Luuk Kramer

Luuk Kramer (Eindhoven, 1958) discovered the allure of photography in his youth when he received his first (plastic) camera. He was fascinated by the two-dimensional—at that time still black-and-white—image that emerged from the camera after a complex process.

He studied biology but interrupted his studies for an extended journey to India. During this trip, he decided to abandon his studies and retrain as a photographer. He completed a two-year program at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, graduating with the project Stone Fields – Cemeteries and Monuments of the First World War.

Over the years, he specialized in architectural, landscape, and art photography. Capturing space and exploring how we relate to it forms the common thread throughout his work.

In this exhibition, Kramer presents American Landscapes: photographs of the diverse terrains he traveled through during a stay of nearly five weeks in the southwestern United States. These landscapes, so different from those in Europe, invite the viewer to experience space in terms of distance and time, and to reflect on one’s position in relation to the earth and the nature surrounding us.