- 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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Bureaucratics (2008/2009/2010/2016)
Publisher: Nazraeli, 2008
ISBN-10: 1590052323 / ISBN-13: 978-1590052327
64 pages, hardcover, 12.9 x 12.1 x 0.5 inches
50 photographs
Language: English
Bureaucratics contains 50 environmental portraits of civil servants in eight countries: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the USA and Yemen. The book was edited by Martin Parr.
Grants
The project Bureaucratics has been made possible with financial support from the Foundation for Democracy and Media, Stichting Fonds Anna Cornelis, NCDO and SBKU Utrecht (Committee for the Promotion of Visual Arts).
PDF preview: Click here
Price (including shipping costs):
NL: EUR 76,95 – EU: EUR 79 – Europe (non-EU): EUR 82 – Rest of world: EUR 88
NL: EUR 76,95 – EU: EUR 79 – Europe (non-EU): EUR 82 – Rest of world: EUR 88
To order the Limited Edition Reprint (2016), visit the bookshop
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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.