12/07/2018
We graduated!
Today is the last day to have a look at our works.
Open from 11:00 till 20:00 at the Graduation Festival 2018 - Royal Academy of Art The Hague. Hope to see you there before we all fly out to our next adventure, assignment, holiday or home country.
All the best,
The Stray Dogs
24/06/2018
Thanks to all of you who came to our Soapbox / Sexyland event!
Here are some snippets of the day.
Don't forget to come by our graduation show from the 6th until the 12th of July at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague
24/06/2018
Stray dogs went to Sexyland Amsterdam with their ongoing photo performance to promote the graduation show from the 6th until the 12th of July!
30/05/2018
In SOAPVLOG #4 we talk to Tamar van Haastrecht about her graduation project. She went looking for Ondonopo, a magical dream world from her childhood bedtime stories.
SOAPVLOG #4 - Tamar
In SOAPVLOG #4 we talk to Tamar about her graduation project. She went looking for Ondonopo, a magical dream world from her childhood bedtime stories.
29/05/2018
GOODMORNING! In about 30 min our week long take over of the KIEKIE instagram will hit off! Head over to their page to get a sneak peek of some final images and loads of behind the scenes material!! Fotolabkiekie
23/05/2018
SOAPVLOG ep #3 - Nadezhda talks to us about her graduation project surrounding her Mother and her Motherland.
Stray dogs walk the red carpet
interview and edit by Steven de Kok
https://youtu.be/KWgBrW_9nyQ
SOAPVLOG #3 - Nadezhda
SOAPVLOG ep #3 - Nadezhda talks to us about her graduation project surrounding her Mother and her Motherland. Stray dogs walk the ...
15/05/2018
SOAPVLOG #2 - Marwan Bassiouni
In SOAPVLOG we discover what our graduates are up to and what their projects are about. Get to know the artists of the future!
SOAPVLOG #2 - Marwan
SOAPVLOG #2 - Marwan Marwan tells us more about his graduation project New Dutch Views. SOAPBOX 2018 interview & Edit by Steven de Kok
01/05/2018
SOAPVLOG #1 - Malou
In SOAPVLOG we discover what our graduates are up to and what their projects are about. Get to know the artists of the future!
SOAPVLOG #1 - Malou
SOAPVLOG in which we get to know all our graduates and how they make work. In this episode we talk to Malou about her project 'Stressed, Depressed but well D...
01/05/2018
Joel Hunn, Melissa Schriek and Eva Borsboom, 3 of our 2018 graduates, would like to invite you for their walk-in Weimar exhibition on the 13th and 14th of May.
From a different angle, they explored diverse social issues in our current contemporary society through photography. These projects will be part of their graduation shown during the 2018 Graduation Festival at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague - KABK Den Haag.
Come by for some nice food, good coffee, conversations and have a look at their work.
Link to event: https://www.facebook.com/events/238430706900504/
Follow on Facebook and Instagram for more about our 2018 graduates!
Joel Hunn, Melissa Schriek and Eva Borsboom, 3 of our 2018 graduates, would like to invite you for their walk-in Weimar exhibition on the 13th and 14th of May.
From a different angle, they explored diverse social issues in our current contemporary society through photography. These projects are part of their commisioned work.
Come by for some nice food, good coffee, conversations and have a look at their work!
Link to event: https://www.facebook.com/events/238430706900504/
Stay up to date to follow their graduation projects as well during the graduation show from the 6th until the 12th of July in 2018 during the Graduation Festival at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague - KABK Den Haag.
Follow on Facebook and Instagram for more about our 2018 graduates!
14/02/2018
*//What have we been up to last semester?//*
While working on his commissioned assignment for Humanity House in The Hague, our classmate Marwan Bassiouni went looking for beauty and created The Ghost of the Sultan. We asked him what he learned along the way.
'I think that there's enough negativity in the world as it is. While working on the Sultan project I learned that the role of a documentary photographer can also be to seek and perceive beauty, and then to give form to it. In my definition beauty requires meaning, truth and goodness. It is vital and worth struggling for. The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once said that "Beauty can be a form of resistance".'
'The Ghost of the Sultan' is an installation of golden framed photographs with a text by Reverend Henry Christmas.
By mixing color and black and white, digital and analog photography, the 19th century Ottoman Sultan Abdelmajid I returns to life in order to remind us of the virtues required from an inspiring leader. Considering numerous ideas we have about the muslim religion today I wanted to emphasize that the essence of the religion of Islam should be – and always has been – peace. The word ‘Islam’ actually comes from the same root word as ‘peace’ (السلام).
Sultan Abdelmajid I may symbolize this peaceful essence. During his rule of the Ottoman Empire he undertook numerous reforms in favor of peaceful coexistence and equal rights for muslims and non-muslims. Noteworthy of his humanitarian approach is the great compassion he showed when donating a very large sum of aid money to the Irish during the Great Famine (1845-1850).