2023: Book publication "Ernst Haas: Letters And Stories" by Inge Bondi (USA); research and writing associate. Publisher Damiani, Italy

The forthcoming book "Ernst Haas: Letters And Stories" by publisher Damiani, Italy, is a book that is very dear to me. It has been written by my friend Inge Bondi (Berlin, 1925) and over the course of the past ten years I have had the honour to assist Inge as a research and writing associate. It led me on many extended stays in her home in Princeton, NJ, and on a journey of history, poetry, photography and friendship.

Release date in USA and World Wide: October 2023

Website publisher: https://www.damianibooks.com/en/products/6208805

Inge Bondi joined Magnum Photos in 1950 and eventually became the director of special projects and the only non-photographer with stock and voting rights in the famed photography co-operative. After leaving Magnum in 1970, she became an author and educator on photography. In recent years she has been working on this book.

2022-2023: Huis Marseille for Photography, Amsterdam (NL); guest curator of photography

Working as a guest curator of photography on the retrospective exhibition of the Spanish photographer Carlos Pérez Siquier (1930-2021), titled Colours and Contrasts of Spain.

This traveling exhibition is created by Fundación MAPFRE, by Carlos Gollonet (chief curator of photography at MAPFRE) and the independent curator Carlos Martín. The show will open on March 25, 2023.

website: https://huismarseille.nl/en/exhibitions/perez-siquier/

2022: Dialogue Vintage Photography Fair, Amsterdam (NL); guest curator of the lecture program

In 2022 I curated the lecture program for the annual vintage photography fair Dialogue. The theme was Private Eye, about the search for new perspectives on historical photography. Hosted by Saskia Asser and Rixt Bosma.

The program:

Fact and fiction
For some years now, Spaarnestad Photo has been looking for collaborations with young artists that lead to interesting results at the intersection of fact and fiction. Director Ellen Dosse talks to Saskia Asser about how students of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague delve into the Spaarnestad Photo archives and give new meaning to old (press) photos.

Genealogy and family portraits
Peter Eyckerman is a professional genealogist with a specialism in historical photography. How can you learn about your ancestors by looking at family photos? Using examples, he will talk about his research, the methods and techniques of family tree research and how these play a role in the identification of old photo portraits. Afterwards, Peter Eyckerman will hold a walk-in consultation hour until 2 pm. You are welcome to bring your own family portraits.

Clara von Waldthausen & Bert Teunissen: photo paper
Photographer Bert Teunissen collected photo paper for years. He bought old batches from individuals, and searched the web and on trips (including to factories in Croatia) for the remnants of the era of analog photography. His collection is a unique source, which he partly uses to print his own photos. In conversation with art historian and photo restorer Clara von Waldthausen, they dive into the unexposed paper together, explore its qualities and discuss this material at the intersection of science and art.

Case Study: the Jewish girl in Nico Jesse's photo
Historical researchers Jim Terlingen and Victor Frederik from Utrecht discovered the identity of a Jewish girl in a well-known photo of Nico Jesse, 80 years after it was taken. In 1942, street photographer Jesse was commissioned by the municipality of Utrecht to capture street scenes. In the Agnietenstraat he photographed three girls with Jewish stars on their clothes. The photo, which became much publicized over the years, captivated Jim Terlingen and Victor Frederik. They talk about their successful search for the identity of the girl.

Presentation Hans Aarsman
Photographer, writer, photo editor, theater maker and self-proclaimed photo detective Hans Aarsman gives a lecture with light images. “What am I actually seeing?” is the question Aarsman asks himself time and again. As a now renowned photo detective, he dissects photography in an original way and takes the public on a journey through his detective work and fieldwork in his columns, books and plays.

New York City 1840-1870: Daguerreotype Studios and Georeferencing
In a conversation with Rixt Bosma, the American photo historian and collector Jeremy Rowe talks about the development of the earliest photo studios in New York. Rowe is a great expert on 19th century American photography and in this project he uses daguerreotypes from his own collection and information from city archives to investigate the activity in Manhattan between 1840 and 1870. Georeferencing brings together historical maps and geographical data from the photo studios and shines a new light on business economic, social and urban developments.

The conversation with Jeremy Rowe takes place via a live video connection. Rixt Bosma is present in person.

Photo research in the 21st Century: Artificial Intelligence
Art historian and photography specialist Annika Hendriksen (currently information developer at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) discusses with Saskia Asser the application of Artificial Intelligence to image collections. What is A.I.? And what can it mean for opening up photography collections? After a short general introduction, Annika Hendriksen and Saskia Asser dive into the computer-assisted observations and give examples of the first results of A.I. and natural history collections. Are we going to look differently at butterflies, cone snails and ray eggs?

website: https://www.dialoguevintagephotography.com

2020-2021: Jewish History Museum, Amsterdam (NL); curator of photography, co-curator of the Fred Stein photography exhibition

Working as a guest curator of photography with Bernadette van Woerkom (senior curator of photography at the Jewish History Museum) on the retrospective exhibition of the jewish German-American photographer Fred Stein (Dresden 1909 - New York City 1967). The exhibition is shown from July 9 until November 7, 2021 at the Jewish Museum.

Museum website https://jck.nl/en

2019-2020: Academie voor Beeldcreatie, de Fotovakschool, Rotterdam (NL); lecturer in Art History and Research Skills for Photography students (Higher Vocational Education)

Teaching Modern Art History (c. 1880-1980) to first-year students and teaching the basics for creating the structure for a scholarly thesis, including the initial phase of defining the research subject and structuring the research questions.

2019: Research and writing associate with Inge Bondi, Princeton NJ (USA) on her manuscript about Ernst Haas.

Fall visit with Mrs. Inge Bondi in Princeton, to collaborate as a photo history researcher and writer on her biography of Magnum photographer Ernst Haas with the working title Ernst Haas: Letters and Stories. Mrs. Inge Bondi, (b. 1925) has been stockholder and manager special projects at the New York Magnum Photos office between 1950 and 1970.

2019: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (City Archives); substitute junior curator of photography.

Substitute for four months leave of the junior curator of photography. Main project is requesting loans and reproduction rights for the upcoming exhibition and photo book Photo and Film 1920-1940 (work title). The exhibition is expected to open on October 10, 2019 in the Stadsarchief Amsterdam.

Website www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief/

2019: Delft University Student Association, Delft (NL); photography archive consultant.

Consultation regarding the future placement of the photo archive of the Delftsch Studenten Corps (a student association erected in 1877) in the municipal archives of Delft. I'm advising on a structured work plan that entails the creation of a (digital) inventory and digitisation of original materials.

2018: Curator of Reflections on Two-Of-A-Kinds: The Historic Photography Collection of DOUBLES, a photography exhibition and book (in preparation)

Reflections on Two-Of-A-Kinds: The Historic Photography Collection of DOUBLES is a collaboration with photographer Dan Budnik (Arizona, USA). The DOUBLES is a carefully curated photography collection by Budnik of hundreds historic photographic doubles (ca. 1850-1960). Budnik started collecting in the 1970s. The collection has been gifted to me in 2017.

The DOUBLES tell the story of the unique and longstanding partnership of two photographic prints (from the same negative), of their individual AND shared history. Comparing the doubles reveal real and imagined histories, therefore this project has the potential not only to be embedded in a history of early photographic practice and photo conservation, but to also speak to one's imagination and poetic aesthetics.

2018: University College Cork (Ireland): Lecture at international conference, titled Reflections on Two-Of-A-Kinds: The Historic Photography Collection of DOUBLES.

Lecture Reflections on Two-Of-A-Kinds: The Historic Photography Collection of DOUBLES given at the international conference: All Things Considered... Material Culture and Memory, organised by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), Memory, Commemoration and the Uses of the Past research cluster; Departments of French and Italian, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork, November 9-10, 2018.

Website http://casilac.ie/cfp-all-things-considered-material-culture-and-memory/

2018: Photographer Marie-Jose Jongerius, Amsterdam; author of text

Author of the text that Jongerius is using to explain and promote her forthcoming photography project Nocturnal.

Please see her website www.mariejosejongerius.com

2018: Private commission (NL): drawing a cartoon portrait

Cartoon portrait in pencil, ink and water color. The drawing was made into a jigsaw puzzle as a gift for a family member of the commissioner.

2018: Photo Archive Consultant at Shell Historic Archives, Shell International B.V., The Hague (NL)

Consultant for the Royal Dutch Shell Historical Heritage Collection - the corporate archive since the early 1900s. Work included selecting key works and photo historical research into the photographic techniques and provenance.

2018: Stedelijk Museum Breda (NL), curatorial department; guest curator

Guest curator for photography exhibition about Arthur Klep, photographer from Breda (project has been postponed in March 2018)

2016-2020: Agent for photographer Dan Budnik (Arizona, USA)

Handling licensing requests and reproduction rights for publications of the photography by Dan Budnik (1933-2020). Website www.danbudnik.com

2010-present: Photo Archive Consultant and Archivist; Dan Budnik - photographer (Arizona, USA)

Since 2010 I have been working on many extended visits to the USA with American photographer Dan Budnik (1933-2020) on his photo archive. The archiving process with Budnik includes the recording of oral histories, documenting biographical data, and contributing to special projects, like the book Marching To The Freedom Dream (Trolley Books, London 2014), with photographs of three seminal Civil Rights Marches 1958-1965. His oeuvre includes portraits of American Abstract Expressionist artists like David Smith, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, Philip Guston and many others; The Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961; Native Americans (most notably Hopi and Navaho) and their human rights and ecological issues.

Website www.danbudnik.com

2009-present: Annual residencies with Mrs. Inge Bondi, Princeton NJ (USA)

Annual residencies with Mrs. Inge Bondi, Princeton NJ (USA), to collaborate as a photo history researcher and writer on her biography of Magnum photographer Ernst Haas. Mrs. Inge Bondi, (b. 1925) was stockholder and manager special projects at the New York Magnum office between 1950 and 1970. Mrs. Bondi was a visionary in the golden age of photojournalism.

2017: Project initiation for Stichting Academisch Erfgoed (SAE), Amsterdam (NL): the Lichtbeelden project about historic photographic glass slides in academic context in the Netherlands.

Defining goals and objectives for the Lichtbeelden project about historic glass slides (1880s to 1950s) used for education in Dutch academic collections. This SAE project will result in the first inventory of all historic glass slides at Dutch universities, accompanied by photo historical research and a book publication.

More information about the SAE: www.academischerfgoed.nl/

2017: Photo Archive Consultant at Shell Historic Archives, Shell International B.V., The Hague (NL)

Consultant for the Royal Dutch Shell Historical Heritage Collection - the corporate archive since the early 1900s. Work included selecting key works and photo historical research into the photographic techniques and provenance.

2016-2017: Substitute Curator of Photography, Leiden University Library, Special Collections Dept., Leiden (NL)

Curator of Photography during the period of (partial) study leave of curator of photography Maartje van den Heuvel (MA).

http://www.bibliotheek.leidenuniv.nl/bijzondere-collecties/fotografie/

2016-2017: Photo Archive Consultant for ABN AMRO BANK Art and History Foundation, Almere (NL)

The third-largest bank in the Netherlands, ABN AMRO, has a long history of mergers and acquisitions that date back to 1765. The Art and History Foundation was created to maintain, manage and develop the ABN AMRO collection of art and historical objects. The collection of photography (that consists of prints, negatives, slides and photo albums) is in need for a new long term plan, which I will develop with the archivists of the collection.

2016: Photo historical research for Stichting Academisch Erfgoed (SAE), Amsterdam (NL): project about historic lantern slides and glass slides in academic context

Creating the inventory and contextualization of historic lantern slides and glass slides (1880s to 1950s) used for education in Dutch academic collections. Results will support fund raising by the SAE for the continuation of the project, and ideas for a book, possibly an exhibit and events.

More information about the SAE: www.academischerfgoed.nl/

2016: Registrar Photo Collection at Shell Historic Archives, Shell International B.V., The Hague

Creating the inventory of historic photo albums and photography at Royal Dutch Shell Historic Archive - the company's archive consisting of documents and photographs, since the early 1900s.

2016-2017: Research, (pre)production and filming for documentary film about photographer Dan Budnik, USA

With co-director Sofie Olsen. Research, interviews and filming with Dan Budnik in Northern Arizona and Maui, Hawaii (2016); Tucson, Arizona (2017).

More information about the photography by Sofie Olsen: www.sofieolsen.com

2016: Co-curator for the photo exhibition "Koninklijke foto's door Vincent Mentzel" (Royal Photos by Vincent Mentzel) at Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn (NL), former royal residence of the House of Orange Nassau. Photo historical research, image selections and writing texts for the exhibition.

From 1 April until 21 August 2016, Paleis Het Loo will be showing the exhibition "Royal Photos by Vincent Mentzel", featuring some of the finest pictures of the Royal Family made by renowned Dutch photojournalist Vincent Mentzel. Throughout his 40-year career as photojournalist for the Dutch quality daily paper NRC Handelsblad, Mentzel was able to work in often close proximity to the family. His photographs are characterized by an informal, sometimes even frivolous, yet always respectful approach. Mentzel's work gives a striking time-line of the Netherlands and the life of the House of Orange under Queen Beatrix.

www.paleishetloo.nl/en/

2015: Registrar Photo Collection; Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed - Amersfoort (NL), collection of photographs made during the production of the 1980s televized documentary "Nederlanders Overzee" (The Dutch Overseas), by Jan Dorresteijn.

Registration and creation of detailed descriptions of the digitized collection of colour transparencies by filmmaker Jan Dorresteijn. The photographs show the remaining architecture and structures of the Dutch (colonial) presence in the West Indies and East Indies in the 16th and 17th century. 14 Episodes of the documentary film were produced by Veronica and broadcasted in 1983-1986. This digitized photo collection is to be published in the online digital catalogue of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.

http://beeldbank.cultureelerfgoed.nl
www.nederlandersoverzee.nl/

2015: Registrar Photo Collection at Shell Historic Archives, Shell International B.V., The Hague

Creating the inventory of historic photo albums and photography at Royal Dutch Shell Historic Archive - the company's archive consisting of documents and photographs, since the early 1900s.

2014: Photo historical research and writing of texts for the exhibition "Blikvangers" ("Eye-catchers") at the National Archives, The Hague

Photo historical research for the exhibition "Blikvangers", the first photography exhibition in the National Archives, showing - for the first time - highlights from their collection of 15 million photographs. With work from Alexine Tinne, Robert Capa, Eva Besnyo, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Cas Oorthuys and Ed van der Elsken (19 February - 12 June, 2015 - The Hague).

2013-2014: Photo historic research and writing at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (NL). Subject of study: 40 Years of Annual Photography Commissions of the Rijksmuseum, since 1975

My essay is published as a book in the series Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography, and is supported by the Manfred and Hanna Heiting Scholarship.

Please read about the publication details in the Books section of my site:
Document Nederland book (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2017)

I have previously written the study Photography and Film: Robert Capa, Joris Ivens and John Fernhout in China, 1938, published in 2011 in the same series.

2014: Registrar Photo Collection; Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed - Amersfoort (NL), collection photographs of architectural and cultural heritage in the Dutch Overseas on three continents, by Dutch architect and historian Mr. C.L. Temminck Groll

Registration of and adding detailed descriptions to the digitized collection of negatives and transparencies made by the architect and historian Coenraad Liebrecht Temminck Groll, at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed). Temminck Groll (b. 1925) extensively studied and photographed architectural heritage in the Dutch overseas. Among his publications is The Dutch Overseas. Architectural survey. Mutual heritage of four centuries in three continents, Zwolle (NL) 2002. This digitized collection with descriptions is to be published in the online digital catalogue of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.

2013: Photo editor; Waldemar Produkties (Rotterdam, NL)

In June 2013 I have selected and scanned images for a future documentary about the Royal Dutch Airforce in the period of the Cold War, to be directed and produced by Waldemar Produkties.

www.waldemarprodukties.nl

2013: Freelancer at Jocadeau.nl

In the Spring of 2013, I have connected with Jocadeau.nl. A gift certificate will be available on www.jocadeau.nl (Dutch only) for my two services as a photo historian: personalized tours in photography exhibits and the archiving of family photographs.

2011-2012: Registrar ethnographic photo collection; Nederlands fotomuseum (Rotterdam, NL)

Registrar for the ethnographic photography collection of the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam, which will be moved to the depots of the Nederlands fotomuseum in 2012.

2011: Writing; articles for "Objects in Mirror. The Imagination of the American Landscape", edited by Hans Gremmen (Amsterdam, NL)

Author of two articles for this book that was published in March 2012: "Tourism, landscape and photography pioneers: the Kolb brothers' photo studio in Grand Canyon National Park" and "Behind the Ken Burns effect: an interview with Ken Burns".

Please see my Books section on my site for publication details: "Objects in Mirror".

About initiator and designer Hans Gremmen and the book:
http://www.hansgremmen.nl/demo-item/show/id/786

2010-2012: Photo historical research; Leiden University, Special Collections (Leiden, NL)

Creating detailed descriptions of a collection of approx. 300 photo albums with 19th and early 20th century travel photography, for the digitization project Het Geheugen van Nederland.


Please see the section on Het Geheugen van Nederland about Leiden University Special Collections:
www.geheugenvannederland.nl/nl/geheugen/pages/instelling/Bijzondere+Collecties+Leiden"

2010: Writing; Wim Lamboo, portrait and documentary photographer (Leiden, NL)

Writing the introduction for Women of Tallinn. Portraits of Estonian Women 2007-2010 by Wim Lamboo (publisher Kunst, Tallinn 2010); the photo book is part of the exhibition Women of Tallinn, Vabaduse Gallery, Tallinn, 30 September-20 October 2010.
www.wimlamboo.nl

2010: completed the specialized training "Determining of Historic Photographic Processes" at Leiden University, Special Collections (Leiden, NL)

This training enabled the participants to gain expertise in the field of historic photographic processes. It dealt with the history and technique of photographic and photomechanical reproduction; from the unique processes like the Daguerrotype to photomechanical color printing and from salted paper prints to contemporary inkjet prints... The training consisted of seven days of both theory and hands-on experience with historic prints and negatives from Special Collections of Leiden University. Herman Maes, senior conservator at the Nederlands fotomuseum in Rotterdam, was teaching.

2010: Presentation at Pictura Imaginis & Pictura Database Publishing (Heiloo, NL)

Research and presentation for Pictura staff members on online image databases and the use of historical context. Pictura works for the cultural heritage sector in digitizing its (image) archives and collections.
www.pictura-im.nl

2010: Basic photo conservation; Leiden University, Special Collections & Restauration dept. (Leiden, NL)

Cleaning, wrapping and numbering a collection of glass negatives by a German physical anthropologist, made in Malaysia and other countries, late 19th and early 20th century.

2009: Photo historical research; independent researcher and writer Inge Bondi (Princeton, NJ, USA), on the biography of photographer Ernst Haas

Assisting with the biography of Magnum photographer Ernst Haas, a work in progress by Inge Bondi, who has worked as a staff member & manager of special projects with Magnum Photos, New York office from 1950 until 1970. The collaboration included a two months work visit in Princeton in Fall 2009.
Ernst Haas estate: www.ernst-haas.com

2009: Researcher and interviewer; Magnum Foundation (New York, NY, USA)

Researcher and interviewer for Magnum Time project that deals with the oral history of both photographers and staff members of Magnum Photos and archival preservation of their archives. My contribution was a video interview with Inge Bondi, (b. 1925) staff member of the New York Magnum office and manager special projects, between 1950 and 1970.
www.magnumfoundation.org

2008-2009: Essay Photography and Film: Robert Capa, Joris Ivens and John Fernhout in China, 1938, with Manfred and Hanna Heiting Scholarship, Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (NL)

Photo historical research; resulted in the essay on Photography and Film: Robert Capa, Joris Ivens and John Fernhout in China, 1938. It will be published as a book in the series Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography. Printed in 2011, see "book".

2004-2009: Production assistant; Waldemar Produkties (Rotterdam, NL)

Production assistant for the DVD series The Dutch Royal Airforce in the Cold War era. Since the first DVD in 2005 on the Lockheed F104G Starfighter, 6 episodes have been published on DVD.
www.waldemarprodukties.nl

2008: Photo & video editor; Wim Lamboo, portrait and documentary photographer (Leiden, NL)

Photo editor and producer the audiovisual production Women of Tallinn, shown in the Vabaduse Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia.
www.wimlamboo.nl

2007-2008: Art historical research; Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (The Hague, NL)

Creating inventory and catalogue of the photography collection; included the writing of the biographies of the 50 photographers whose work is in the collection.

2006-2008: Editor; PhotoQ foundation (Amsterdam, NL)

Editor of Dutch national online photography agenda Photostart.nl. The website merged into the Dutch photography news and community website www.photoq.nl in 2010.

2007: Project manager; Geert van Kesteren Photojournalism (Amsterdam, NL)

Project management for Geert van Kesteren's international documentary photography projects, e.g. Why Mister, Why? Iraq 2003-2004; Baghdad Calling: reports from Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Iraq; Aids in Zambia; Document Nederland: Schraal (Hidden poverty in the Netherlands); Magnum in Motion with Magnum Photos. Projects included the production of audiovisual content and travelling exhibitions.
www.geertvankesteren.com
www.baghdadcalling.nl

2004-2006: Project manager; PARADOX foundation (Edam, NL)

Project manager of international travelling photography exhibitions, book publications and project-related websites, e.g. Why Mister, Why? Iraq 2003-2004 by Geert van Kesteren; Go No Go-The Frontiers of Europe by Ad van Denderen; the reconstruction and restauration of the audiovisual installation De Oorlogen/The Wars by Oscar van Alphen; Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History by Susan Meiselas.
www.paradox.nl