Erik van Huisstede biography

Walk/Don't Walk (2006, Nice)
Walk/Don't Walk (2006, Nice)

Erik van Huisstede started taking photographs with a Kodak Brownie 'E' at the age of nine. When he was eleven years old he compiled his first slide show. The ability to tell a story, not only with words but also with pictures, fascinated him from a young age.

Following his graduation from the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (Delft University of Technology) he specialised in Technical Communication: the design of 'user manuals' — once again: storytelling by means of words and pictures.
At the same time pictograms began to fascinate him more and more: symbols as visual instructions. This led to his first short movie and PhotoTableau ‘Forbidden for Dogs’.

Over time he approaches the medium of photography in a more free and diverse way. This leads to the use of his street photography for the PhotoBOX-project and for the Veridica: photography as 'compositum', layered and mixed photo images.

2005
Short movie ‘Forbidden for Dogs’ for VPRO’s ‘Kijkers’.

2006
First two PhotoTableaux (‘Forbidden for Dogs’ and ‘#1-100’) shown by Galerie Poonberg,
Rotterdam: summer exhibition ‘Stiefkinderen & Winkeldochters’.

2012
Lauréat at Les Nuits Photographiques, Paris with the short movie ‘100 Seconds’.
Participant in the Les Nuits Photographiques presentation, Les Rencontres Photographiques at Arles.

2012-2013
Short movie ‘50 Skulls + 1 (Julie understood)’ toured Europe and the USA with the Stop-Motion project by Sarah Klein.

2013
Juror Award of Merit for ‘Light My Heart’ (2012, Arezzo) and ‘Don’t Walk’ (2012, New York), International Fine Art Photography Competition / Grand Prix de la Découverte.
Solo exhibition ‘PhotoTableaux, PhotonGraphy, Pictures!’, Academisch Genootschap, Eindhoven.

2014
Guest teacher/photographer for the ‘Grand Project Photography’, primary school Het Landje, Rotterdam.
‘100 Seconds’ screened at Le Cinéma des Photographes, Paris.

2014-2015
First commissioned works.

2014-2016
A selection of the exhibition ‘PhotoTableaux, PhotonGraphy, Pictures!’ is shown by Otter-speer Haasnoot & Partners, Rotterdam.

2014-current
Lecturer ‘Product Photography’ at the Department of Industrial Design Engineering, The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

2016
Exhibition «À Paris !», Atelier Néerlandais, during the Mois de la Photo, Paris.
Introduction of the PhotoBOX.

2017
Beginning of the Veridica studies.

2018
Beginning of the Veridica inferno studies in order to illustrate Dante Alighieri’s ‘La Divina Commedia’.
Solo exhibition ‘Veridica’, Domicilie Bos-Looze, Rotterdam.

2019
Solo exhibition «Veridica + Inferno», Atelier Néerlandais, Paris.
Exhibition ‘Mare~Terra’, Kunstschouw Zeeland, Kerkwerve.

2022
Solo exhibition ‘Veridica Et Cetera’, Galerie Sophie, The Hague.

2023
Exhibition «Les Miniatures», Atelier Néerlandais, Paris.

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Erik van Huisstede
Autoportrait at the Gaîté Lyrique (2011, Paris)