Environs: Harry Cock

In Environs Cock presents a selection from over twenty-five years of his work, concentrating on the photographs that he has made in the North of The Netherlands. The way in which people try to keep their bearings in changing situations is a recurrent theme in his work. What is striking about this is his often nimble, humorous approach. Certainly when he turns his camera on the ups and downs of (and in) the urbanizing landscape, his visual language is extremely recognizable. In both black and white and color he has an almost poetic eye for the small things in life.

Environs contains a selection of the photographs he took between 1980 and 2006, of daily-life business, in The Netherlands as well as during his foreign travels to, among others, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, the Gaza strip and North America. Some of the photographs had been published previously, but at least as often they are pictures that have surfaced from his archive - to the surprise of their maker. Collectively they offer an overview of Cock's development as a photographer, and, sometimes in the background, sometimes in the foreground, they also reflect something of the changes that have taken place in Dutch society over the course of time.

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Photographer
Harry Cock (b. Assen, NL, 1952). Portraits, industrial photography, architecture, landscapes, the ups and downs of everyday life, they are all there in his work. Since 1980 he has been working not only for business and public authorities but especially for magazines and newspapers. He enjoys a national reputation for his work for the Volkskrant, one of Netherlands' quality daily papers. Although he travels throughout all of The Netherlands for this newspaper, most of his work is shot in the northern part of The Netherlands. Cock is one of the few 'Northerners' who publishes pictures of this region at the national level.

Curating
Harry Cock in cooperation with Eddie Marsman, Noorderlicht, 2006.

Catalogue
A catalogue appeared with Environs. It contains, apart from an extensive selection of visual material, mainly black and white, essays by author Marcel Möring and photography reviewer Eddie Marsman. The catalogue can be supplied with the exhibition for sale. Visit our bookshop for more details.

Size of the exhibition
The exhibition includes 60 photographs. Space required: a minimum of 100 running meters of wall area (dependent on the manner of hanging). In consultation with Noorderlicht you can make a suitable selection, tailored to the space you have available.

Presentation
The images are matted and framed, with glass. The sizes of the images are 30x30 cm and 60x60 cm. The sizes of the frames vary, from 40x40 cm (smallest) to 100x100 cm (largest). No special picture hanging system is required. We can advise you with regard to layout and design.

Availability
The exhibition is available through 2010.