Jacqueline Hassink - Jacqueline Hassink Yudo Harada Frits Gierstberg Kartoniert (TB)

Unwired combines two concurrent projects from the Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink (*1966 in Enschede) both of which sharpen our eye for an increasingly digitally connected world. In Unwired Landscapes she has sought out places where it is impossible to build a network where there is pure radio silence so to speak-remote areas like the Japanese island of Yakushima the Norwegian group of islands Svalbard known as Spitsbergen or the uninhabitable volcanic desert of Iceland are caught by her lens as are artificially created dead zones in urban spaces such as a Digital Detox Hotel in B aden Baden. Initially her second project iPortrait seems to be the exact opposite of her first. In this project Hassink portrays people immersed in their smartphones in the subways of big cities such as New York Paris London Moscow Shanghai Seoul and Tokyo. Here she reveals the other side of digital networking which interferes with direct contact between human beings. Exhibition: Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam 20.1.-6.5.2018