Studio
Elementenstraat 3
1014 AR Amsterdam
Amsterdam / Anywhere
+316 11022900
Sem Langendijk (1990) has an interest in communities and their habitats, the urban environment and spatial arrangement. Growing up in the ‘hinterland’ of Amsterdam, Sem witnessed many changing sceneries throughout the years. He researches the relation between ‘home’ and public space, what impact communities have to their environment and how space functions within the structures of a city. He continues to balance his work on the very narrow edge between visual storytelling and poetic personal documentation. As an observer he carefully distances himself from his subjects to stay neutral in his observations and raise questions. His photography has a poetic visual language that grows on you while taking a closer look at his work.
Sem Langendijk studied documentary photography at the
Royal academy of Arts in The Hague, The Netherlands.
press British Journal of Photography
press British Journal of Photography
press Aint-Bad
press The Heavy Collective
press Fotoroom
press Landscape Stories ROAD
press Who Knows Mag
press New Dawn
Selected by The Photo Graduates 2016
2015 graduate Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
assisted Yann Stofer (Amsterdam), Dana Lixenberg (New York) & Andrew Phelps (Austria)
- clients:
Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Mondriaan Fonds, Van Lennep, Vandejong Creative agency, Ucon Acrobatics, ECCO, Rosefield, ETQ, Modemuze, Wintervacht, Cityhub Amsterdam, 1646 Gallery Den Haag, Arcadis Nederland, Royal Academy of Arts The Hague (curator International Bookfairs)
- editorial clients:
- selection of exhibitions:
2018
Foam First Editions
2016
NSJ (The Photo Graduates)
IMAGO/IMAGO (participant & curator group exhibition)
Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair
WTC Gallery Rotterdam (Undiscovered)
Bob Smit Gallery Rotterdam
2015
Graduation Festival 2015 KABK
Photo Festival Naarden
Hutspot van Wou