Annaleen Louwes

photographer

Dutch[1] active 1989–present

Annaleen Louwes is a Dutch photographer and educator. She has held various academic positions, including professor of photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam (1993–2010) and currently serves as a professor at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague since 2015. Her photographic work often explores personal narratives, portraits, and studies of individuals, including psychiatric patients and people in various social contexts. She has been involved in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, with works shown in Amsterdam, Paris, Tirana, Medellin, and Tokyo.[1,2]

  • portraiture
  • personal narratives
  • psychiatric studies
  • social observation

Works by Annaleen Louwes

  • 2007 Minor Details Van Zoetendaal Publishers · book · English · ISBN 9080213272 Compiles four different series taken between 2002 and 2006.
  • 2003 Restless Studies book Studies of psychiatric patients.
  • 2010 Louwes versus Meijers book

Exhibitions

  • 2025 es gibt keine sahne, es gibt krieg bradwolff projects, Amsterdam · solo
  • 2023 am i real(ly here)? mind the gap | beautiful distress house, Amsterdam · solo
  • 2018 fernweh cargo in context | unseen, Amsterdam · solo
  • 2017 black & white and (some) kind of blue het dolhuys, Haarlem · solo
  • 2017 dusk cargo in context, Amsterdam · solo
  • 2015 calle #52 mde2015 medellin quadriënale, Medellin · solo
  • 2010 please think positive galerie fonds bkvb, Amsterdam · solo
  • 2008 burgu #325 galerie fonds bkvb / galeria zeta, Amsterdam / Tirana · solo
  • 2004 portraits museum de paviljoens, Almere · solo
  • 2003 z7apeldoorn gabk apeldoorn · solo
  • 2003 studies of ko moreau cbkn nijmegen · solo
  • 1999 almerian men museum de paviljoens, Almere · solo
  • 1997 crying men photofestival naarden, Naarden · solo

Awards

  • 2018 theater poster award icw esther noyons
  • 2016 theater poster award icw esther noyons
  • 2012 national portraiture award netherlands
  • 2008 theater poster award icw esther noyons

References

  1. Annaleen Louwes: Minor Details. LensCulture. 2017 link
  2. cv - annaleen louwes link