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The Netherlands - Off the shelf
An unspectacle
Hans van der Meer
/ LAUNCH 2012
The Netherlands - Off The Shelf by photographer Hans van der Meer is a project about typically Dutch small towns such as: Lisse, Raalte, Drunen, Boskoop and Nieuw Vennep. Not big cities, not villages either. When we cross a border we enter a space where everything is done differently. We immediately recognise: this is a foreign country! Returning to the Netherlands, we also know in an instant when we are on homeland again. Wherever you go, the unique character of a country shows itself more clearly in small towns than in the big cities. In small towns France is more French, England is more English and Germany is more German.
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Indelible Images
Chile 73, Nicaragua 78, El Salvador 80
Koen Wessing
/ LAUNCH 2011
Koen Wessing's Indelible Images is a multi-platform project that shows Koen Wessing's coverage of the 1973 military coup in Chile and more of his Latin American work from the 1970s for the first time in Chile. The project is a collaboration between Dutch photographer Koen Wessing, filmmaker Kees Hin and curator/designer Jeroen de Vries. The exhibition is produced by Paradox.
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POPPY
Trails of Afghan Heroin
Robert Knoth / Antoinette de Jong
/ LAUNCH 2012
In the 21st century, globalisation has opened up the world for better or for worse. While we all celebrate the virtues and advantages of an open society, Poppy tells another story: of a world facing destabilisation as a result of multiple threats. POPPY follows the trails of Afghan heroin and uncovers the ever more complex patttern of our globalised world.
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OFFSIDE
Football in Exile
Dirk-Jan Visser / Arthur Huizinga
/ LAUNCH 2012
Offside is the story of FK Qarabağ Ağdam, an Azerbaijani football club in exile longing for an ill-fated return to their home ground in the ghost city of Adam. The city, built around the Imaret stadium, was occupied and destroyed as a result of the war on Nagorno-Karabakh between 1991 and 1993. FK Qarabağ Ağdam is still a sole remnant of the past and a living symbol of hope and pride for over half a million Azerbaijani refugees. As long as the name survives, and sounds in Europe, there is hope. In 2009 the team enjoyed an unprecedented run in the Europa League eventually stopped in Enschede (The Netherlands) by FC Twente.
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LOOK AT ME AND TELL ME IF YOU HAVE KNOWN ME BEFORE
Monica Nouwens
/ LAUNCH 2011/2012
Los Angeles - The sunlight fades and the twilight turns the city into an entrancing wonderland whose charm can disappear in the blink of an eye. With her project ‘Look At Me And Tell Me If You Have Known Me Before’ , Los Angeles-based Dutch photographer Monica Nouwens dedicated herself to portraying the ambivalent appeal of one of the world’s largest cities.
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Me We
A Tribute to Life
Koos Breukel
/ LAUNCH 2012
Me, We is Koos Breukel's magnus opus so far: a book and a show bringing together pictures from the first 30 years of his career representing the circle of life, combining intimate portraits of friends, artists and celebrities.
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VIA PANAM
A 40-week journey exploring migration in the Americas
Kadir van Lohuizen
/ LAUNCH MARCH 2011
Why do people migrate? Where to and for what reasons? What is the fate of the different indigenous populations in the Americas? In Via PanAm, Kadir van Lohuizen investigates the roots of migration in the Americas, a phenomenon which is as old as humanity but is increasingly portrayed as a new threat to the Western world. Traveling 28,000 km along the Pan-American Highway and crossing through 15 countries, Van Lohuizen visualizes the stories of the communities, regions and societies he encounters. His work reflects a diverse range of migration experiences both historic and contemporary.
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The Table of Power 2
Jacqueline Hassink
/ LAUNCH 2011
In the autumn of 2008, the start of the Great Recession, the economic situation in the world changed dramatically. This was the worst crisis since 1930.In the spring of 2009, Jacqueline Hassink came up with the idea of revisiting The Table of Power to look at Europe’s current economic landscape. It became her main motivation to see how the economic situation had changed 15 years after she first started the project.
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ANGRY
Young and Radical
/ LAUNCH 2011
Why does one teenager become a member of a nationalist action group, while the other frees mink from their cages deep in the night? Why does one turn out to be a train hijacker, while the other opts for a life as a peaceful, professional revolutionary?
Every young person gets angry sometimes. Rebellion seems inextricably linked to becoming an adult. In essence, it comes down to taking (over) responsibility for yourself and for the world you live in. Yet young activists are often dismissed as irresponsible “radicals”.
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TOKYO SYMPHONY
Elsken's "Unvollendete"
Ed van der Elsken
/ LAUNCH 2010
Within the last years of his life Van der Elsken worked towards what should have become his magnum opus in audiovisual terms, Tokyo Symphony. This audiovisual installation was meant to be the ultimate tribute to Japan. Due to his untimely death, at the age of 60, he was never able to finish it. Only 1,600 slides remained of this ambition in the archives of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. That was until researcher Frank Ortmanns (b. 1977) discovered the audio recordings in 2007.
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WE ARE THE WORLD
/ LAUNCH 2009
WATW is short for We Are The World. The song (written by Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson) was originally written for a 1985 campaign against famine in Ethiopia, later hijacked for a multitude of other purposes, focusing on issues of solidarity as well as mutual responsibility. In the framework of this 2009/2010 travelling exhibition, a collaboration between the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, CN) and Paradox (Edam, NL), it is referring to the latter notion: common responsibility for the highly complex, culturally, economically and socially interrelated world we are living in, as is observed in the work of the 14 artists/photographers from China and the Netherlands.
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SPECTATOR
Theo Niekus
/ LAUNCH 2009
Paradox and Amsterdam based photographer Theo Niekus have teamed up for the travelling installation Spectator. In Spectator, for which Niekus portrays Amsterdam’s consuming inhabitants, the installation reflects the fast-paced and inescapable life of Amsterdam as a consumer’s urban hunting ground. It plays with the illusions of the omnipresent observer and the observed. The viewer becomes immersed in the roleplay about consumerism, public regulations, urban life and daily curiosities by means of image and sound.
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OCCUPATION: SOLDIER
Ad van Denderen
/ LAUNCH 2009
For their annual photo commission, Document Nederland, the Rijksmuseum and NRC Handelsblad newspaper asked photographer Ad van Denderen to give the Dutch peace missions a face. Van Denderen followed recruits during their training in the Netherlands and on their often dangerous missions in Chad and Afghanistan. But he also turned his lens on the home front: family members waving their partners, sons and daughters goodbye at the airport, recording a Christmas video message in a studio, mourning at a memorial service.
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MULTIVOCAL HISTORIES
/ LAUNCH 2009
For the 2009 Noorderlicht Fotofestival in Groningen, The Netherlands, entitled Human Conditions Bas Vroege was invited to curate an exhibition. The resulting Multivocal Histories shows selected examples from a current in documentary photography in which the photographer not only uses his or her own work, but also draws on other sources including texts and images by third parties. These are often long-running projects for which the photographer also assumes the role of curator or visual historian, or works together closely with a curator and one or more other image makers or experts.
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THE LAST DAYS OF SHISHMAREF
DANA LIXENBERG / JAN LOUTER
/ LAUNCH 2008
Shishmaref is an Inupiaq Eskimo community on an island in the far northwest corner of Alaska. Their native land is threatened by the sea as a result of global warming. The 600 inhabitants will be forced to relocate to the mainland within ten years. They may be considered the first community of climate refugees. The project The Last Days of Shishmaref documents this drama by a traveling exhibition, a project website, a photobook and a feature-length documentary film. To filmmaker Jan Louter and photographer Dana Lixenberg, the climate functioned as a backdrop for the histories of people, of a community, of a life in all its paradoxical intricacies. The impression their images leaves yields more questions than answers: questions about identity, dignity, transience and mortality.
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SO BLUE SO BLUE
Ad van Denderen
/ LAUNCH 2008
In So Blue So Blue, the Dutch documentary photographer Ad van Denderen sketches a very different picture of the region around the Mediterranean from that of sun-drenched beaches, charming hotels, lively discos and azure sea. Between 2003 and 2008, Ad van Denderen travelled regularly through the 17 countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. This immense area is under a huge amount of pressure from the fast-growing tourism industry and the political, cultural and religious tensions that the geopolitical location brings with it. Africa, Asia and Europe, Christianity and Islam, rich and poor all come together here.
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North Holland Biennale 2008
NH Verdwijnt
Various artists
/ LAUNCH 2008
The North Holland Biennale 2008 dealt with the changing landscape of North Holland. Following an intensive media campaign NH DISSAPEARS this biannual event featured work by contemporary designers, architects, visual artists and photographers on the subject of (the disappearing) landscape.
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FIVE STORIES / VIJF VERHALEN
Anastasia Khoroshilova
/ LAUNCH 2007
In 1697 the Russian czar Peter the Great, 25 years old at the time, visited The Netherlands. He worked at a number of shipyards in and around Amsterdam in order to learn about modern shipbuilding. In 2007 Anastasia Khoroshilova, a russian photographer trained in Germany, 28 years of age, visited The Netherlands and tried to retrieve the atmosphere and working conditions the czar must have experienced. In Amsterdam, Edam, Monnickendam and Zaandam she portrayed the people working at five historic Shipyards, as well as the tools and machinery with which they work.
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GREENHOUSE
Xavier Ribas
/ LAUNCH 2007
The Wieringermeer polder, some 60 kms North of Amsterdam, was drained in the 1930s. The carefully planned landscape's face is changing rapidly today, mainly due to the industrialisation of agriculture. Greenhouse is an installation about the building site of a greenhouse the corporation Agriport is building some 70 kms North of Amsterdam. In front of the greenhouse still stand the three old farms on which land this new structure is being built. The installation is manifesting this clash between industrial allotment and cultural history in an audio visual arrangement.
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THE WARS
(De Oorlogen)
Oscar van Alphen
/ LAUNCH 2006
The Wars is a restored version of the projection that was part of the 1984-1985 installation De Oorlogen. Combining still and moving images, set to a voice-over, it was originally projected (using 6 slide projectors and a 16mm film projector) in a space also displaying photographic prints. The 2006 restoration has digitally scanned and re-mastered the visuals, and created an English language version of the original Dutch soundtrack to create a single screen version of the piece.
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EUROPEAN FIELDS
HANS VAN DER MEER
/ LAUNCH 2006
The work is as much about landscape as it is about culture at large. Amateur football turns out to be the perfect metaphor for life in general. With a mild irony, Van der Meer shows us the mismatch between human ambition and the effective result, between an individual’s ‘inside’ perception and a more objective, distanced view of our behaviour.
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WHY MISTER, WHY?
Geert van Kesteren
/ LAUNCH 2004
Why Mister, Why? is a multimedia presentation of the groundbreaking document on the aftermath of the Iraq war by Dutch photojournalist Geert van Kesteren. Van Kesteren was awarded the third prize in Spot News stories at World Press Photo 2005 for this series.
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i(p+r)/n
WORK [Changing Faces]
/ LAUNCH 2004
The International Photography Research Network is an organisation of collaborating institutions dealing with photography, varying from museums to art schools and universities. IPRN was established in 2004 as an initiative of the University of Sunderland (UK) with founding partners in Germany (Museum Folkswang and University of Essen), Slovakia (Dom Fotografie), Finland (University of Jyvaskyla) and the Netherlands (Paradox and University of Leiden). Changing Faces was a three-year IPRN programe focusing on the visualisation of important changes happening in the context of socio-historical and cultural changes arising from the expansion of the European Union. Work was chosen as an overall title for a programme of fellowships because it accords with the wider intentions of the IPRN to interact with the social and economic structures of the expanded European Union and look at the idea of work within a rapidly developing European context and an increasingly globalised world market place.
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BRITANYA
Marjoleine Boonstra
/ LAUNCH 2003
Britanya was shot early in 2003 in Sangatte, the North French coastal town near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel. The controversial refugee centre there closed its doors December 2, 2002. In Britanya the now shelterless refugees have their chance to speak. As in her previous, award-winning film Sa Nule (1996), Boonstra (1959) places her characters in front of a mirror and asks them to describe their own lives. That yields unusually penetrating images and judgements.
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GO NO GO
Ad van Denderen
/ LAUNCH 2003
Immigration was a leitmotif in the work of photographer Ad van Denderen long before European politics and media began to concentrate on the subject. For thirteen years Van Denderen travelled along what later came to be called the Schengen borders. His goal: to give anonymous people a face.
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EXPERIENCE
Foto Biënnale Rotterdam V
/ LAUNCH 2003
Today's reality consists of an overwhelming visual culture. Visual artists develop various strategies and technique trying to get through to the targeted audience. Remarkably, trends in mass media are completely in line with the trends in art. Never before has this mutual influence been as strong as it is today. The Foto Biënnale Rotterdam (FBR)has, for the first time ever, grouped current developments in diverse fields of expertise under one umbrella theme: EXPERIENCE. Featuring from sculptures and photography to film and commercial advertisements. The question at hand is: what are the requirements contemporary statements have to meet to really achieve their objective?
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AY DIOS
Diana Blok
/ LAUNCH 2002
"Ay Dios" (literally, "Oh, God") is a characteristic lament of Antilleans. In the combination of the meaning of the words and the way in which they are spoken resides an impalpable but also specific form of resignation, the realisation of not being able to determine (or at least fully determine) one's own fate. As a part of an exchange project with the Antilles, set up by the Centre for Visual Arts in Rotterdam, photographer Diana Blok stayed for a number of months in Curaçao.This was translated into images of a Curaçao that we really don't know: of intimacy, intense contact with people, and of spirituality. These alternate with harder, more documentary images that visualize the social realities.
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>PLAY
Carel van Hees
/ LAUNCH 2001
>Play is about what it is to be young, anywhere and in all eras. For three years photographer Carel van Hees turned his camera on the youth of Rotterdam. He focused on their character, their aura and energy by following them in their everyday activities, chatting on the street, hanging around with friends, dancing, skating, playing sports etc.
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EAST WIND WEST WIND
Bertien van Manen
/ LAUNCH 2001
Fascinated by the cultural changes in contemporary China, Bertien van Manen travelled to China fourteen times between July, 1997, and May, 2000. In her characteristically subtle and sensitive manner, Bertien van Manen produced a personal reportage on China as she saw it: a world of contradictions, a mingling of urban and rural culture, against a communist background.
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P'REND
Image of the growing city
Various Artists
/ LAUNCH 2001
What does life look like in the XXI Dutch VINEX district? In the postwar urban developments the city of Purmrend, served is a model for many Dutch municipalities. Five photographers were commisioned by the Museum Waterland to create works that explores the actual and personal image of this urban growth phenomenon.
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DUTCH FIELDS
Hans van der Meer
/ LAUNCH 2000
Instead of the dynamics, action and drama of professional football, the Dutch photographer Hans van der Meer shows the random football fields. These are not the homes of football association teams playing in sports complexes with well-drained fields built by the community, but those accidental, cosy pitches out among the pastures, or, on the contrary, in the middle of some old urban neighbourhood, pitches surrounded with rows of poplars or with a drainage ditch next to them, with a plank laid over it as a bridge. Van der Meer’s soccer pictures are a cross between landscape photography and mild yet humorous observations of human frailty.
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City Bikes / Stadsfietsen
Various artists
/ LAUNCH 2000
"Stadsfietsen" provides playful insights into daily life in two cosmopolitan cities, Amsterdam and Beijing. The perspective for this introduction is the bicycle. In both places a much-loved, much used and often abused mode of transport. Modern Amsterdam is brought into focus by three Chinese photographers, while a quartet of Dutch photographers highlights modern Beijing.
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AVATAR
Of Postmodern Times and Multiple Identities
VARIOUS ARTISTS
/ LAUNCH 1998
Avatar was organized in 1998 by Axis, Bureau for the Arts V/M and Paradox and curated by Deanna Herst and Bas Vroege. The programme, consisting of an exhibition, a symposium and screenings, adressed the issue of the multiple personality.
Photography, video, installations and new media-projects were shown from May 29-June14 in De Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. In a symposium in De Balie.
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Long Live Me!
(Leve ik!)
Ed van der Elsken
/ LAUNCH 1996
An exhibition of Hollands' best known street-photographer that examines the relationship between his photographs and films, which are less well-known. Van der Elsken found the majority of his subjects in the working class neighbourhoods of large cosmopolitan cities: Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Tokyo. Along with explicitly theatrical, extroverted images, one also finds countless quiet and heartrending scenes throughout his work which bear witness to a poetic disposition and to a feeling of sympathy and solidarity with people, and on occasion with animals as well.
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PARADOX creates projects in photography, video and media related arts. The interaction between social, economic and technological change is central to most thematic and
monographic projects developed. PARADOX’ activities include travelling exhibitions, film production, book and electronic publishing and organising workshops and symposiums.
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WATW 天下一家 book available now
WATW 天下一家 Post Editions, 284 pages, isbn: 978-94608-30204, € 35,00 (Europe), € 37,50 (outside Europe). For orders visit the Post Editions webshop : www.post-editions.com For more information on distribution and availability: mail@post-editions.com
OCCUPATION: SOLDIER signed copies now available!
Ad van Denderen – Paradox offers exclusive signed copies of Occupation: Soldier (2009) € 30 The Netherlands / € 35 Europe (incl. VAT + postage) / € 40 rest of the world (incl. VAT + postage). Also available by Ad van Denderen: Go No Go - Frontiers Of Europe (2003) € 45 order by sending an email to info@paradox.nl
Book The Last Days of Shishmaref
Dana Lixenberg | 208 color pages | Paperback | 22 x 16,5 cm | Paradox/post editions, 2008. Order at info@paradox.nl NL €35 | EU €40 | WORLD €52.50 or visit the webshop www.post-editions.com | ISBN 978-9059731-110 (Dutch edition) | ISBN 978-9059731-103 (English edition)
Special Edition book + print by Dana Lixenberg
Photo: Teddy Sockpick | Inktjetprint | 23 x 30 cm | print run 100. Price for print and book: € 195.00 (incl.VAT and shipping). To order this special edition, mail to mail@post-editions.com .
MORE PARADOX PUBLICATIONS
Xavier Ribas - Greenhouse SD-DVD € 25 | Oscar van Alphen - The Wars (2006) DVD € 25 | Lewis Baltz – The Deaths In Newport (1995) CD-ROM € 25
Publications can be ordered from Paradox at the prices indicated (incl. VAT + postage). The items will be sent upon receipt of payment to IBAN account no. NL62AB-NA0501434445 - BIC/SWIFT ABNANL2A.
ALSO AVAILABLE: Ad van Denderen - So Blue, So Blue - Edges of The Mediterranean (Steidl, 2008) € 35. Order at www.steidlville.com/books
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