500 Photographers: Photographer #003: Rob Hornstra

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Photographer #003: Rob Hornstra

Rob Hornstra, 1975, is a Dutch Photographer who studied at the school of fine arts in Utrecht, NL. He graduated with the book Communism and Cowgirls. Currently he is working on a long-term project with filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen called the Sochi Project to document the changes that are occuring in the region where in 4 years from now will be the next winter olympics.

After the release of his book Roots of the Runtur in 2006 Hornstra presented his third book 101 billionaires. It displays the other side of the (new) acclaimed capitalism in Russia, behind the facade of money and wealth.

Website: www.borotov.nl & www.thesochiproject.org

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The target of this website is embedded in its name; to post active image-makers until we reach 500 photographers. The photographers can be from any discipline within the photographic range, but they have to be at the top of their game. When we get to number 500, we will have a deep database of great photographers.

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In the past twelve years he has ventured into projects ranging from artistic leadership of a photography festival, curatorial projects for various institutions worldwide, publishing books and a magazine, running a bookstore and gallery to creating the internationally acclaimed 500 Photographers project. He has done countless amounts of portfolio reviews, given masterclasses and judged a large number of competitions.

Due to the variety of endeavors and years of studying and speaking to photographers he quickly recognizes the features he believes to be of the utmost importance to be a successful photographer in this day and age.