Portraits, industrial photography, architecture,
still-lifes, landscapes, the ups and downs of everyday life: they
are all there in the work of Harry Cock.
Since 1980 Harry Cock has been working from his home town of Assen,
not only for businesses and public authorities but especially for magazines
and newspapers. He is a regular staffer on Noorderbreedte, the magazine
for landscape, regional planning, art and cultural history for the
North Netherlands.
He enjoys a national reputation for his work for the Volkskrant. Although
he travels all around The Netherlands for this daily newspaper (and
with some regularity, outside The Netherlands too), most of his work
is shot in the northern Netherlands. In that, Cock is one of the few ‘Northerners’ who
publishes pictures of this region at the national level.
The ways in which people try to keep their bearings in changing situations
is a recurrent theme in Cock’s 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.
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. Some of the photographs have been
previously published, but at least as often they are pictures that
have surfaced from his archive – to the surprise of their maker.
They are photos that he had forgotten about, or that, in retrospect,
turn out to show more than they revealed at first glance.
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.
In Cock’s own words, it is “an exhibition about townspeople
and country men, the countryside and construction, the road and the
view. It is about what changes and what remains the same. And about
how everything always turns out all right in the end.”
The book Omstreken (Environs) will appear to accompany the exhibition,
with texts by Marcel Möring and Eddie Marsman. It can be ordered
in the Noorderlicht webshop.
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