Grandmother's hug
Caspar Claasen
My name is Caspar Claasen and I'm born in Oostzaan, Netherlands in 1975. I’m a photographer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. I am fascinated by extraordinary interactions between people, often individuals, and their everyday surroundings. How an apparently everyday moment can become a short story when photographed. How a non–scripted moment can appear so surreal, meaningful, esthetic or humorous that it looks scripted. But it isn't. I am thrilled when I succeed in doing this.
EDUCATION
1994 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
PUBLICATIONS
2018 Sporting series in DUMMY Magzine, Germany
2018 A selection of photos in ZEIT Magazine, Germany
2018 Book publication of Even Firemen, published by Plague Press
2017-11 Even Firemen article in Dutch newspaper Het Parool
2017 The Musea series featured in AnOther Magazine, Interview & Booooooom
2016-2017 A bi-monthly photocolumn with Dutch novelist Maartje Wortel for Dutch newspaper Trouw
2016 An article about my Musea series in De Correspondent
2016 Two photos from my Sporting series in Harper's Magazine, US
2015 Two photos from my Museas series in Harper's Magazine, US
2014 One of the featured photographers in David Gibson's book The Street Photographer's Manual (Thames & Hudson)
2014 Sporting series in New Dawn Magazine, NL
2011 GUP Magazine featured my photos from Chisinau, Moldova
EXHIBITIONS
2016 Have A Nice Weekend by Vormplatform, EKKO, Utrecht
2014 Great Last Minute Art Fair, Qlick Editions gallery, Rotterdam
2013 Art in Redlight, Qlick Editions gallery, Amsterdam
2013 ECHIE collective launch at Qlick Editions gallery, Amsterdam