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Exhibition: Martin Roemers / Metropolis
Mankind may originally have been much closer to nature, but today more than half of the world’s population lives in a city. The largest cities in the world are now to be found in India and the Far East, with Tokyo – home to 38 million people – at the top. The next biggest are Delhi (25 million), Shanghai (23 million) and Mumbai (21 million). In all, 28 of the world’s cities meet the UN’s definition of a ‘megacity’: one with more than 10 million inhabitants. Globally, one in eight of us now lives in a megacity. Intrigued by this process of urbanisation, between 2007 and 2015 Martin Roemers travelled to no fewer than 22 megacities across five continents to photograph life there.
Apart from its population size the modern megacity is difficult to typify, as the conventional image ... - Exposition
Martin Roemers shows « The Eyes of War »
In the exhibition The Eyes of War by photographer Martin Roemers, the Kunsthal Rotterdam illustrates the consequences and aftermath of war. For this remarkable series of portraits, Roemers photographed 40 blind war veterans from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Russia and Ukraine. On 4 May, the Netherlands commemorates all Dutch people who have died as a result of war since the Second World War. Roemers portrays not only Dutch war victims, but also those from other countries. The photographs will be presented together with brief yet moving interviews that Roemers conducted himself. In these interviews, the people portrayed describe both the circumstances under which they went blind and their daily lives after the war. With The Eyes of War, the Kunsthal presents the sequel to a previous exhibition held in 20... - Exposition
Martin Roemers - Relics of the Cold War
The Cold War is over, yet its traces are still visible. For forty long years, the Iron Curtain dividedEurope into East and West; atomic-bomb shelters were built, weapons stockpiled, emergency drills carried out. Dutch documentary photographer Martin Roemers (*1962) decided to track down the remains of this period. For over ten years he repeatedly traveled through formerly hostile countries on both sides of the line: through eastern and western Germany, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine, and other former East Bloc nations. He descended into underground tunnels; photographed abandoned control centers, old barracks, wrecked tanks, and ruined statues. In his images the era of enmity, the politics of deterrence, and the arms race appear ongoing and vivid, serving as a reminder for a future of peace.
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Mankind may originally have been much closer to nature, but today more than half of the world’s population lives in a city. The largest cities in the world are now to be found in India and the Far East, with Tokyo – home to 38 million people – at the top. The next biggest are Delhi (25 million), Shanghai (23 million) and Mumbai (21 million). In all, 28 of the world’s cities meet the UN’s definition of a ‘megacity’: one with more than 10 million inhabitants. Globally, one in eight of us now lives in a megacity. Intrigued by this process of urbanisation, between 2007 and 2015 Martin Roemers travelled to no fewer than 22 megacities across five continents to photograph life there.
Apart from its population size the modern megacity is difficult to typify, as the conventional image ...
In the exhibition The Eyes of War by photographer Martin Roemers, the Kunsthal Rotterdam illustrates the consequences and aftermath of war. For this remarkable series of portraits, Roemers photographed 40 blind war veterans from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Russia and Ukraine. On 4 May, the Netherlands commemorates all Dutch people who have died as a result of war since the Second World War. Roemers portrays not only Dutch war victims, but also those from other countries. The photographs will be presented together with brief yet moving interviews that Roemers conducted himself. In these interviews, the people portrayed describe both the circumstances under which they went blind and their daily lives after the war. With The Eyes of War, the Kunsthal presents the sequel to a previous exhibition held in 20...
The Cold War is over, yet its traces are still visible. For forty long years, the Iron Curtain dividedEurope into East and West; atomic-bomb shelters were built, weapons stockpiled, emergency drills carried out. Dutch documentary photographer Martin Roemers (*1962) decided to track down the remains of this period. For over ten years he repeatedly traveled through formerly hostile countries on both sides of the line: through eastern and western Germany, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine, and other former East Bloc nations. He descended into underground tunnels; photographed abandoned control centers, old barracks, wrecked tanks, and ruined statues. In his images the era of enmity, the politics of deterrence, and the arms race appear ongoing and vivid, serving as a reminder for a future of peace.
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