Wim van Sinderen (born 10 January 1958) is a Dutch

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and

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, working as photography curator at the

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Live and work

Van Sinderen was born in

Dokkum Dokkum is a Dutch fortified city in the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland. It has 12,669 inhabitants (February 8, 2020). The fortifications of Dokkum are well preserved and are known as the ''bolwerken'' (bulwarks). ...

on January 10, 1958. From 1976 to 1982 he attended the Teacher Training College 'Ubbo Emmius' in

Leeuwarden Leeuwarden (; fy, Ljouwert, longname=yes /; Town Frisian: ''Liwwadden''; Leeuwarder dialect: ''Leewarden'') is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 123,107 (2019). It is the provincial capital and seat of the ...

, where he received his BA in English language and literature and Fine Arts. In 1981 Van Sinderen came into prominence as spokesman of a young artist group, called ''Jonge Friezen.'' A year earlier they had started a new cultural magazine, called ''Het Bestaan'' (The Existence). He took part is several exhibitions in those days and published his first book. In 1982 Van Sinderen started his career as Photo Editor for the Amsterdam music magazine ''Vinyl''. He was curator at the

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from the start in April 1992, where he worked with the director

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. In 2002 he started as Senior Curator at

.Bert Dirks, "Ik kan zó veel laten zien nu," ''de Volkskrant,'' 19 december 2016.

Publications

* Wim van Sinderen (ed.) ''Fotografen in Nederland : een anthologie 1852–2002,'' 2002 * Wim van Sinderen (et al.), ''Helena van der Kraan.'' The Hague Museum of Photography, Den Haag : Terra, 2005. . *

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, William Ewing, Wim van Sinderen, Nathalie Herschdorfer. ''Leonard Freed: Worldview'' with Lausanne:

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, 2007. * Maartje van den Heuvel & Wim van Sinderen. ''Photography! A Special Collection at Leiden University''. Leiden: Leiden University & The Hague Museum of Photography, 2010.

References

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