Photographer / Visual storyteller

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

KvK 30182322 / VAT NL001654162B78

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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

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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

2023
Ordinary People (Lannoo)
The Europeans - The Black Country (Self-published)
2022
The Europeans - Our Ancestral Home (Self-published)
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

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Exhibitions (non-institutional)

2023

The Europeans in empty former H&M fashion store in Kroonpassage Den Helder, NL

2022

Money Always Wins at a roundabout on the busy access road to city centre Bayonne, FR

2021

Man Next Door in former house of deceased neighbour in working class disctrict in Utrecht, NL

The Europeans in Mondriaan residency Pompgemaal in Huisduinen, NL

Exhibitions (institutional)

2023
Fotomuseum Den Haag (solo)
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
Freelens Gallery, Hamburg (Germany)
SiFest Savignano (Italy)

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Workshops

Utrecht, NL, Warsaw, PL, Valencia ES, Bolzano IT, Luxembourg LU, Bristol UK, Minsk BY, New Delhi IN, Zagreb HR, Barcelona ES, Brighton UK, Cortona IT, Dublin IE, New York US, Vienna AT, London UK, Toronto CA