Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen: The Europeans

SAT 21 SEPT — 13.00 - 14.00 / Location: Leidinghuis

Five years after The Sochi Project, Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen together with designers Kummer & Herrman, start up a new multi-year project titled The Europeans, loosely inspired by Henri Cartier Bresson's book from 1955. During Unseen Amsterdam they will be unfolding their research, publishing plans and doubts leading up to an official launch of the project in 2020.

Rob Hornstra (b. 1975, NL) is a photographer of predominantly long-term documentary projects, both at home and around the world. He has published several books of solo work, produced documentary series for a variety of international magazines, and taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. In 2009, Hornstra and writer/filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen started The Sochi Project, culminating in the retrospective book An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus and an exhibition that toured Europe, America, India and Canada. He is the founder and former artistic director of FOTODOK – Space for Documentary Photography. Four times per year he runs a popular live talk show about photobooks in his home town Utrecht. He is head of the photography department at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.

Arnold van Bruggen (b. 1979, NL) is a writer and filmmaker fascinated by how the bigger movements and stories in history affect everyday life. From that background, he created stories including the documentaries The Russian War and The Sochi Project. In many projects, he experiments with new story formats in which film, exhibition, web and Arnolds favourite publication format - the book - are combined.