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  Over de Kloof die bestaat tussen jou en mij. en de verantwoordelijkheid die ik als fotograaf draag in de beeldvorming van de persoon voor de camera (2025) author(s): Tobias Reinbrandt Haan published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023 Photography In this research paper I aim to verbalize methods of working when portraying other people in order to find out how I want to tell the stories of people living in different social contexts than my own, through the realm of documentary making, in an honest and ethically justifiable way. My research consists of analyzing relevant aspects of the history of documentary photography over the last century. Through the work of artists like Dorothea Lange, Robert Capa, Nan Goldin & Susan Meiselas, a timeline is mapped out in which I recognize the role of the Western perspective and the changing dynamics within the domain of visual representation. Secondly, I make comparisons with the use of two case studies from the Netherlands. I describe elements of and reflect on the work of photographers Jan Hoek and Jan Dirk van der Burg, with both of whom I share an arguably similar background. By doing so, I counter their practices while verbalizing a way of working for myself. Lastly, the research done for the paper contains the tracing of my past, and the path that I have walked to come to this point. With the recognition of the privileges in my background, I have been able to better position myself as a photographer.
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  One day you shall only speak to the bees (2025) author(s): Matthew Seán Mc Carty published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  This work focuses on the position of the blow-in, or outsider in Irish society. From this, the text discusses Irish, queer and white guilt in isolated community dynamics. Questioning the acts of group assimilation, ascension and self-annihilation all through poetics.
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  One Must Imagine the Camera Rolling (2025) author(s): Luca Serafini published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023 B.A. Fine Arts In this research I probe the insides of the camera as a surveillant apparatus. I argue that a camera is not a passive object but rather an entity with agency in space. Questions will come up such as what is the existential condition of the camera? Has it seen too much? How does it feel to roll for eternity in hopes of witnessing an event which might take place over a single frame? Is this obsessive drive materialized as a black dome in a state of despair or bliss? What will be the view from the end of times when the last camera stands still? If the eye-lens is a mediator between exterior and interior and it has agency in our imaging of reality, but cameras and computer vision don’t really sense in images, what are we gazing at and what are they gazing at? We will get started by coming up with definitions, dissecting the camera apparatus, addressing its correlations with our eyes, tracing a paralel between surveillance and religion in chapter 1. Chapter 2 sharpens the foreground with New Materialist and Media Archeological lens – a sort of macro into its circuits and raw materials. Rotating the focus ring to chapter 3, our eyes turn to a collection of letters addressed to different surveillance cameras I have encountered. Chapter 4 removes its lens, the camera laid bare to a high-powered laser as a novel practice of intra-action. A telescope lens is then attached to the camera in Chapter 5, and we’ll look far into the edges of our time. Finally, a global shutter attemps to scan the whole image with concluding remarks, and fails.
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  Notes on how to be boringly surprised. Negativity, Affect, Intensity (2025) author(s): Carles Hidalgo published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Photography The thesis seeks to analyze a type of negative reasoning that may arise during specific gay intimate encounters. It does so by relating it to absurdism, failure, rejection and the unimaginable. In order to get there, the paper focuses on the power of affects as incongruent impulses that can lead to unexpected situations. t also addresses the moments after this reasoning, when those intense impulses need a specific management. The research is also supported by an autofictional story that tries to question the inert and, in occasions, disappointing qualities of academic knowledge.
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  Non-Binary Binary Pixels (2025) author(s): Roberto Romano published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 BA Interactive Media Design This thesis investigates the techno-cultural implications of the internet, through the socio economic and philosophical consequences of the digitally mediated self. The human condition is destined to be transformed. This essay is a fictional presentation of the journey of the self into the different shapes and forms of simulation. What could possibly signify for a body to transcent its shapes and forms? Would it become something more of a human?Or maybe less?
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  No purpose city : sketching the affordances of informality (2025) author(s): Malte Leon Sonnenschein published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 MA Interior Architecture (INSIDE) In investigating the meaning, tasks, and opportunities of public spaces, this thesis is dealing with those parts of public realm whose lack of infrastructure inhibits their usability. Surrounded by function-driven urban areas, I identify those as no purpose cities within the city. I propose a working method that sketches, models, and experiments with such spaces to test their affordances in one-to-one. I claim that constant change is a necessity for a successful and relevant public sphere, as statically designed spaces cannot live up to the needs of a constantly changing, fluid society. The activist designer extends the experientiality by exploring the direct usability of no purpose spaces. In defining this design position the urgent need for the work of active spatial designers is proven, as they play an agile role in the fabric of urban development processes.
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