Just from Diemen NL #17

(Photographs from the town of Diemen, suburb of Amsterdam, my hometown for the last 22 years.)

Heavy Weather!!! 

Late Summer

 Photo 2023-08-22 3.14pm. Castricum (NL).

(2024-01-19 Opening of my exhibition “Regarding Iron Lines”, about trains, railways & passengers. Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35-BG, Amsterdam. Save that Date!)

Greetings from Diemen NL #19

-Castle in Diemen-

(Often when I go out into my hometown Diemen, the somewhat sleepy suburb of Big City Amsterdam, I take my camera with me. I try to capture accidental beauty and sometimes unplanned alienation of the banal aspects of the everyday scenery. I started to do this from 2004, the year we came to live here, at first in black and white, from 2006 in color.)

Photo: Stammerdijk, Diemen NL, 22/2/14, 3.21 pm.

I am a Winner

 

Hi Jaap,

CONGRATULATIONS on being a Winner at the 16th Annual Black & White Spider Awards with:

Honorable Mention in Sport | Falling from the Sky 2
Honorable Mention in Fine Art | Windpower or Nuclear Power
Nominee in Fine Art | Talking to myself
Nominee in Sport | Falling from the Sky 1

6,211 entries were received from 75 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 Galerie Springer, Berlin; HackelBury Fine Art, London; DROGA5, New York; Artfactory Club, Vienna; Portuguese Center of Photography, Porto; Spurs Gallery, Beijing; Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels; The Guardian, London; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan; ADK Creative One Inc., Tokyo; Hiroshima MOCA, Japan; Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney; Silvan Faessler Fine Art, Switzerland; Goldsmiths, University of London; Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation, Berlin; NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale; Cassina Projects Gallery, Milan; David Clarke, London; Paola Anselmi Contemporary Art, Perth; Chiara Badinella, Art Advisory & Appraisals, Milan; MWWM, New York; and Galerie Bugada Cargnel in Paris who reviewed the entries online before making their nominations and honoring 596 title awards and 935 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.~

From my shoebox #2

Shot at Florence may 1985. Another proof of the unreliability of photograhy. There is an atmosphere of quietness in the photo. In reality the square in front of the sleeping guy was swarming with tourists an screaming children.

A.D. 2018. #3

The number of physical mailboxes was decreasing during 2018. Sometimes I miss the special value of writing and posting physical letters. Bakkum Noord. NL. 07/15 2.20 pm. A.D. 2018 is a selection from photographs I made during 2018.

Nominee!!!

Dear Jaap,

CONGRATULATIONS on being a Tree Times Nominee at the 9th Annual International Color Awards!

5,678 entries were received from 78 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 Contrasto, Rome; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Whitechapel Gallery, London; DDB, Berlin; Forsman & Bodenfors, Gothenburg; Art Beatus Hong Kong; DB Agency, Milan; InStyle Magazine, New York and Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna who reviewed the entries online before making their nominations and honoring 591 title awards and 634 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

Up: Maastricht, 2015/02/15 2.04 pm.  Middle: Antwerpen, 2015/03/07 5.07 pm. Under: Near Schardam, 2015/05/09 4.37 pm.

June 11 (previous days)

This tree is standing in an area which in April 2010 was almost completely burnt down. The only way to get there is by feet or by bike. Cars are not allowed. It is a strange area, only sand and some trees which were partially left behind by the fire. It feels like being on another planet. Very barren en lost. The tree at the picture is some kind of monument for me. I always stop there for a while.

All Photos: Schoorlse Duinen. Up 14/5/16 4.21 pm, middle 14/9/20 1.58 pm, under 15/6/7 4.50 pm.

May 21 (May 2,9,16)

It is one of the things I am doing lately: investigating if a striking (landscape) photograph can be made with a minimum of elements. Up: Bakkum Noord 15/5/2. 5.19 pm. Middle: Schardam 15/5/9 4.32 pm. Under Schoorlse Duinen: 3.59 pm.

March 21.

The advertisement column has a very yellow color. The dark clouds in the background were a small present from the weather this 2^nd day of spring 2015. Diemen, 3.46 pm.

March 9.

When I looked out of the bedroom window this morning I saw the sky being covered with all kinds of plane stripes. Looked like a beautiful abstract painting. Diemen is only a few miles away from the national airport Schiphol. Diemen, 7.57 am.  

Het land langs # 24 (Along the Country Side # 24)

That why I always use post processing: to emphasize and intensify the awareness of Time, Light & Space.  I was cycling around along the Dutch countryside and was struck by the intensity and the strength of Light and Color.

Up: Beemster_Zuiddijk 13/10/04 4.39 pm

Under: Zunderdorp 13/10/04 2.48 pm

Het land langs # 16 (Along the Country Side # 16)

Sometimes it doesn’t need much to make a photograph: Some clouds in the sky, some sunlight, a bit of green land..

Up: Schelle (NL) 03/03/13 1.52 pm

Under: Schelle (NL) 03/03/13 1.45 pm

Het land langs # 15 (Along the Country Side # 15)

Last Saturday it was beautiful weather. I made a trip on my bike. It is possible to cycle very close to the only steelworks in Holland. The combination of a deep blue sky and the strange scenery gave me the feeling of being on another planet.

Up Velzen (NL) 12/09/08 2.01 pm

Under Velzen (NL) 12/09/08 2.30 pm

Het land langs # 14 (Along the Country Side # 14)

A few days ago I came back from 2 fantastic weeks of work at the Dutch foundation “BUITENKUNST”. For more information take a look at the website. I was giving 2 workshops there: one week at my own about the making of an own photobook and one general week of photography with my wonderful college FEMKE VAN HEUGTEN, a very good photographer and teacher.

At the grounds of Buitenkunst many kinds of workshops are given: sculpture, painting but also singing, theatre, music, poetry ect. 

The workshops are given during daytime, in the evening there are lots of presentations, shows, performances, exhibitions. There is often a hectic, almost electrifying atmosphere, which is very inspiring for both teachers as well as participants.

Everybody sleeps at the terrain.  Some evenings  I felt the need for a moment for some rest and peace and I took my bike for a small tour in the surroundings.

Buitenkunst is in a part of Holland which used to be sea 60 years ago. So you find a rather artificial land, very flat. I tried to make metaphorical landscapes, with thanks to painting college RENÉ DE ROOZE, whose workshop gave me the final idea.

Moreover all the colleges were a great & warm team to work with! And almost every participant was very eager to learn.

Randmeer 12/8/6 8.11 pm

Randmeer 12/8/5 8.44 pm

Randmeer 12/7/31 8.12 pm

Het land langs # 11 (Along the Country Side # 11)

Some haze on the water, a cloud in the sky, a little bit of wind, one doesn’t need much for a photograph.
IJsselmeer (NL), 12/03/15, 4.29 pm

Zomaar *4

Ja, ja het heeft wel wat, ik weet het. De wind jaagt om het huis en de kachel staat hoog. De romantiek van de herfst. En straks de winter.
Maar die vroeg in vallende duisternis. De eindeloze grijze luchten. De kale bomen. Geen bloemen.
Stiekem verlang ik naar de lente.
Foto: Diemen. 10/4/10. 13.43 uur.

Treinreis

De wolken en ik. We reisden een poosje samen. Daarna gingen we elk onze weg.
Foto’s: Brussel-Mechelen. 19/06/09. 19.36-19.41 uur.

Zelfportret # 44

Fietsen in de Flevolandpolder. Over de voormalige zeebodem: Het blijft een vreemd idee, dat op de hoogte waar ik mijn foto’s neem vroeger de haringen zwommen.
Als klein kind heb ik nog gezien, dat er alleen water was. Ik zie mezelf als klein jochie op een strandje bij Elburg staan. Aan de horizon zijn draglines bezig. Volgens mijn vader wordt er een dijk gebouwd.
Foto: Lelystad-Dronten. Wisentweg. 12/06/09. 17.24 uur

Hollandse Panorama's

Afgelopen vrijdag ben ik met een straffe noordwesterwind in de rug van Enkhuizen naar Lelystad gefietst om in de polder op Buitenkunst een fotografieworkshop ”Landschap en Ruimte” te geven. Panoramafoto’s hebben al snel een ruimtelijke werking. Toch staat de foto in de schaduw van de ervaring van wind, licht, lucht en de geur van het (zoete) IJsselmeerwater.
Onderweg ben ik 1 x ingehaald, heb zelf 2x ingehaald en heb 4 x fietsende tegenliggers gehad. De auto’s waren weer eens niet te tellen.
Foto boven: IJsselmeer. 12/6/09. 14.47 uur.
Foto onder: Dijk Lelystad-Enkhuizen. 15.32 uur.