Rob Hornstra

Photographer / Visual storyteller

P.O. Box 1011
3500 BA Utrecht / NL
+31 6 14365936

KvK 30182322 / VAT NL001654162B78

Education

2004: Graduated with honours from the Academy of Arts Utrecht, Photographic Design.
1998: Graduated from the University for Professional Education Utrecht, Social and Legal Services.

Biography

Rob Hornstra, born in 1975 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch photographer of predominantly long-term documentary projects, both at home and around the world. He has published several books of solo work, produced documentary series for a variety of international magazines, and taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. In 2009, Hornstra and writer/filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen started The Sochi Project, culminating in the retrospective book An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus and an exhibition that toured Europe, America, India and Canada. He is the founder and former artistic director of FOTODOK – Space for Documentary Photography. Four times per year he runs a popular live talkshow about photo books in his home town Utrecht.

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Publications

2021: The Europeans - The Naval Base (Self-published)
2020: The Europeans - The Former Capital (Self-published)
2017: Man Next Door (Self-published)
2015: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (Aperture, New York)
2013: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus (Aperture, New York); The Secret History of Khava Gaisanova (Self-published)
2012: KIEV (Self-published); Life Here is Serious (Self-published)
2011: Sochi Singers (Self-published); Safety First (Self-published)
2010: One Day (Kehrer Verlag); Empty land, Promised land, Forbidden land (Self-published); On the Other Side of the Mountains (Self-published)
2009: Sanatorium (Self-published); 101 Billionaires - Crisis Edition (Self-published)
2008: 101 Billionaires (Self-published)
2006: Roots of the Rúntur (Self-published)
2004: Communism & Cowgirls (Self-published)

Awards

2021: Zilveren Camera Storytelling Award
2014: Dutch Doc Award; Zilveren Camera Storytelling Award
2012: Sony World Photography Award; World Press Photo Award
2011: Magnum Expression Award; Zilveren Camera Storytelling Award
2010: New York Photo Book Award
2007: GD4ART International Competition
2004: Dutch Photo Academy Award

Exhibitions

2020: Breda Photo; Kaunas Gallery (solo)
2018: Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo)
2017: Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede; FotoForum, Bolzano (solo)
2016: Cech Art Space, Minsk (solo); EFTI, Madrid (solo); National M.K.Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas (solo)
2015: Indira Ghandi National Art Gallery, New Delhi (festival); Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, Zagreb (festival); CFD, Barcelona (solo)
2014: Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (solo); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (group); Aperture Gallery, New York (solo); Contact Gallery, Toronto (solo); Noorderlicht Galerie, Groningen (solo); DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (solo); Fotohof, Salzburg (solo)
2013: Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (solo); FoMu, Antwerp (solo)
2012: Foto8, London (UK)
2011: Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff (UK); Flatland Gallery, Utrecht; Freelens Gallery, Hamburg (Germany); SiFest Savignano (Italy)