Overview participating exhibitions
Warzone
2010
Warzone
Lodewijk Duijvesteijn
NECESSARY SUPERSTITION: DUTCH SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN (Afghanistan, 2008)
In 2008 Lodewijk Duijvestein visited the Dutch troops in the Afghan province of Kandahar. Upon his arrival, he was struck by the difference between the image of the war in The Netherlands and the everyday Afghan reality. ‘Every day it was a very, very awful war,’ as Duijvestein says. No wonder, then, that of the group of soldiers with whom he hung out on his arrival in Afghanistan no one wore a good luck charm – but three months later, no one was without one.
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NECESSARY SUPERSTITION: DUTCH SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN (Afghanistan, 2008)
In 2008 Lodewijk Duijvestein visited the Dutch troops in the Afghan province of Kandahar. Upon his arrival, he was struck by the difference between the image of the war in The Netherlands and the everyday Afghan reality. ‘Every day it was a very, very awful war,’ as Duijvestein says. No wonder, then, that of the group of soldiers with whom he hung out on his arrival in Afghanistan no one wore a good luck charm – but three months later, no one was without one.
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NECESSARY SUPERSTITION: DUTCH SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN (Afghanistan, 2008)
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NECESSARY SUPERSTITION: DUTCH SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN (Afghanistan, 2008)
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NECESSARY SUPERSTITION: DUTCH SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN (Afghanistan, 2008)
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NECESSARY SUPERSTITION: DUTCH SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN (Afghanistan, 2008)
Biography
Lodewijk Duijvestein (Netherlands, 1973) studied at the Royal Academy for the Visual Arts in The Hague and works primarily on assignment for advertising agencies and periodicals. In his own projects he combines his commercial, stylised portraits, places and still-lives as building blocks for his stories. The aesthetic of violence is a recurrent theme in his work. Among the publications in which his work has appeared are Vrij Nederland, Quote, Winq, Playboy, Grab Magazine Italia, Taste and White Magazine.
