Jan Hoek
Ethics always plays a role in photography. It is almost impossible to take pictures of people without knowingly or unknowingly crossing boundaries or things happening that you didn’t want or didn’t expect. These unexpected aspects are often obscured, while I think it’s important to show them.
Jan Hoek via Mondriaanfonds.nl
Jan Hoek (1984, The Netherlands) is an Amsterdam based artist, photographer and writer. In his work he is always attracted to the beauty of outsiders worldwide and always keen to collaborate intensively with people that normally are overlooked and create together a new image. He photographed movie star like Nairobi based motor taxi riders, a Amsterdam based ex heroin addict who always dreamed of being a super model, created psychedelic zines about the sex tourist capital of the world Pattaya, and made a series about the Maasai who not identify with the jumping stereotype image. In the universe of Hoek the ‘normal’ people are the strangers and the outsiders are the funky rulers of this planet.
