Zorg in Nederland, een tijdsbeeld

Photographs of healthcare in the Netherlands in 1993-94, made by two photographers on assignment. The pictures cover care in hospitals and at home: nursing homes, AIDS care, psychiatry, emergency medicine, intensive care, neonatology, a children's oncology ward, a hospital outpatient clinic, a children's hospital mortuary and a home birth. The photographers show the people on the front line, and also those working in the background, such as volunteers and neighbours. The approach is documentary reportage. The work comes from the Rijksmuseum's yearly photo assignment, which had healthcare as its theme in 1993 and went to Roel Visser and Harrie Timmermans. The book accompanied the exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, shown from 11 May to 10 September 1994. Pensioenfonds PGGM published it with the Rijksmuseum for the fund's 25th anniversary in 1994. It is a commissioned exhibition catalogue and photobook with work by both photographers.