- 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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- The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case
- The Verdict: Pulaski State Prison Portraits
- The Verdict – The Local Paper | Het Oordeel – De lokale krant
- The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case | Imagination | Verbeelding
- The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case | Associations | Associaties
- The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case | Diaries | Dagboeken
- The Verdict: The Christina Boyer Case | The Family Album 1988-1992 | Het familiealbum 1988-1992
- 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
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Blog John Adams Institute: The Verdict
- Nooit Meer Slapen (NL Radio 1), 5 maart 2022
- 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
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Comfort Women (Troostmeisjes)
Comfort Women (Troostmeisjes)
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
(William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun)
Raping women seems to be a normal byproduct of wars. During World War II, the Japanese military even set up a system for sex slavery: Tens of thousands of “comfort women” in Asia were forced into prostitution at military brothels. In addition, many girls were abused sexually in railroad wagons, factory warehouses or night after night at home. Most of these women have suffered physical and emotional consequences ever since. Photographer Jan Banning and writer Hilde Janssen visited Indonesian women who during the war were victims of forced sexual labor. In the exhibition, 18 of them break the persistent taboo against speaking out on the issue, thereby painting a gripping picture of this hidden history.
FOR THE PHOTO BOOK, click here.
Film director Frank van Osch followed Jan and Hilde to Indonesia to create a documentary about their search for “comfort” women. The documentary, Because We Were Beautiful, is available in Dutch with English subtitles from VanOsch Film Produkties.
Hilde Janssen (b. 1959) is a journalist and anthropologist. For the past 15 years, she has lived and worked in Asia. From her base in Jakarta, Janssen traveled the Indonesian archipelago for two years searching for comfort women. For her book “Schaamte en onschuld” (in Dutch), click here.
Grants
The project Comfort Women and the exhibition by the same name have been made possible with financial support from the Mondriaan Fund and the V-Fonds. Additional support for this publication was provided by the Fonds BKVB, Foundation Sem Presser Archief and the NLPVF.
Book and exhibition have been made possible with financial support from the Mondriaan Foundation and the V-Fonds. Additional support for the publication was provided by the Fonds BKVB, Foundation Sem Presser and the NLPVF.
Links:
Hilde Janssen, Shame and Innocence
Clare Hewitt’s Blog – If Not Now
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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.
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