until Sunday June 04 2017

Kunsthal Rotterdam
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The Netherlands

WIM MILLENAAR, FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER

In 1906 Willem Millenaar (Amsterdam, 1887-1955) sailed for Java as a sergeant with the Dutch colonial troops. He married the Javanese Elisabeth Loen and recorded his life story with a camera in no less than 7,777 family snapshots. In 1932 Millenaar returned to the Netherlands with his wife and six children. His photographs offer a fascinating glimpse of the ups and downs of a family that – like so many others – lived between two cultures.