Jaap Scheeren
Jaap Scheeren was born in 1979 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He attended art school at St Joost Academie in Breda in the same period as Anouk Kruithof. They collaborated on the project The Black Hole, for which they won the Unique Photography Prize. The series was exhibited at Foam and published as a book by Episode Publishers in 2006. The book received an Honourable Mention at the Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie. The following year Jaap Scheeren individually published the photobook Oma Toos (Grandma Toos) and in 2008 3 Roses, 9 Ravens, 12 Months. Jaap Scheeren has exhibited his work widely since graduating in 2003, including the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam; Fotofestival Naarden; W 139 and De Balie, Amsterdam; Villa Noailles, Hyères Festival International de Mode et Photographie); Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; 6th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liège, and at the Gallery Michalsky Dvor in Bratislava, Slovakia. Jaap Scheeren has worked in commission for various magazines and publications, including nrc.next, Wallpaper, Kilimanjaro, Le Book and Picnic magazine.
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