Website David Galjaard

Showcase at Van Stockum bookstore 8 Mei 2012 Concresco has its own showcase at the Van Stockum bookstore in The Hague, where the book is also for sale. Apart from this website, you can also buy the book at: - Het Nederlands Fotomuseum (the Dutch Photo museum) - Gallery: Lief hertje en de Grote Witte Reus - STROOM Den Haag



Concresco at Milan Image Art Fair 6 Mei 2012 Thanks to the FotografenFederatie and Nina Post (Post Editions), my book is for sale at the Milan Image Art Fair.



Book review by GUP magazine 5 Mei 2012 "Concresco is more than a visual witness to the ravages of communism; it’s almost a wistful ode to the 750,000 bunkers marring the Albanian landscape, anchored deeper in the history and collective unconscious of the country than in its land itself. Unadorned and probably unretouched, taken from the distance of an outside observer, David Galjaard’s photos perspire the bleakness of the fall out of a 50 year long dictatorship..." read more



Concresco is officially for sale! 22 April 2012 From today Concresco is officially for sale. Check out a preview of the book, or order it right away in the SHOP



Urbanautica 17 April 2012 My book is featured on Urbanautica. Check out this great website especially dedicated to contemporary landscape photography.



Concresco at PhotoIreland 9 April 2012 Concresco is selected to attend at the "International Portfolio Reviews" at the Photo Ireland Festival. During the weekend my work will be "evaluated by international and Irish curators, gallery owners, festival directors, publishers and other photography professionals".



The first pages were printed! 2 Februari 2012 You can find more information about the production of my photo book Concresco on the Facebook page



Concresco on nalden.net 8 December 2011 A few days ago I was invited by the lifestyle website nalden.net to put a preview of Concresco on their site. As a "slow photographer" it feels pretty good to be on one of the fastest sites on the net!



The pre-sale of my photo book: Concresco starts today! 26 November 2011 Concresco is the result of a project I worked on, with a lot of pleasure, for three years. What started as a fascination for a country covered in bunkers, became a deep interest in the history and development of Albania. Check out a preview of the series in Work, or order the book right away in my new Shop.



New "commissioned work" online 16 Augustus 2011 Ever since March of this year, I've been making a weekly photograph for the economy page of the NRC Handelsblad (national Dutch newspaper). Next to this, I had work commissioned in the last couple of months by NRC Next, graphic designer Koen Geurts, documentary maker Martijn Payens (IDFA) and architectural magazines KEI-A5 and KEI-E1. A selection of the work is presented under the titel Tearsheets.



Pitch in the pocket 5 Juli 2011 Last night I won the photo-pitch of De Donkere Kamer (The Dark Room) #5! In order to make the public even more enthusiastic about the project, my designer and I had chosen 3 photos from the project and made 100 buttons of each one that people could take home free of charge. I'm not sure if that was what made the difference, but winning the pitch is nevertheless a great start of the budget for the book. As cherry on the cake, Hans Rooseboom (curator of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam) made the three buttons part of the museum's collection of photography. You can read the report of the evening on PhotoQ.nl



Photo-pitch at De Donkere Kamer 19 Juni 2011 "De Donkere Kamer is an evening of inspiring projects, crisp views and talks on current topics in the photography world." On the 4th of july I will pitch my latest photo project Concresco, hoping to collect some money for the realization of the book. Here's how it works: three photographers present their project in three minutes and the audience decides how the fee for the evening is spread over these three projects. Take all your friends and do not forget to make a reservation on the website.



Nomination: De Gouden Grijns (The Golden Grin) 27 April 2011 De Gouden Grijns is a new, annual price for the funniest photograph of the year. The competition is organized by photographers Roger Cremers and Merlijn Doomernik to "stimulate the appreciation of humor in Dutch photography". I'm proud to say that I was nominated, but the rightful winner was Hans Palmboom. You can read more about the competition and see this year's nominations and winner on the website of De Gouden Grijns.



New studio 20 November 2010 After a renovation of almost two months, I now have a wonderful new studio in De Besturing. This is a studio complex in the industrial area the Binckhorst in The Hague. There are studios for 28 people, working as artists, architects, furniture designers, graphic designers, filmmakers or as a cartoonist.



New assignments 11 September 2010 During summer, I was commissioned two new assignments: a series, consisting of seven parts, about senses (NRC Weekblad) and - together with Christian van der Kooy - a 15 part summer series about associations and clubs in the Netherlands (NRC Next). A selection of the work is presented in Work (Club Life) and under the titel Tearsheets



DH// - Magazine about art in Den Haag 25 Mei 2010 The second issue of the magazine DH//, a publication by Stroom, contains one of the pictures from the series When The Siren Goes. “... The magazine is intended for art lovers as much as curators, art institutes, artists and artist initiatives, and its 10.000 copies will be spread internationally. DH// will be launched at Art Amsterdam...” This publication can be ordered through the website of Stroom (in Dutch).



Back from Albania 21 Mei 2010 Fund BKVB enabled me to return to Albania for the third time to continue working on my project Concresco. This project is now supported by other professionals, including the croatian journalist Slavenka Drakuliç and documentarian Martijn Payens.



Photo auction Haiti 20 Januari 2010 For the next few weeks, a large number of photographers offer their work via the online photo sale by auction on the PhotoQ website. The profit is intended for the rebuilding of an orphanage in Haiti. It concerns the care of thirteen children by the Dutch Lia van de Donk. - The auction is over and the picture was sold -



Abania Express 28 Mei 2009 April 2009 - together with photographer Christian van der Kooy I made a one month journey to Albany, where we both worked on individual projects. The results of this trip will be on this website shortly.



Next question at Photo-Festival Naarden 23 Mei 2009 NRC Next, a dutch newspaper, had invited Christian and me and three other photographers to speak at a conference of PFN about the identity of Next photography. Due to our stay abroad we were compelled to speak through Skype from our hotel room in Zagreb (Croatia). At least we had the advantage to have a beer during the conference!



Goodbye Annelies, hello wallpaper 3 Maart 2009 On March 31st Annelies Kuiper, chief editor of photography at NRC Next, said goodbye to start her new job as intendant of documentary photography at BKVB Fund. As a final stunt she had wallpaper made from a birdview picture of the editorial office, consisting of 1050 photos made by Christian and me. During the night the three of us put the wallpaper up in the editorial office.



Farewell Norfolk 19 Februari 2009 Scheveningen, 2006 - the last ship of shipping company Norfolkline set course to Dover for a final trip. I made a series of ten pictures of this event, which were bought by the City Archives of The Hague.



The sheep lives! 14 Augustus 2008 On August 12 NRC Next published a picture from The Last Stop of a sheep on its back in the summer series Tourist in own country. Worried readers have contacted the editorial office to find out if the sheep had survived, since sheep on their backs usually don’t live longer than thirty minutes. Rest assured, the sheep had come back to its feet by itself and seemed perfectly all right.



The Last Stop 15 Juli 2008 Together with several authors and my colleague Christian van der Kooy I looked for interesting last stops in Holland. By train, bus and underground we reached the routes’ end and registered what we encountered. These pictures were published in NRC Next.



Fly on the Wall 1 April 2008 The first edition of Next.One, NRC Next’s monthly magazine, will be issued this month. In the recurring feature Fly on the Wall my colleague Christian van der Kooy and I will hover – with our camera - over living rooms.