Ad van Denderen is one of the most famous Dutch documentary photographers in the Netherlands. He is a member of Agence Vu. He had a big change in his carreer after photographing immigrants on the beach in South Spain. Maybe this move made him more famous.

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Ad van Denderen (1943) studied at the School of Graphics in Utrecht. He is a photographer for a long time. His first trip went to India in 1964. Van Denderen’s journalistic approach was always visible in his work. Subjects like apartheid in South Africa, asylumseekers in the Netherlands, Kurds in East-Turkey have his interest.

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After working on his project GoNoGo, he followed immigrants, he wanted to do things differently. Less focus on the moment, more on focus on the subject. In is practise he changed the way of working, visible in new projects like So blue So blue and his last big assignment commissioned by the Rijksmuseum and the newspaper NRC Handelsblad about the Dutch army. He won a couple awards like the Visa d’Or, at the photojournalistic festival Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan France. His work appears not only in magazines, but also in exhibitions and in books.