HANS EIJKELBOOM - EDDO HARTMANN
Cult Club Photography on Friday 26th October, 19.00
(Free admission)
Hans Eijkelboom
Photographer Hans Eijkelboom is known for his anthropological "street" photography. In his work he presents street portraits of seemingly different individual people, yet sharing one signature item such as a handbag, earphones or striped shirt. Eijkelboom records contemporary society reflected in metropolitan city streets and shows us the similarities between different people in a humoristic but critical way.
Eddo Hartmann
At OffPrint fair Amsterdam we presented the special edition of Eddo Hartmann: Here lives my home/Hier woont mijn huis.
This time we show, next to the special edition, the large size photographs from the edition. This serie of photographs is a visual documentation of an encounter with Hartmanns tormented childhood memories. On 15 March 2008, after twenty-one years, Eddo Hartmann stepped inside the rooms of his childhood once again and saw that, as he did so, everything and nothing had changed. Everything – because a thick layer of papers, folders, letters and books covered the floors, tables, sofas and chairs. Nothing – because under that layer everything was still intact, everything was standing or lying exactly as it did when his brother, his mother and he had left the place in haste on 17th October 1987.