- Jan Banning
May 4th 1954, Almelo
Dutch photographer and artist. Banning was born in the Netherlands from Dutch-East-Indies parents. He studied social and economic history at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and has been working as a photographer since 1981. A central theme of Banning's practice is state power, having produced series about the long-term consequences of war and the world of government bureaucracy.
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- Photography
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- Gallery
- Carnaval: All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go (‘Het verdriet van Carnaval’)’
- The Sweating Subject
- Red Utopia
- Pulaski Women's Prison
- Law and Order – Introductory text + photos
- The Face of Poverty (revisited, 2015)Het gezicht van de armoede (herbezocht, 2015)
- Cyprus: The Green Line
- Down and Out in the South
- National Identities
- Comfort Women (Troostmeisjes)
- Renovation of the Rijksmuseum
- Bureaucratics
- The Face of Poverty (2005)
- Traces of War: Survivors of the Burma and Sumatra Railways (Sporen van oorlog. Overlevenden van de Birma- en de Pakanbaroe-spoorweg)
- Children of the white mist: Agent Orange in Vietnam
- Aftermath (1990s)
- Vintage (1980s/90s)
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- Books
- The Sweating Subject
- Red Utopia
- Law & Order
- Bureaucratics (2008/2009/2010/2016)
- Comfort Women / Troostmeisjes (Japan edition 2015)
- Het gezicht van de armoede [The Face of Poverty: Ten Years in the Life of an African Village] (2015)
- Down and Out in the South (2013)
- Comfort Women / Troostmeisjes (2010)
- Bouwwerk. Mensen maken het museum (2010)
- Binnen is het donker, buiten is het licht (2007)
- Traces of War: Survivors of the Burma and Sumatra Railways (2005)
- Sporen van oorlog. Overlevenden van de Birma- en de Pakanbaroe-spoorweg (2003)
- Pulang. Terug naar Maluku (1997)
- Vietnam: Doi Moi (1993)
- Books
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- My Writings
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- De wereld in oorlog – VARAgids 13/2020
- Speech at Opening of Rosa Verhoeve’s Kopi Susu in Erasmushuis Jakarta, Aug. 1, 2019
- Christina Boyer: How a Dutch photographer fights for an American women, wrongly imprisoned for murdering her own child.
- Susan Kigula: How a woman on death row changed the Ugandan legal system
- Down and Out in the South
- Icon or cliché? Photojournalism and World Press Photo 2013, April 24, 2013
- Fear and Loathing in Bogota . Formalism and heartlessness at the Dutch Embassy, Sept. 26, 2013
- Speech bij de herdenking van de Birma- en de Pakanbaroe-spoorweg, 15 augustus 2013
- Speech at Book Launch of Law&Order
- Death Sentence in Uganda: the case of Susan Kigula
- Eugene Smith’s ‘Spanish Village’ Revisited: the villagers’ struggle with being an icon. (1986/2014)
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- Media
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- Television
- Tijd voor Max, March 4, 2020
- NDR (Germany) – March 24, 2021, Schleswig-Holstein Magazin: “Schleswiger Stadtmuseum zeigt Fotografien von Jan Banning”
- SWR (Germany) – Oct. 10, 2018, “Jan Banning: “Red Utopia” – Ramschladen des Kommunismus” von Eberhard Reuss.
- VOF produkties, El Zapatero Cojo (The one-legged cobbler) Dutch & Spanish spoken, English subtitles. 2018
- AVROTROS Een Vandaag, May 5, 2018
- Brussels international tv (Belgium), March 20, 2016. Fontana exhibition “Time” in Brussels
- BS-TBS (Japan), December 2015. Comfort Women.
- Kunstuur, November 29, 2015
- Caracol TV Internacional (Colombia) / Testigo Directo HD, October 30, 2015
- Nieuwsuur, September 25, 2015
- Fotostudio de Jong, March 5, 2015
- SRW Nachrichten (German spoken), May 20, 2014
- Interview for Geo Magazin (eBook) about “Law and Order” (German spoken)
- OBA Live Mar. 12, 2013, interview Law&Order
- DWDD, "Kunstcollege Joost Zwagerman", Dec. 13, 2011
- VOF produkties, “Het oog van de zoeker”, trailer
- Kazakhstan News-item
- Kazakhstan television reports on “Bureaucratics” exhibition
- Het Gesprek, “Nederlens”, Dec. 8, 2010
- AVRO Kunstuur, Okt. 17, 2010 (Troostmeisjes)
- “Omdat wij mooi waren” (Troostmeisjes/Comfort Women), Aug. 15, 2010
- DWDD, Sept. 22, 2008 (Bureaucratics)
- Television
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- Radio & Podcast
- 2020 Podcast (NL) | Jan & Christina
- Interview in Städtische Galerie Iserlohn (by Rainer Danne), Germany, Sept. 5, 2020
- BlogTalkRadio, Shedding Light (USA) – August 18, 2020
- NPO Radio 1 (NL) - Miss Podcast - June 12, 2020, about the podcast "Jan&Christina.”
- NOS Radio 1 Journaal (NL) – March 9 2020
- VRT (Belgium): Interne Keuken – March 7, 2020 (Jan & Christina)
- NOS Radio 1 Journaal (NL) – Oct. 10, 2018 European Day Against the Death Sentence
- SWR2 (Germany) – Oct. 10, 2018, “Jan Banning: “Red Utopia” (+ Law & Order and The Sweating Subject). Ramschladen des Kommunismus” von Andreas Langen.
- Deutschlandfunk (Germany) – Oct. 1, 2018, Red Utopia in Zephyr (Reiss-Engelhorn Museen) Mannheim
- Radio 4 – AVROTROS Opium – June 11, 2018 Retrospective in Fotomuseum Den Haag (Dutch spoken)
- Radio 1 – VPRO Nooit meer slapen – May 3, 2018 Retrospective in Fotomuseum Den Haag (Dutch spoken)
- Radio 1 – BNNVARA: De reizende microfoon – January 6th, 2018
- VRT (Belgium): Interne Keuken – November 11, 2017, Red Utopia (Dutch spoken)
- Radio 1 – NTR: Kunststof – October 16th, 2017
- Radio 1: Bureau Buitenland – August 15, 2017 (Dutch spoken)
- VRT (Belgium): Interne Keuken – September 3, 2016. Law&Order (Dutch spoken)
- Radio Den Haag FM: Nieuwslicht – March 12, 2016. Law&Order
- Radio 1: De Nieuws BV – January 27, 2016.
- Radio 5 – NTR: Dichtbij Nederland – December 16, 2015
- Radio 1 – VPRO: Bureau Buitenland – December 2, 2015
- Radio 4: Opium op 4 – December 1, 2015
- Radio 1 – NOS: Met Het Oog Op Morgen – November 8, 2015
- Radio 5 - NTR: Dichtbij Nederland - October 29, 2015
- Radio 1 – VPRO: Bureau Buitenland – September 16, 2015
- Radio France Info: Portraits de justice – March 22, 2015. Law & Order (French spoken)
- Radio 1: Nooit meer slapen - september 23rd, 2014
- WXRY-FM: World Premiere: Needtobreathe "The Heart" The Independent Alternative Columbia, SC, january 15th, 2014
- Radio 1 - VTR: Interne Keuken - october 5th 2013
- Radio 6 - VPRO: De avonden - june 11th 2013
- Radio 1 - NTR: Kunststof - may 20th 2013
- Radio 1 - NOS: Met het oog op morgen - may 17th 2013
- Radio St. Petersburg: Art Launch - april 4th 2010
- Radio & Podcast
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Fotostudio de Jong, March 5, 2015
Fotostudio de Jong – Law & Order
NPO2 – March 5, 2015
Jan Banning about his project Law & Order
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Jan Banning
May 4th 1954, Almelo -
Dutch photographer and artist. Banning was born in the Netherlands from Dutch-East-Indies parents. He studied social and economic history at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and has been working as a photographer since 1981. A central theme of Banning's practice is state power, having produced series about the long-term consequences of war and the world of government bureaucracy.