Sem Langendijk is a contemporary photographer with an interest in communities and their habitats. His research involves examining the identity of a place and the relation people have with their environment. Choosing to shoot on large and medium format cameras lends a certain tranquility and poeticism to his work, in which he blends his visual storytelling with personal documentation. He has an honest and direct approach to his portraiture work. He holds a BA in Photography from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, and works for editorial clients such as WSJ Magazine, Bloomberg Business and The Economist. He is a recipient of the Mondriaan Stipend for Emerging Artists, and Langendijk’s work is acquired by numerous private collections. He self-publishes his work in the form of high quality offset-printed booklets which you can find in the bookstore.
Grants
2021 Project grant, Mondriaan Fund
2018 Stipend for Emerging Artists, Mondriaan Fund
2018 Project grant, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Selected Exhibitions
2020 Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam
2019 The American Landscape, Expo Chicago *group show Iwan Baan, Marie
Jose Jongerius, Bert Theunissen and Charlotte Dumas.
2019 The American Landscape, LA PHOTO *group show Iwan Baan, Marie
Jose Jongerius, Bert Theunissen and Charlotte Dumas.
2019 Lot, Sotheby's Amsterdam
2019 Lot, Showroom Camiel Fortgens, Paris Fashion Week
2019 Agency, Helsinki Photofestival
2018 The American Landscape, Miami Art Basel *group show Iwan Baan, Marie
Jose Jongerius, Bert Theunissen and Charlotte Dumas.
2018 The Docklands Project, The Gallery Club Amsterdam
2018 Foam First Edition
2018 Agency, Pakhuis de Zwijger
2015 Thesis Project, Fotofestival Naarden
Education
2020 Mentoring program, Rob Hornstra, Utrecht
2015 BA, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2015 Internship, Dana Lixenberg, New York
2014 Internship, Andrew Phelps, Austria
Selected Clients
WSJ Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist, The Wire, Purple Magazine, HighLife British Airways, SoFoot Magazine, Rocketscience Magazine, PS Parool, Aedes Real Estate, Ecco, Superstories, Rabobank, N=5, Triodosbank
Press/Interviews
British Journal of Photography
Then There Was Us
Darwin Magazine
Het Parool
Heavy Collective
Aint-Bad
Fotoroom