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Vreugdevuur Scheveningen
- Artist
- Romke Hoogwaerts
- Date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Gnomic Book
- Format
- Artists' Books
- ISBN
- 978-0-9985180-1-5
- Size
- 25.4 × 21 cm
- Length
- 160 pp
- Genre
- Photography
For the last two years, Romke Hoogwaerts has been developing the photobook and film of a story that takes place on the beaches of the The Hague, Holland, where every New Year’s Eve, two neighborhoods build rivaling bonfires.
After the Second World War, The Hague was a city of skirmishes every year over collections of discarded Christmas trees to burn on the night of the year’s passing; often, the violence on the streets leading up to every New Year’s Eve would get out of hand. With the blessing of the local authorities, the violence slowly evolved into a battle between Scheveningen and Duindorp, two coastal neighborhoods separated by a harbor, to see who could build the biggest bonfire.
Softcover, perfect-bound, colour.
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