Jan Hoek
Jan Hoek (Amsterdam, NL, 1984) is always attracted to the beauty of outsiders worldwide and always keen to collaborate intensively with people that normally are overlooked and create together a new image. He photographed movie stars like Nairobi based motor taxi riders and the activists, fashion icons and proud trans sex workers Sistaaz of the Castle. He is the founder of the Captain Hoek foundation and Outsiderland, through which he aims to bring together the world of insider and outsider artists. In the universe of Hoek the ‘normal’ people are the strangers and the outsiders are the funky rulers of this planet.
Hoek‘s work is shown at places such as Foam (Amsterdam), Unseen Festival (Amsterdam), Breda Photo Festival, Photoville (New York), Fomu (Antwerp) and Lagos Photo (Lagos). His work is included in serval corporate and museum collections.
Exhibitions at the gallery:
The Big Everyone Works With Everyone Show
Extravaganza
Lockdown Show: part #1 Jan Hoek , Duran Lantink and SistaazHood
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The publication features both documentary style pictures as well as staged studio photographs in which the Sistaaz wear the collaborative fashion collection, furthermore it features texts written by the women: stories about their lives, dreams and the struggles and successes they’ve met with.
Published by Art Paper Editions | 152 pages | 23 × 31 cm | Softcover | 2019, | ISBN: 9789493146204
€20,00 (tax included)
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