Herman van den Boom

Who is Herman van den Boom?

Herman van den Boom is a Belgian photographer.

Van den Boom received his education at the Eindhoven's Academy for Industrial Design, at the Academy for Fine Arts Enschede, and at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. He became a photography professor later in his career and taught at the AKI, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and at the Photography Academy for Fine Arts Maastricht, and lately at the Foto Factory, Amsterdam.

Travelling is a central element in his work and many of his photographs are taken on the road. Belgium, the United States, France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Mexico, among others, appear in his pictures. Van den Boom works mainly with photographs, although he has also produced collages and sculptures. His photographs are both black and white and colour images with nature, cityscapes and human figures as a main subject. The resulting product evokes the poetry of the real world, in search of striking vantage points and light effects.

"Herman van den Boom's ability to notice details that he then plays against the broader backgrounds of society and culture turn his work into esthetical, intriguing studies in human landscape that should be approached as metaphors questioning the way we are and live as human beings."