About
"Re-discovering the romance of the hills"
Landscapes and historical sites in Europe, seen through the eyes of a historian. I’m looking for the past where I know it is, and using techniques of the past to create my own interpretation, inspired by the artists of the romantic ages. In our digital age, I want to preserve the photographic language and techniques of the past, since they learn us something about the way we perceive the world. History is all around us: the landscape, as Simon Schama wrote, is made as much of layers of memory as of layers of rock.
Educated as a Dutch historian, graduated in 1990 and obtained a Ph.D. in Middle and Eastern European history in 2011, I thereafter decided to study photography. Somehow, doing research, writing and making exhibitions wasn’t enough. I felt the need to express this in images. During my time at the Photoacademy in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Netherlands, I learned to wield the magic staff of vintage plate camera’s, learned to print with gum and water colour, to use paper negatives, make silver gelatine prints and above all: to develop a photographic eye. Now, I can use this magic wand to show that in our modern, 21st century world, the feelings of the past are still there, the work of the romantics is just around the corner, and history is all around us.
Our minds are shaped by them.
For the SKVR in Rotterdam, I teach analogue techniques for beginners, especially silver gelatine printing in the dark room. Check here for the SKVR photography curriculum.
Original, analogue fine Art Prints, unique because of their technique, are for sale, for prices mostly under € 500, price depending on size and technique, in limited editions. Just sent me an email at mvanhattemenco@gmail.com
Digital reproductions of some of my work are available for the small budget through the website of "Werk aan de Muur"("Ohmyprints" for German and French customers)
Or visit me at an exhibition of the Nomads of Sehnsucht (formerly: Galerie Sehnsucht), where I’m a participant in the collective of artists; check our exhibition programma here: www.galeriesehnsucht.com
Want to know more? Matthijs Deen (VPRO radio) has made a fine radio documentary - Het Verleden Vastgelegd - in 2016 (in Dutch). Use this link .
Then, the Small Production Company made a video for Rotterdam Snapshots, Rotterdam Photo 2016: https://youtu.be/ZkKcba_O0Gw
Exhibitions
Coming: Kunstmaand Ameland, november 2022
Haagse Kunstkring, Nomads, 2022
Kasteel Rhoon, Nomads, 2021
Regio Art Rijnmond, Spijkenisse, 2020
Rotterdam Photo Festival, 2020
KUZ Huis, Hoek van Holland, 2019
Galerie Noord, wintersalon, december 2019
Pop-Up Gallery Crawl with Nomads of Sehnsucht, 2019
Galerie Sehnsucht, Rotterdam, several exhibitions, 2017 and 2018.
Door de ogen van Rotterdam, De Zorgbutler, 2018
Rotterdam Photo Festival 2018
Galerie Noord, Groningen, 2017
Rotterdam Photo 2017
NEW Dutch Photography Talent, GUP Magazine, Art’otel Amsterdam 2016-2017
Rotterdam Photo Festival 2016
AIM, SBK Gallery, Amsterdam 2015
Images of the Past, IJsselland Hospital 2014
KNORR foto Galerie De Fruitvis, Rotterdam, 2013
Art Route Barendrecht 2009
mvanhattemenco@gmail.com telephone +31 6 51700296.
