Frieda and the Hidden Animals
0Frieda en het Ongedierte (Frieda and the Hidden Animals) are finally set free! Now on YouTube for everybody who got VR glasses for Christmas. Three years ago we started experimenting with 360 video using a one lens 360 camera, a mobile phone, two laptops and sound equipment. The recordings were made in the Amsterdam Frankendael Park and on our Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer rooftop nicknamed ‘the Roof Jungle’. Frieda was 19 at the time and just starting as a student of composition at the Amsterdam Conservatorium. For five months we worked on the project, often re-doing scenes or waiting for the animals…
De Schipperskeuken – Marie Louise Schipper
De Schipperskeuken is een nieuwe serie kookprogramma’s met onderzoeksjournalist Marie Louise Schipper in de hoofdrol. De eerste vijf afleveringen is…
Peter Pan door Veronique Efomi. Een film van Jikke de Gruijter en Charlotte Brand.
NL12 film werkt aan een serie korte films over het leven in Nederlandse verpleeghuizen. Hierover binnenkort meer. We gaan samenwerken…
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…
Mijn kind wil iets met kunst, wat nu?
Aan menig keukentafel wordt dezer dagen een serieus gesprek gevoerd. Kind zit in het eindexamenjaar en moet een studie plannen.…
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…
Hendricus W. J. Bickhoff – The Amsterdam Citizen’s Orphanage (Burgerweeshuis), 1904.
In May 2017 Leo received his most spectacular purchase on the internet ever. Thinking he bought an old photo book,…
Eva Besnyö – the choice collection
Leo Erken’s first television documentary about the great Dutch – Hungarian photographer Eva Besnyö (1910-2003).
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.…
Team Play – On art education – episode two
Leo Erken, December 31, 2015. Sitting in a bar in the late nineties with colleagues who work in the creative…
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…
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.