The Rijksmuseum (Dutch national museum in Amsterdam) has decided it will purchase the complete series of “Comfort Women” (18 prints) and “Traces of War” (24 prints), for its permanent collection.
Rijksmuseum website
- 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.