#Exhibition - The Netherlands
The Underground Camera
5/1/2025
10/2/2025
Foam presents The Underground Camera, an exhibition that features work from Dutch photographers who captured the consequences of the German occupation during the 1944-45 ‘famine winter’ in Amsterdam.
The exhibition The Underground Camera is inspired by the celebrations of Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary and 80 years of liberation.
With their photographs, The Underground Camera group made a significant contribution to the image of the Second World War. The photographers were recruited by members of the resistance, with the aim of informing the Dutch government in London. They worked independently and under the dangerous conditions of an occupied city, with hard-to-obtain, often poor-quality equipment. The exhibition provides an impressive picture of the consequences of hunger and cold in the dismantled Amsterdam at the end of the war.
The group of photographers included Cas Oorthuys, Emmy Andriesse, Charles Breijer, Kryn Taconis, and Ad Windig, among others.
The exhibition will be opened on Thursday 1 May by the mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema. Join us from 17.30 until 21.00 hrs for this celebratory event at Foam. Learn more: Opening The Underground Camera | Foam: all about photography
Keizersgracht 609 1017 DS Amsterdam
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Organiser: Foam