We are very pleased to announce new artist Jaap Scheeren to DMB Media
January 4th, 2012 by dmb media
Jaap Scheeren was born in 1979, on a cool winter day, in Nijmegen (Netherlands) and is currently living and working in Amsterdam. He decided to study photography after a failed adventure in chemistry. He did this at the St. Joost Academy in Breda (Netherlands) where he graduated in 2003.
In 2006, he published a book in collaboration with Anouk Kruithof called “The Black Hole”, a project subsequently exhibited at FOAM in Amsterdam. This book offered him an international recognition including a honourable mentioning from Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles book award.
He won the 21st competition of the “Festival International de Mode et de Photography” in Hyères (France) 2006, leading the following year to a solo exhibition at Villa Noailles, showcasing a commission about the City of Hyères.The same year, he took part of the “Dutch Dare: Contemporary photography in the Netherlands” exhibition at the Australian Centre of Photography in Sydney. In November 2007, he published his second book “Oma Toos”about his incredibly funny grandmother.
In 2008 he did an artist residency in Bratislava, Slovakia, where he made the series “3 roses, 9 ravens, 12 months”. This project also resulted in a publication with the same name. The year after he made a project together with designer Hans Gremmen called “Fake Flowers in Full Colour.” Nowadays he needs to update himself a bit more regularly.
His work has been published in FOAM, Beaux-Arts magazine, Libération, LeMonde, DasMagasin, Kilimanjaro, PICNIC, IANN and Blast among many others.
Read more: http://dmbmedia.co.uk/artists/jaap-scheeren/photography/
