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Document Netherlands: New Energy
Photographer and filmmaker Kadir van Lohuizen documents the Dutch energy transition: towering wind turbines, thick undersea cables and colossal platforms on the open sea.
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To photograph wind turbines being built at sea, Kadir van Lohuizen first had to pass offshore training and earn the certificates that let him board installation vessels and platforms. "No matter how high-tech it all is," he says, "the weather still determines everything."
What he brought back is nine panoramic photographs and a video installation in the Photography Gallery, shot in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom. You go from an offshore wind farm under construction to the server room of a hermetically sealed data centre. It is this year's Document Nederland, the commission the Rijksmuseum has given a Dutch photographer every year since 1975. In a museum people visit for Rembrandt, this is the room about what charges your phone.
The second room holds Document Nederland Junior, photographs by school and vocational students who had a masterclass with Van Lohuizen. Entry is included in museum admission at €25, free for ages 18 and under. His book New Energy comes out on 25 November.
Look for
An offshore wind farm under construction
Look for turbines going up on the open sea, shot from the installation vessels and platforms Van Lohuizen trained and certified to board.
A data centre's server room
A panorama from inside a hermetically sealed data centre, one of the high-security sites he was given exclusive access to.
Document Nederland Junior
In the gallery's second room, photographs on the same energy theme by secondary and vocational students who took a masterclass with Van Lohuizen.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You only have time for the Old Masters: this is nine contemporary photographs of energy infrastructure.
With kids
Free for ages 18 and under. The second room shows photographs by secondary-school and vocational students on the same theme.
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- Document Netherlands: New EnergyCourtesy of Rijksmuseum
- Yoshitoshi. Master of the MoonCourtesy of Van Gogh Museum
- Whistler. Dandy and DisruptorCourtesy of Van Gogh Museum
- RijksmuseumTrougnouf (Benoit Brummer) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Moco MuseumC messier, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Van Gogh MuseumSteven Lek, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Stedelijk Museum AmsterdamJohn Lewis Marshall, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museum Van LoonRijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0