In his stories, documentary photographer and filmmaker Maarten Tromp (NL, 1980) captures modern society with a critical, engaged eye, and often lighthearted undertones. His sense of awe for the versatile natural world we are part of, and the way in which humankind is evolving drive his work.
Tromp graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague in 2005. His portraits of people in streets of East Amsterdam were collected in the well-received photobook ‘The neighbour, his ex and the owner of the laundrette’ (2008). The series ‘Recollections of Black Pete’ (2015-present) was shown at the Addis Foto Fest in Ethiopia (2018). In 2020, the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam presented ’Primates’, a body of work about our closest animal relatives living in rescue centres. His work has also been shown in the Cobra Museum for Modern Art, Museum Hilversum, FOTODOK and at Fotofestival Naarden.
