2024
Pre-order new book: AMERICAN
AVAILABLE FROM DECEMBER 13, 2024
Pre-order here: HANNIBAL Publishers
Launch new project: AMERICAN
AMERICAN” is a collection of audio, film and photographic portraits by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Robin de Puy. The series, which comprises 25 episodes, was created in the U.S. between 2022 and 2024 (last summer she created 9 new episodes). Her images invite us to look closer at, and listen to, the stories of a cross-section of people who make up one of the world’s most powerful, extreme and divisive countries, at a politically turbulent and poignant time. Beyond globally renowned celebrities and politicians whose voices and opinions we are privy to, what are the thoughts, concerns and dreams of the largely unheard people of America?
The project is available to view in its entirety now at robin-de-puy-american.wetransfer.com, an interactive microsite, designed by WeTransfer's creative studio, featuring never-before-seen images and conversations between de Puy and her subjects.
AMERICAN comes to life through billboards displayed along Nevada’s historic Route 50, commonly known as ‘the loneliest road in America’. These images trace the path of de Puy’s month-long expedition, embodying both the literal and symbolic journey she undertook to capture these deeply personal stories.
BOTTER for ELLE Magazine
The Unintentional Swim
On show in: The National Maritime Museum
February 23 - October 7, 2024 (extended till January 2025)
With the photography exhibition Rescuers at sea The Maritime Museum celebrates 200 years of the Dutch Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM). The exhibition highlights volunteers of the KNRM and shows who these people are.
KORF for Bijenkorf
KORF, de stijlkrant van de Bijenkorf, vol inspiratie, trends en verhalen. In dit eerste issue, in het Olympische jaar, richten we onze lens op grensverleggers in sport en mode.
Waters and More
15.06.2024 - 08.09.2024
Waters and more - Musea Zutphen
The exhibition Waters & Meer – Robin de Puy is on show at the Museum Henriette Polak from 15 June to 8 September 2024. Waters & Meer includes a selection from this renowned photographer’s recent projects Down By The Water (2022) and Waters (2023). The distinctive style of her work and the impressive portraits that she makes will appeal to a wide audience.
Emily, Twin Falls, ID
Emily (6), Twin Falls, Idaho
Drowned in dark thoughts I wander through a big Walmart in Twin Falls, Idaho. It is the intense gaze of a young girl that brings me back to earth. In times of despair the look of the kid is comforting as well as painful: the ultimate imagination of innocence, which only a child can show. Sitting in a shopping cart, being pushed by her big sister, the world is passing by.
I would love to photograph the girl. I nervously approach them, scared of being rejected. “Is your mom here too?”, I ask. “She in the restroom, but she will be back soon”, the sister says. Meanwhile the bright blue eyes of the little girl are starring right through me. I try to keep the conversation going, without appearing to be a creepy stalker. When the mother joins us, the big sister has already found me on Instagram and wants to take a selfie with me. Mom is keeping an appropriate distance and I see her – understandable – concerns. I give her my phone number and await. Not much later I receive the message I was hoping for: “You can come over.”
The name of the girl is Emily. Her intellectual disability sometimes makes things harder, but because of the loving presence of big sister Kenzie (15), brother Lucas (8), mom Ashley (40) and dog Piper she can move quite carelessly through life. In contradiction with a lot of struggling parents, her mom has, with the help of school and doctors, paved a way through the complex American bureaucracy with as a result a happy, healthy kid in school. “Without the help I could not have done it.”
Like a little kitten Emily plays in the grass. Continuously she is approaching me closer and closer, followed by running away or hiding in her pink jacket. Everything is sweet about her. Her light, fine hairs, the bread crumbs on her chin, the small hands which are holding a (still frozen) peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the nearly rolling tear that arises because of the wind and the accompanying booger
An innocent child. Freely she rolls through the grass and I roll with her. I want nothing more than to forget or not know – it works.