Hans Aarsman

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Hans Aarsman
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Born1951 (age 7172)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Website hansaarsman.nl

Hans Aarsman (born 27 December 1951) [1] is a Dutch photographer, author, and lecturer at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Many of Aarsman's works are held in the collection of the Netherlands Photo Museum as well as the Rijksmuseum and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. [1] [2] [3]

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Life and work

Aarsman was born in 1951 in Amsterdam. [1] He started his career as a photojournalist for the Dutch newspaper Trouw. In 1989 he published the book Hollandse Taferelen which consisted of landscapes photographed from the roof of a camper which he pulled through the Netherlands for a year. In 1990–1991 he finished a photo series of East German states.

As of 2004 he was an editor of the magazine Useful Photography. [4] He exhibited work at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in Arles, France in 2011.

Aarsman also is a novelist and playwright. His debut literary work was Twee hoofden, een kussen (1995) and more recently[ when? ] he has been dedicating himself more to writing than photography.

Publications

Photography

Literature

Collections

Aarsman's work is held in the following permanent collections:

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