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Land: Country Life in the Urban Age
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PRESS RELEASE 26 August, 2010
Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2010
5 September through 31 October, Fries Museum and Blokhuispoort, Leeuwarden
The International Photofestival 2010 will open on Saturday, 4 September, in the Fries Museum. In Land:
Country Life in the Urban Age, Noorderlicht looks at the consequences that urbanisation has for the
countryside. Simultaneously, Warzone, an exhibition examining the experience of war on the part of soldiers
dispatched to conflict areas, is to be seen in the Blokhuispoort. The opening, which begins at 5:00 p.m., is led
by the writer Arno Haijteman, chairman of the Silver Camera and photography reviewer for de Volkskrant. The
festival runs from 5 September through 31 October.
Land – Country Life in the Urban Age
Since the beginning of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population live in cities. What are the
consequences of this shift for the countryside? Is it possible, against all economic logic, to accord new value to
rural life?
Drawing on the work of some thirty photographers, Land – Country Life in the Urban Age exposes the
symbiotic but unequal relation between the city and countryside. Agriculture is organised around large-scale
production at minimal cost, the growing demand for agricultural products quickens the cutting of rainforests,
and whole regions are allocated new uses as a result of increasing need for water. Add to that the continuing
exploitation of ever scarcer natural resources, and the economic and demographic consequences of
immigration to the city, and one thing is clear: the countryside is facing serious challenges in the 21st century.
In 2011 Groningen will be the location for the second part of this diptych: Metropolis – City Life in the Urban
Age.
Warzone
Blokhuispoort
Verdun, Omaha Beach, Srebrenica, Fallujah: names of places that are anchored in our collective memory.
Places where the once serene landscape changed into a battlefield, where young men and women fought for
their faith, politics or ideals, lost their innocence, and sometimes their lives.
Military cemeteries and history books may remind us of them yet, but the battlefields themselves are
transformed after the conflict is over. Time erases the evidence – the rubble is cleared, the shell craters become
overgrown. But is the inner landscape of the soldier as resilient as the landscape in which he fought?
On the basis of work by top photographers including Ad van Denderen, Martin Specht, Paul Seawright, Peter
van Agtmael and Antonin Kratochvil, Warzone pauses to examine the experience of soldiers who have been
dispatched to conflict areas in recent history.
The official launch of the photo book Warzone will be on 25 September in the Blokhuispoort. The book contains
work by about forty war photographers and essays by Hans Achterhuis, Ko Colijn, Auke Hulst, Sebastian
Junger, Jeroen Kramer, Jaus Müller, Joris Voorhoeve and Désirée Verweij.
____ Note to editors:
Photographers who will attend the opening
Land Warzone
Evan Abramson Claire Beckett
Jeroen Toirkens Claire Felicie
Judith Quax Gitta van Buuren
Inamiya Yasuto Jeroen Hofman
Munem Wasif Lalage Snow
Evzen Sobek Lodewijk Duijvesteijn
Jeremie Lenoir Martin Specht
Pablo Balbontin Sander Foederer
Jackie Nickerson Teun Voeten
Laura El-Tantawy Giuliano Koren
Ian Teh
Corinne Silva
Mashid Mohadjerin
Eva Gjaltema
Tessa Bunney
Alexandra Demenkova
Michael Lange
Bernice Siewe
For more information, images and requests for interviews please contact: Djana Eminovic Email [email protected] Telephone +31 (0)50 318 22 27