Hans Aarsman is a Dutch

Netherlands

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 photographer, author

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, and lecturer at the Rijksakademie

Rijksakademie

The Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten is a two-year residency for visual artists, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Funded by the Dutch government, residents are granted a stipend and are allotted a personal studio in the former military barracks building in which the Rijksakademie is housed...

 in Amsterdam; known as a significant figure in the New Topography movement. Many of his works are in the Netherlands Photo Museum

He started his career as a photojournalist for the Dutch newspaper Trouw

Trouw

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. In 1989 he published the book Hollandse Taferelen which consisted of landscape

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s photographed from the roof of a camper which he pulled through the Netherlands for a year. In 1990–1991 he finished a photo series of East German states. Other photobooks produced by Aarsman include Aarsmans Amsterdam (1993), Een engeltje dat over mijn tong piest vor (1995), and Vrooom!Vrooom! (2003).

Aarsman also is a novelist and playwright

Playwright

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. His debut literary work was Twee hoofden, een kussen (1995) and recently he has been dedicating himself more to writing than photography.