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Playground 2020 - Diptych series on young people and their favorite spot in the public space during Covid. (txt below)

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Photo's from the award-winning serie Playground 2020 from Dutch photographer Erik van Cuyk. During Covid Van Cuyk took his camera and drove to The Netherlands to talk to young people. He portrayed them in the public space, next to the places where they like to hang out.

Playground 2020

The diptychs-series was exhibited at Photofesitval Naarden

In the PLAYGROUND project, the 'urban' youth is abstracted from the location ('the system') by placing them in the form of a diptych next to the location, rather than within it. The young people are photographed in a classical way (black canvas and 'Rembrandt light'), by which I place their inner universal power against the future.

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>BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

>FOCUS MAGAZINE

>NRC HANDELSBLAD

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