Overview participating exhibitions
The Sequel
2013
The Sequel
Kadir van Lohuizen
LIVING APART TOGETHER (1993 & 2013)
In 1993, for a commission from the Amsterdam Municipal Archive, Kadir van Lohuizen followed the life of a family of Moroccan origin, living in Amsterdam Oost. The father, Ali, had just retired after a career as a factory worker which had begun in the 1960s as a guest worker at Friki. The mother, Laila, worked in the local community centre, the three youngest children were in school in Amsterdam, and the other three children had returned to Morocco to live. Van Lohuizen accompanied the family when they went back to Morocco on vacation and to visit relatives there. He saw an average family who tried to be part of the Dutch society, but nevertheless continued to be viewed as ‘those Moroccans’, while in Morocco they were viewed as the strange people from The Netherlands.
Now, twenty years later, Van Lohuizen visited this family again. Have they finally found their place in Dutch society, or have they shaped their identity in some other manner? What do they think about the hardening of Dutch society and the rise of the populist, anti-immigrant party, the PVV? With his sequel Van Lohuizen poses essential questions that touch directly on Dutch integration policy. When are you really Dutch? When are you accepted?
At the same time, this series is not just about the changes in the lives of a family and in Dutch society. Indirectly, he also reveals how a now widely honoured photographer has grown and changed, after two decades of roaming the world and working on a range of social subjects. In a certain sense, for The Sequel Van Lohuizen returned to The Netherlands and the beginning of his career.Kadir van Lohuizen (b. Netherlands, 1963) began his working life as a seaman and as the founder of a shelter for the homeless and drug addicts. Since 1988 he has worked as a freelance photojournalist. He has reported on many conflicts, chiefly in Africa, for magazines and newspapers. Among the awards he has collected are the Silver Camera, the Dick Scherpenzeel Prize , two World Press Photo Awards and the Kees Scherer Prize for the best photo book, and his work in Chad earned him the PDN Annual Award and the Visa d’Or News. In 2011 Van Lohuizen travelled from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska for his Via PanAm project, which resulted in an iPad app, a multimedia exhibition and his fifth book. Van Lohuizen is connected with the NOOR photo agency, of which he was one of the founders.
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Kadir van Lohuizen
LIVING APART TOGETHER (2013)
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Kadir van Lohuizen
LIVING APART TOGETHER (1993)
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Kadir van Lohuizen
LIVING APART TOGETHER (1993)
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Kadir van Lohuizen
LIVING APART TOGETHER (2013)
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Kadir van Lohuizen
LIVING APART TOGETHER (2013)
Land
2010
Land
Kadir van Lohuizen
NIGER DELTA (Nigeria, 2007
No country in the world has suffered as much for having oil as Nigeria has. While a small elite and foreign multinationals earn billions from the exploitation of its natural wealth, the people of the Ni-ger delta generally live at or below the poverty line. More than that: they have to also deal with the negative side-effects of oil production. Because of poor maintenance and sabotage, every year as much oil is lost into the fragile environment as was lost in the Exxon Valdez disaster. Agricultural land becomes unusable, fishing waters are changed into black slicks and swamps are rendered life-less. Kadir van Lohuizen recorded the lives of the delta's people in confrontational images, people whose lives are unintentionally dominated by oil. They live under the shadow of uncontrollable fires, with their feet in black gold that is worthless to them.
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NIGER DELTA (Nigeria, 2007
No country in the world has suffered as much for having oil as Nigeria has. While a small elite and foreign multinationals earn billions from the exploitation of its natural wealth, the people of the Ni-ger delta generally live at or below the poverty line. More than that: they have to also deal with the negative side-effects of oil production. Because of poor maintenance and sabotage, every year as much oil is lost into the fragile environment as was lost in the Exxon Valdez disaster. Agricultural land becomes unusable, fishing waters are changed into black slicks and swamps are rendered life-less. Kadir van Lohuizen recorded the lives of the delta's people in confrontational images, people whose lives are unintentionally dominated by oil. They live under the shadow of uncontrollable fires, with their feet in black gold that is worthless to them.
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NIGER DELTA (Nigeria, 2007
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NIGER DELTA (Nigeria, 2007
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NIGER DELTA (Nigeria, 2007
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NIGER DELTA (Nigeria, 2007
Biography
Kadir van Lohuizen (Netherlands, 1963) began to travel and photograph immediately after he finished secondary school. In 1988 this culminated in his first professional photoreportage for De Groene Amsterdammer. Later he worked for Vrij Nederland, Trouw, NRC Handelsblad, de Volkskrant, The Independent, Newsweek and other journals. He has won a Silver Camera three times and in 2007 received the Visa d’Or for a photo report on Chad, done for Le Monde. Van Lohuizen is one of the founding members of the Noor photo agency.
