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Useful Photography Exhibition

Useful Photography

Useful Photography is the generic name of the millions of diverse photos, which are used daily for a purpose: photography with a clear function; the makers remain anonymous.

Think of photographs from sales catalogues, instruction manuals, packaging, advertising brochures and the Internet. Photos published, mostly without the makers names mentioned. It is precisely these photographs, which we are confronted with daily, without even being aware of it, that can sometimes hold our interest for an astonishingly long time. 

Useful Photography is published as a magazine once a year focusing on overlooked and underwhelming images taken for practical purposes and is collected & edited by Hans Aarsman, Julian Germain, Frank Schallmaier and Erik Kessels. (Previous editors: Claudie de Cleen and Hans van der Meer).