Document Nederland: Schraal9 december 2006 / 4 maart 2007

Geert van Kesteren photographs Hidden Poverty in the Netherlands
In collaboration with NRC Handelsblad newspaper, the Rijksmuseum is organising the ninth photography exhibition centred on the annual 'Document Nederland' photography assignment. With the title Bare, Hidden Poverty in the Netherlands is the theme for this year's exhibition. It will be about those who literally live 'below the minimum', people who scrape by on a social security payment or old-age pension and as a result end up living on the outskirts of society. People who have been sent to the food bank because the supermarket is too expensive, and for whom life has literally become bare. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration with Huis Marseille, where the Rijksmuseum is now being temporarily housed for the second year.

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Geert van Kesteren/Magnum Photos,
2006