Eddy Seesing

audiovisual - documentary

Eddy Seesing is an audiovisual portraitist. After intensive cultural anthropological research of a specifically defined group in western society, Seesing develops a concept. These concepts lead to series of portraits in the media photography and / or video. With these series of portraits Eddy Seesing creates installations, exhibitions. Seesing shows the portrayed individuals as part of a larger framework of social and specific professional and economic relations. Apart from documenting a certain group in western society, Seesing aims at influencing public opinion. He uses the media photography and video to create works of cultural and societal analyzes. Since his graduation from the Academy of Design Seesing created the following works: Topmanagers (1994/1995), Opera Sopranos (1997/1999), Boughaz: portrait of three generations Moroccans in Gouda (2001/2003), Religion Today - Spirituality in the Netherlands (2004/2011), The Lobby Experience (2014/2020). With the Religion Today project he published his first book.

  • Portfolio
  • Activities
  • Contact

    • The Lobby Experience

    Project

    • 10-03-2015
    • In collaboration with: University of Amsterdam, Institute of Public Administration Leiden University
    • Location: Not yet decided, Not yet decided
    • The Lobby Experience is a multimedia installation that reveals a closed and hidden professional group that often operates outside the scope of attention and beyond all supervision: the Public Affairs Professional. 20 of them are shown in The Lobby Experience, 10 of them are active at Dutch Parliament and ten are active at the EU. The Lobby Experience shows how they influence important social issues. With the question to what extent these influences or even manipulates democratic decision-making.
    • http://lobbyex.nl/

    Religion Today - Spirituality in the Netherlands

    Project

    • In collaboration with: University of Amsterdam, Bert de Reuver
    • Location: Various exhibitions in the Netherlands and Germany, Various Cities
    • Religion Today - Spirituality in the Netherlands is a photo project centered on 71 different leaders of various religious communities in the Netherlands. Each of the leaders is portrayed in liturgical or religious clothing along with those attributes of his or her particular faith and in the surroundings of that faith. Eddy Seesing assembled and arranged a book along with this project, which was published by THOTH in Bussum.
    • http://www.religiontoday.eu

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund, Contribution free practice floor, The Lobby Experience

    • 2016
      Scholarship

    • CBK Rotterdam, R&D subsidy, The Lobby Experience

    • 2015
      Scholarship

    • Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Publication Grant, Religion Now

    • 2011
      Scholarship

    • Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Publication Religion Now

    • 2011
      Scholarship

    • Prince Bernhard Culture Fund, Boughaz

    • 2002
      Scholarship

    • Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Starting Grant,

    • 1995
      Collection

    • Randstad Photo collection WORK / WORK

    • 1998, Diemen
      Collection

    • Randstad Photo collection WORK / WORK

    • 1997, Diemen
      Collection

    • Tilburg University Art Collection

    • 2013, Tilburg
      Publication

    • Religion Today - Spirituality in the Netherlands

    • 2011
    • monograph
    • THOTH, Bussum - Eddy Seesing
      Publication

    • Schiecentrale Portfolio

    • 2005
    • company publication
    • Development Company Rotterdam - Eddy Seesing, Jos de Groot