Frieda and the hidden animals NOMINATED FOR THE DUTCH SILVER CAMERA NEW MEDIA AWARD
0Together with singer/composer Frieda Gustavs, Leo Erken is working on his first virtual reality project. This project is for children. Frieda travels trough plants and trees in the park trying to find the hidden animals. With her we go into places no man has been before. How does it feel to dive into a ditch? How close can we get to a bee? Can we become friends with a mouse? ‘Alles om ons heen is daar…’ (Everything close is out there…) sings Frieda, but: ‘Is alles om ons heen wel waar?’ (Is everything around us for real?) Go and see…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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,…
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.