Erwin Olaf at the Museum of Photography

Last Saturday was the opening of Erwin Olaf's last series of photographs at the Fotomuseum:

Rain, Hope Grief & Fall
27 September 2008 - 18 January 2009

With their averted eyes half open, staring into nothingness, the models in the photographs in Erwin Olaf’s latest series, Fall, evoke a strange kind of aloofness. The portraits are interspersed with still lifes of plants and flowers in simple ceramic vases. With its use of colour, the strange, almost awkward expressions on the faces of the models and the almost unreal setting, the series Fall is in some ways the logical successor to the earlier series Grief, Hope and Rain. This autumn, all four will be on display together for the first time in a retrospective at The Hague Museum of Photography (Fotomuseum).

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