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Prinsessen en vrouwenrechten
Een onderzoek naar de visuele geschiedenis van vrouwenrechten. In 2003 werd mijn tv-documentaire over fotografe Eva Besnyö, waaraan ik ruim…

Saving Photography
The title of this project surprised some people who have heard me using a similar phrase in a different context…

Frieda and the Hidden Animals
Frieda en het Ongedierte (Frieda and the Hidden Animals) are finally set free! Now on YouTube for everybody has VR…

Eva Besnyö – the choice collection
Leo Erken’s first television documentary about the great Dutch – Hungarian photographer Eva Besnyö (1910-2003).

De Schipperskeuken – Marie Louise Schipper
De Schipperskeuken is een spontaan gefilmde serie kookprogramma’s voor youtube met onderzoeksjournalist Marie Louise Schipper in de hoofdrol. Hier met…

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.…

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…

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…

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.

The One Book Library – a new media experiment – Новые медиа эксперимент.
The onebooklibrary is under construction. Two years ago I published a photo book in co-operation with designer Svea Gustavs.…

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,…

Ulitza – War in Chechnya – photos by Leo Erken
Leo Erken: in November 2019 it was 25 years ago that the Chechen war started. I was a 30 year…

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…

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.…