By Ruud Visschedijk director of the Nederlands Fotomuseum
Rafaël Philippen is a photographer who still amazes the world. His gaze is innocent, like that of the deer basking in the grass in one of his photos. They seem unaware of any harm. A bit naive perhaps, unashamedly romantic at times, but uninhibited. Who nowadays dares to come out so openly that he is looking for something as old-fashioned as the beautiful and the beautiful, without making things more beautiful than they are? Rafaël Philippen does this without any hesitation and that is why life in his world is 'delightful'.
In collaboration with: Frans Budé, Ruud Visschedijk director of the Nederlands Fotomuseum, episode publishers
Location: 2005, Rotterdam
by Frans Budé Rafaël Philippen manages to penetrate with his camera into an almost enchantingly decorated no man's land. He observes and records moods, evoking a new imagination: that of pure visual poetry. Insights / moments is a travelogue of a world that is there and at the same time is not. A pleasant journey through landscapes and atmospheres in search of the ultimate beauty.
In collaboration with: Frits Gierstberg, curator of photography at the Nederlands Fotomuseum & episode publishers
Location: 2007, Rotterdam
by Frits Gierstberg, curator of photography at the Nederlands Fotomuseum. The camera in love. A title of a 1971 film by photographer Ed van der Elsken. I immediately think of it when I see the photos of Rafaël Philippen. Could there be a better description for his portraits of girls and young women, which express so much love and intimacy? This is not about the ladies themselves, but about their photographic image. Not the photographer, but the camera is in love.
In collaboration with: Sander Philippen, Ruud Visschedijk director of the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Hripsimé Visser, curator of photography at the Stedelijk Museum, underground gallery of Sint Fiet, CBK Rotterdam, post editions
Location: 2010, Rotterdam
The beauty of the everyday by Hripsimé Visser, curator of photography at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Sander and Rafaël Philippen love their camera. That much is certain. The father may have a preference for landscapes and architecture, the son may marvel at female beauty, but their work is not conceptual. Both seem to surrender with undisguised pleasure to the framing eye of their camera.
In collaboration with: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Edith Eussen, Nico Jesse, Flip Bool, Lecturis, Limburgs Museum, Center Ceramiqeu, Dominicaner
Location: 2013, Rotterdam
Edith Eussen and Rafaël Philippen are making a new family album of seven Limburg families in collaboration with the Nederlands Fotomuseum. These families were photographed in the years 42/43 by photographer and general practitioner Nico Jesse. Together with designer Bear Cornet and poet Frans Budé they made the new family album Familia. The Limburgs Museum in Venlo showed the exhibition, then the exhibition traveled to the Center Ceramique and to the Dominicans in Maastricht.
In collaboration with: Edith Eussen, Frits Gierstberg, curator Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Luc De Vos of the Belgian band GORKI and Leon Verdonschot, Post Editions Rotterdam
Location: 2015, Rotterdam
ISBN/EAN:9789460830495 UPHO unidentified photographic object Photo book by Rafaël Philippen and Edith Eussen with texts by Frits Gierstberg Curator Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Luc De Vos of the Belgian band GORKI, Leon Verdonschot.
In collaboration with: prose Joke van Leeuwen interviews Paulien Bakker publisher Image Mix Foundation
Location: Rotterdam, 2020
by Paulien Bakker 'I grew up with three sisters. I think that's why I'm so fond of girls. All my childhood is girls, I always played with my sisters friends. Now I wanted to try to make a book on one subject for once. I think the world is so beautiful that I prefer to show everything. But if it has to be one part of it, then girls. I am a fan of girls.
In collaboration with: Fries Museum, Limburgs Museum, National Military Museum, Kranenburgh Museum, WAD, Nederlands Fotomuseum Museum, Airport Library, Museum Het Valkhof, Museum Arnhem, Museum Tongerlohuys, NS Station Roosendaal, Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Beeldmix.
Location: Fries Museum, Limburgs Museum, National Military Museum, Kranenburgh Museum, WAD, Nederlands Fotomuseum Museum, Airport Library, Museum Het Valkhof, Museum Arnhem, Museum Tongerlohuys, NS Station Roosendaal, Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Beeldmix., 2015 - NOW (ONE ONGOING PROJECT)
In De Mix, photo collections of historical Dutch photographers are used as a source of inspiration for new autonomous work by contemporary photographers. The Mix was developed by initiator Rafaël Philippen and each time consists of a photo assignment, an exhibition and a publication. The first four De Mix projects were designed together with Ruud Visschedijk, director of the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
In collaboration with: Cas Oorthuys, Hans van der Meer, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Fries Museum, Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Beeldmix.
Location: 2016, Rotterdam
The Mix The Cow Hans van der Meer made a photo series inspired by the famous photo book Rundvee by Cas Oorthuys. The book contains photos of cows in meadows, of farmers and stables. In Hans van der Meer's new photo series, the cow is central to current Dutch livestock farming and landscape. If you put the two series side by side, you will notice how much dairy farming and the landscape have changed over the past seventy years.
In collaboration with: Paul Julien, Andrea Stultiens, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Limburgs Museum, Mondriaan Fund, Image Mix Foundation.
Location: 2016-2017, Rotterdam
The Mix Mission The exhibition shows new prints of digitized negatives by Paul Julien from the collection of the Nederlands Fotomuseum. In addition, material produced by Stultiens is on display that provides insight into the way in which Julien's photos can come to life. The exhibition focuses on Liberia (in West Africa) and Sudan (in East Africa), where Julien was in 1932 and 1934 and 1947 respectively.
In collaboration with: Frits J. Rotgans, Jannes Linders, Netherlands Photo Museum, National Military Museum, Mondriaan Fund, Image Mix Foundation.
Location: 2017-2018, Rotterdam
The Mix SCHIPHOL SLUMBERLAND This special exhibition focuses on Schiphol Airport. Historical photos by Frits J. Rotgans take the visitor to the then new Schiphol (around 1970). Linders shows the traveler who finds himself in a kind of slumber state in the midst of this dynamic world. “Travellers are often waiting, sleeping, shutting themselves off from the world around them with their iPhone and earbuds,” Linders said.
In collaboration with: Museum Het Valkhof, Annie van Gemert, Nijmegen Regional Archives, Working Group on War Dead Nijmegen, Paulien Bakker, Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Beeldmix.
Location: Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
The Mix 'Children of the war' is the title of a new exhibition that Museum Het Valkhof is showing on the occasion of the commemoration year in Nijmegen. The exhibition contains images and stories of children from Nijmegen during the Second World War and contemporary photos photographed by Annie van Gemert of children who fled the war and now live in Nijmegen.
In collaboration with: Suzanne Valkenburg, Pieter de Booys, Museum Arnhem, Eusebius, Marcel van Roosmalen, Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Beeldmix.
Location: 2019, Arnhem
The Mix 'Silence' The Arnhem photographer Suzanne Valkenburg translates historical images into the present time in the photo exhibition De Mix 'Silence'. The historical photos in this photo exhibition are by Pieter de Booys, who photographed the city during the evacuation of Arnhem and the following years, when normal life resumed.
In collaboration with: Blommers & Schumm - Adolphe Burdet, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Museum Kranenburgh, Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Beeldmix.
Location: 2017-2018, Rotterdam
The Mix De Boswachter Inspired by the early 20th-century nature photography of Adolphe Burdet, the photography duo Blommers & Schumm portrayed forest rangers in the nature reserves of Egmond and Schoorl. The invisible profession is portrayed in the style characteristic of the photographer duo. They show the men and women lying in the landscape - their landscape - that seems to be swallowing them up.
In collaboration with: Museum Tongerlohuys, Johan van der Keuken, Isa de Jong, NS, Doreen Commissioner, Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Beeldmix.
Location: 2020, Roosendaal
De Mix Today I'm Growing Within the talent development trajectory, Isa de Jong was given the opportunity to develop work for De Mix. With her project 'Today I grow' she shows the lives of twenty-year-olds in her environment. She was inspired by the book 'We are 17' by Johan van der Keuken.
post editions - Rafaël Philippen, Sander Philippen, Ruud Visschedijk director of the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Hripsimé Visser, curator of photography at the Stedelijk Museum
Publication
Convallaria Majalis
2007
book
episode publishers - Frits Gierstberg, curator of photography at the Nederlands Fotomuseum
Publication
Insights / Moments
2003
book
episode publishers - Rafaël Philippen, Frans Budé, Ruud Visschedijk director of the Nederlands Fotomuseum
