COMMON GROUND
European Cultural Foundation
Magazine
255 × 175 mm / offset print
2022
The fourth issue of Common Ground, the annual magazine of the European Cultural Foundation, created to celebrate Europe Day. Europe Day is celebrated on May 9, since on that date in 1950 a statement (the Schuman declaration) was made by French foreign minister Robert Schuman. It proposed to place French and West German production of coal and steel under one common High Authority. This organization would be open to participation of other Western European countries. This cooperation was to be designed in such a way as to create common interests between European countries which would lead to gradual political integration, a condition for the pacification of relations between them. It was the beginning of what would become our current European Union.
Robert Schuman: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.’
Cover Photo: Patricia Morosan
Robert Schuman: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.’
Cover Photo: Patricia Morosan
Entre
Desiré van den Berg
Photobook
305 × 245 mm / offset print
2023
'Entre' is a docufiction about the Entrepotbrug, a special building above the Borneohaven in Amsterdam East where photographer Desiré van den Berg has lived in recent years. The book contains five years of images: the winding building that has a retro-futuristic character through the round windows and spiral staircases, captured in all seasons, with the changing skies above, but also glimpses into the lives behind the outer walls through still lifes of interiors and portraits of her neighbours.
The book contains 114 photographs, interspersed with drawings by the architect, and notes by the photographer in Dutch describing the thought process surrounding the work over the years.
Project and photos: Désire van den Berg
Text: Rolien Zonneveld
Close-up photos: The Book Photographer
The book contains 114 photographs, interspersed with drawings by the architect, and notes by the photographer in Dutch describing the thought process surrounding the work over the years.
Project and photos: Désire van den Berg
Text: Rolien Zonneveld
Close-up photos: The Book Photographer
Cas Oorthuys
Verzetsmusem Amsterdam
Exhibition
Divers
2023
Dutch photographer and resister Cas Oorthuys (1908–1975) takes hundreds of photos during the Second World War. This exhibition surveys his work and tells the resistance photographer’s story with the benefit of new historical research.
Photography is permitted in the Netherlands during the occupation until November 1944, although restrictions apply to military sites and objects. While Cas works legally for clients, he also photographs resisters and their activities. When a general ban on photography is announced in 1944, Cas carries on taking photos, clandestinely recording the famine of the so-called Hunger Winter. As Cas recalls after the war: “I suppose we never really discuss it (…) So many of our friends died. You lie awake thinking about it. That constant fear of the doorbell ringing, it never goes away.”
The exhibition mixes their stories which relate to love, colonial heritage, migration for studies, and safety issues and shows how Amsterdam turned into a very diverse city in which people sometimes have much more in common in their history than you would think at first sight.
Spatial design: Rogier Martens
Photos: Zindzi Zwietering
Photography is permitted in the Netherlands during the occupation until November 1944, although restrictions apply to military sites and objects. While Cas works legally for clients, he also photographs resisters and their activities. When a general ban on photography is announced in 1944, Cas carries on taking photos, clandestinely recording the famine of the so-called Hunger Winter. As Cas recalls after the war: “I suppose we never really discuss it (…) So many of our friends died. You lie awake thinking about it. That constant fear of the doorbell ringing, it never goes away.”
The exhibition mixes their stories which relate to love, colonial heritage, migration for studies, and safety issues and shows how Amsterdam turned into a very diverse city in which people sometimes have much more in common in their history than you would think at first sight.
Spatial design: Rogier Martens
Photos: Zindzi Zwietering
Manie Schaafijs
De Harmonie
Book
170 × 240 mm / offset print
2023
A childrens book about the great-grandfather, Francisco de Freitas, of Hedy Tjin (the illustrator of this book) who probabely was the first one to introduce shaved ice cream to Suriname. Zindzi Zevenbergen did write the story up and combined it with real historical facts and a bickering family who keeps interrupting the story because they all think they know the real story.
Illustrations: Hedy Tjin
Text: Zindzi Zevenbergen
Illustrations: Hedy Tjin
Text: Zindzi Zevenbergen