Brief aan onze studenten fotografie/film op de eerste dag van het nieuwe studiejaar.
0Beste collega’s, Studeren aan een kunstacademie is een enorme luxe; het is de veilige periode waarin je je talenten kunt onderzoeken en uitbouwen. Dat doe je door te dingen te maken, kennis te verwerven en die zaken te relateren aan je persoonlijkheid en je mogelijkheden. Daarnaast onderzoek je de maatschappelijke relevantie van wat je te bieden hebt. Tijdens je studie komen verschillende vaardigheden samen. Sommige had je al tot op een bepaald niveau ontwikkeld, andere zaken hebben misschien extra aandacht nodig. De stadia van kennis en kunde in verschillende domeinen kunnen per persoon enorm verschillen. Daarom werk je samen; we…
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.
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…
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.…
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.