So very honored to see my publication 'The Humanness of Our Lonely Selves' shortlisted for the category 'Book of the Year' at the 2024 'Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards'. !  This is my fourth collaboration with friend and great designer Hans Gremmen / Fw:books.

So proud of this new book ‘The Humanness of Our Lonely Selves’, designed by Hans Gremmen, published by Fw.books. Amsterdam 22 x 28 cm | 56 pages | Leporello with a 16 page insert
Orders at publisher see here

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6 october will be the release of The Living Mountain composed by Thomas Larcher at EMC records.The concert and image projection premiered April 2022 at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, followed by concert in Hamburg and Neurenberg. London dates will follow.
The Living Mountain, composed 2019-20, draws inspiration from Scottish poet and  nature writer Nan Shepherd’s book of the same name. Besides the relation to this text, Larcher’s piece also draws from a series of photographs by Dutch photographer Awoiska van der Molen – landscape pictures taken in the mountains of Tyrol that were first projected alongside the premiere of Larcher’s piece in 2022. Van der Molen and the composer felt a deep affinity with each other’s work from the start – work “characterized by the slowness of analogue composing and photography as well as constraint through erasing and concealing of content.” Order here

My new body of work will be presented in a solo exhibition at Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography Amsterdam. From June untill October 2024. Can't wait to share it with you!

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I am invited by 'Cortona on the Move' to participate in an artist residency in Al'Ula, Saoudi Arabia -Three Western and three SA photographers will each develop a work alongside eachother, to be exhibited during the Cortona on the Move in July, Italy.

Image #665-7, Al'Ula desert

                     
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The contemporary music and audiovisual installation 'Odysseus'  has premiered and will stil be performed in three Dutch concert halls this month.
The music piece written by the Dutch/Greek composer Calliope Tsoupaki enters into dialogue with a projection of morfing images that I made on her Greek ground. This collaboration is commissioned and performed by the renowned contemporary music ensemble Asko|Schonberg.
‘Inspired by the Greek myth of Odysseus, the piece confronts the audience with the consequences of our human actions’.
Duration: 90 min.

Image: Odysseus performed at Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, nov 2021

                       
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'The Living Mountain - photographs by Awoiska van der Molen'.
Available at  Fw:Books, Amsterdam  and  PhotoEye, Santa Fe  /  Post, Tokyo / Tipi Bookshop, Brussels  /  TPG Bookshop, London  /  Photobookstore, London  /  PhotoQ, Amsterdam

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I am delighted to now be working with the great Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam.
'Am Schwarzen Himmelsrund' is my first solo show in their gallery, I hope you can come and see!

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Annet Gelink Gallery will present a selection of my new work at this Dutch contemporary art fair. Please visit them at the main section.

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Last month I did a commission for the NY Times Magazine, out this Sunday online and in print. This NY Times ‘Voyages’ issue is all about sounds. See and listen here the field-recorders and photographers that are brought together to show you eleven unexpected wonders around the world. My work is in chapter no.7

               

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Insights - 'The Poetry of Silence'
            
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I am deeply honored to have received the 2017 Larry Sultan Photography Award. This means I will be in residence at Headland Centre for the Arts in the Marin Headlands -just outside San Francisco- this fall. This residence is alongside a multi-disciplinary cohort of Artists in Residence. During my stay in the Bay Area I look forward to make new work, give a lecture and work with students at the California College of the Arts.

The Larry Sultan Photography Award was established in 2016 by
Pier24 Photography in partnership with
California College of the Arts
Headlands Center for the Arts
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Printing new photo work in the darkroom to be presented by Purdy Hicks Gallery at the Unseen photo fair in Amsterdam

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I couldn't be more honoured to be shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for my solo exhibition ‘Blanco’ at Foam Amsterdam. I am in the marvellous company of the other three shortlisted artists Dana Lixenberg, Sophie Calle and Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs.

The winner will be announced at a special award ceremony on 18 May 2017 at The Photographers' Gallery in London. Jury: Susan Bright, Curator; Pieter Hugo, Artist; Karolina Lewandowska, Curator of Photography at Centre Pompidou Paris; Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and Clare Grafik, Head of Exhibitions, The Photographers’ Gallery as the non-voting chair.

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