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Nature Photography Close to Home
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Nature Photography Close to Home

Discover some of the best nature photography locations in the Netherlands and learn when to visit, what to look for, and what gear to bring.

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New Photo and Video Apps with AI from 2025
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New Photo and Video Apps with AI from 2025

Discover Edits, Artisse AI, Lushfoil Photography Sim, and Photoshop for iPhone: creative apps and tools for photo, video, and AI editing.

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How to Find Work as a Wedding Photographer
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How to Find Work as a Wedding Photographer

Want to find more work as a wedding photographer? Use your own website, social media, and wedding platforms to reach engaged couples.

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Les Ruines de Paris - Galerie Fontana
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Les Ruines de Paris - Galerie Fontana

AI photography exhibition “Les Ruines de Paris” at Galerie Fontana, featuring Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, February 8–May 3, 2025.

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Your own photo on aluminum: the advantages
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Your own photo on aluminum: the advantages

Read why a photo on aluminum gives a sleek presentation and what advantages the light, strong material offers for photos in the home.

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Capturing Body Heat: Photography in BODY HEAT
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Capturing Body Heat: Photography in BODY HEAT

BODY HEAT at Droog explores the relationship between body, climate, emotion and movement with photography, sculptures, installations and multimedia.

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Chris Killip - Retrospective
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Chris Killip - Retrospective

A retrospective of more than a hundred works by Chris Killip about communities in Northern England and the consequences of economic downturn.

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The most expensive camera and lenses
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The most expensive camera and lenses

The Leica 0 with serial number 105 is almost 100 years old, and the prototype of this camera was sold in 2022 for no less than 14.4 million euros.

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Tips for the school photo
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Tips for the school photo

Tips for a successful school photo. Both the students and the school photographer achieve the best results for a school photo.

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Photography while cycling
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Photography while cycling

Tips for taking photographs on a long bicycle ride through a city or the countryside.

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The fascinating history of Polaroid
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The fascinating history of Polaroid

The fascinating history of Polaroid: from Edwin Land and the first instant cameras to the modern comeback of analog photography.

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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens

The documentary Life Through A Lens traces how Annie Leibovitz became an influential American portrait photographer over the course of more than thirty years.

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Playboy Photographer René de Haan
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Playboy Photographer René de Haan

Playboy Photographer René de Haan — At the time of publication, René de Haan had been photographing for Playboy since 1999.

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Annie Leibovitz Photographs Francis Ford Coppola
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Annie Leibovitz Photographs Francis Ford Coppola

Annie Leibovitz portrays Francis Ford Coppola in a remarkable photo series. Background and images featuring the renowned American photographer and director.

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Jasper Juinen Photographs Euro 2008
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Jasper Juinen Photographs Euro 2008

Interview with photographer Jasper Juinen about his work for Getty Images, sports photography, major events, and the profession of editorial photography.

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Photojournalist Geert van Kesteren
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Photojournalist Geert van Kesteren

Geert van Kesteren discusses a photograph of a cocoa-farming family in Ivory Coast and the painful consequences of poverty and unfair trade.

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Travel?
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Travel?

Travel photography: anyone who gets on a bicycle with a camera to photograph sheep on a nearby dike is doing travel photography, by Ben Seelt

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Jumping Dalí
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Jumping Dalí

Jumping Dalí: ‘One, two, three… four!’ And up goes the great surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.

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Martha Cooper, Passionate Photographer
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Martha Cooper, Passionate Photographer

Martha Cooper is far more than the grand dame of graffiti and hip-hop. This exhibition presented fifty years of street photography and documentary work.

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Documentary Photographer Taco Anema
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Documentary Photographer Taco Anema

Which photograph has stayed with documentary photographer Taco Anema? Discover why this particular image still resonates.

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Landscape Photography — Part 2
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Landscape Photography — Part 2

Part 2 covers technique and equipment, from cameras and lenses to long exposures, tripods, filters, and practical tips.

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Rare Color Photographs from World War II
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Rare Color Photographs from World War II

The NIOD holds 1,500 rare World War II color photographs by Alphons Hustinx, showing the occupation, destruction, and everyday life in the Netherlands.

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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

Background article on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day and pinhole photography: making photographs with a simple lensless camera.

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Viva Las Vegas
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Viva Las Vegas

Travel photography on the road to Las Vegas: Ben Seelt recounts a photographic road trip through California and Las Vegas.

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Annie Leibovitz Photographs Keith Richards
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Annie Leibovitz Photographs Keith Richards

Annie Leibovitz photographed Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in a hotel room for Louis Vuitton’s global Core Values campaign.

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Landscape Photography - Part 1
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Landscape Photography - Part 1

In part one of this series, Hillebrand Breuker explores light and composition in landscape photography, from the golden hour to fog and cloud cover.

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Advertising Photographer Boudewijn Smit
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Advertising Photographer Boudewijn Smit

Which photo has stayed with advertising photographer Boudewijn Smit? Discover why this particular image still resonates with him.

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New Photographs by Miles Aldridge
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New Photographs by Miles Aldridge

New photographs by Miles Aldridge: a series full of character, color, and style. Discover his latest work at the time.

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The Hindenburg Disaster
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The Hindenburg Disaster

The story behind Sam Shere's famous photograph of the burning Hindenburg, the Lakehurst disaster, and his work as a news photographer.

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Morocco Really Is Fun
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Morocco Really Is Fun

Ben Seelt shares his experiences with street photography in Morocco, a stolen Nikon, and unexpected encounters along the way.

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Robert Knoth
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Robert Knoth

An interview with documentary photographer Robert Knoth about awards, working in dangerous regions, and his projects on nuclear disasters.

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Fotofestival Schiedam 2020
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Fotofestival Schiedam 2020

Fotofestival Schiedam (FFS) is an annual festival. Its seventh edition, held in 2020, explored the theme “Transitions.”

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Photo Report: Conquest of the North Pole
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Photo Report: Conquest of the North Pole

Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev show how melting Arctic ice reveals geopolitics and climate change in VPRO Tegenlicht.

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Day In, Day Out – Teun Hocks
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Day In, Day Out – Teun Hocks

The 2019 solo exhibition Day In, Day Out by Dutch photographer Teun Hocks (1947) at TORCH Gallery featured ten new photo-paintings.

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Erwin Olaf Double Exhibition
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Erwin Olaf Double Exhibition

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and Fotomuseum Den Haag honor the renowned Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf with a double exhibition.

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Being Places: Ellen Kooi
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Being Places: Ellen Kooi

Being Places, a solo exhibition by Dutch photographer Ellen Kooi (born 1962) at TORCH Gallery, presented her most recent work.

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In the Light of Venus
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In the Light of Venus

In the Light of Venus was the title of a retrospective exhibition devoted to photographer Jan van der Horn.

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An Ode to the Polaroid Photo
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An Ode to the Polaroid Photo

An ode to the Polaroid photo: Het Uur van de Wolf featured filmmaker Willem Baptist’s documentary Instant Dreams.

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Miles Aldridge at Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam
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Miles Aldridge at Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam

Reflex Gallery Amsterdam presents Art History, a solo exhibition by Miles Aldridge featuring colorful, surreal photographic art and glamorous mises-en-scène.

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Underwater Photography at VondelCS
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Underwater Photography at VondelCS

Harry Fayt’s Underwater Photo Exhibition ran from February 10 through March 9, 2018, at VondelCS MediaCafé in Amsterdam.

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Press Photographer Jeroen Oerlemans
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Press Photographer Jeroen Oerlemans

A portrait of press photographer Jeroen Oerlemans, who documented conflict zones and was killed while on assignment in Sirte in 2016.

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