolts! Wow. Amsterdam 12.35 am.