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The March – a new VR in progress.
nl12 | lab is currently working on The March a virtual reality on the culture of war. Expected autumn/winter 2024 …
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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…
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Een oude sollicitatiebrief…
Leo Erken, Amsterdam 17 augustus 2023. Het einde van mijn vakantietijd besteed ik met het herordenen van mijn digitale archief.…
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Frieda and the Hidden Animals
Frieda en het Ongedierte (Frieda and the Hidden Animals) are set free! Now on YouTube for everybody who has VR…
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Saving Photography
The title of this project surprised some people who have heard me using a similar phrase in a different context…
![Let us stop smothering the new generation with our nostalgia. – On art education – episode one.](https://i0.wp.com/www.nl12.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20140320_175250.jpg?resize=702%2C336&ssl=1)
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…
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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…
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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…
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Eva Besnyö – the choice collection
Leo Erken’s first television documentary about the great Dutch – Hungarian photographer Eva Besnyö (1910-2003).
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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…
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Expectations
Expectations is a never finishing story. (But the camera fell down and did not recover.) Between 2006 and 2015…