Annaleen Louwes
photographer
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]
Themes
- portraiture
- personal narratives
- psychiatric studies
- social observation
Books
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Minor Detailsphotographer
Works by Annaleen Louwes
- Minor Details 2007 · Van Zoetendaal Publishers · book · English ISBN 9080213272 Compiles four different series taken between 2002 and 2006.
- Restless Studies 2003 · book Studies of psychiatric patients.
- Louwes versus Meijers 2010 · 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