Hendricus W. J. Bickhoff – The Amsterdam Citizen’s Orphanage (Burgerweeshuis), 1904.
0In May 2017 Leo received his most spectacular purchase on the internet ever. Thinking he bought an old photo book, in reality he bought 27 original photo’s by the Amsterdam photographer Hendricus W. J. Bickhoff (1866-1933) dating from 1904. The pictures are telling a staged story of the life in the Amsterdam citizen’s orphanage (Burgerweeshuis Amsterdam). It was presented in a leather box to it’s former director J. Stork in 1904.The building is now the Amsterdam Museum and looks pretty much as on these pictures. These pictures however bring back a world that is long gone. What a treasure!
Frieda and the hidden animals NOMINATED FOR THE DUTCH SILVER CAMERA NEW MEDIA AWARD
Together with singer/composer Frieda Gustavs, Leo Erken is working on his first virtual reality project. This project is for children.…
Let us stop smothering the new generation with our nostalgia. – On art education – episode one.
Leo Erken, December 9, 2015 A photographer friend who has a romantic heart told me about the day she and her…
Arts and economics – On art education – episode three
Leo Erken, Februari 17, 2016 On a recent rainy Sunday afternoon my former students of photography posted many Instagram and…
The One Book Library – a new media experiment – Новые медиа эксперимент.
www.onebooklibrary.com Two years ago I published a photo book in co-operation with designer Svea Gustavs. The book Улица-Street-Straße had three…
Улица-Street-Straße
The book Street – Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union 1987-2003, published in 2013, recounts the turbulent period in…
Expectations
Expectations is work in progress. Since 2006 Leo visits families and individuals with a 8×10 inch view camera. About…
YADI – a film documentary in progress
By Leo Erken, April 2016 My friend Yadivindra Singh Saroya passed away on October 6, 2015, at the age of 49.…
Eva Besnyö – the choice collection
Leo Erken’s first television documentary about the great Dutch – Hungarian photographer Eva Besnyö (1910-2003).
The Alzheimer Project
Let’s share the Alzheimer experiences… I found out late, very late – my sister had to tell me – that a huge part of my mothers’ memory had gone.
Leigh Bowery with Nicola Bateman and Richard Torry in Fort Asperen, The Netherlands, 1994.
In summer 1994 Leo was sent by The Independent Magazine to the Fort Asperen art show to make a report on…
On the Road
A small selection of photo’s made by Leo Erken during various trips around the globe.
Images taken with my phone. A visual dairy.
Pictures made by Leo Erken with his mobile phone between February 2014 and March 12, 2017. In reversed chronological order.