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Guide to Unique Photography 
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LowLands speciaL ‘08
COntents
09 new(s)
Nice and Need to Know Photography Items.
14 Book review(s)
International Selected Books
on Festival Photography. 
28 portfolio Krijn van noordwijk
Famous Festival Faces.
42 Collectors tip
Hanekroot’s Vintage Pop Photography.
46 portfolio elza Jo
Elza Shot Her Own Lowlands Party. 
58 portfolio Barry Kornbluh
Black & White Film, Large Grains 
and Iconic Shots. 
72 portfolio Otto snoek
Pure Vision Straight Out of Rotterdam
84 portfolio titia hahne
Yes, Those Pictures Were Taken at Lowlands.
94 portfolio simone Bär
Surrealistic Portraits.
106 portfolio Boudewijn Bollmann
Twisted Festival Streets.
106 Bkmrks
Eight Classic Album Sleeves and Their Stories.
118 portfolio Dennis Duijnhouwer
The Results Of A Hectic Trip.
Coverimage Krijn van Noordwijk
BOOKreVieW(s) 
Holland’s biggest unknown 
photographer is Nico van 
der Stam (1925-2000). He 
independently captured – self-
taught man that he was – the 
up-and-coming Dutch popscene 
and anything else Holland was 
into from the international scene 
in the 60s and early 70s. Due to 
the fact that the photographer 
and many of the artists were new 
to the scene, many of the photos 
consist of uneasy poses snapped 
in a rush for papers, magazines 
and record sleeves. As a result 
they have remained low-profile. 
Nevertheless, ‘Yesterday’ is 
worth it’s weight as a historical 
document and is reinforced by 
personal memoirs from authors 
Roel Bentz van den Berg, Sjoerd 
Kuyper and Thomas Verbogt.
Yesterday 
by Nico van der Stam
Softcover
260 pages, 16 x 22 cm
200 photographs 
Voetnoot Publishers, 2008
ISBN 9789078068129
€ 25.00
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BOOKreVieW(s) 
When Martijn van de Griendt and Jasper Groen share interest 
in each others work via chat, it’s obvious that they both have 
a thing for photographing Emos: Alternative kids with all the 
exterior characteristics of gothics, cybers, punkers and well, 
elfs. Put briefly, they tend to be youths of a gentle disposition 
who don’t want to be categorised. ‘Finding Emo’ is the 
amalgamation of work from a quest to record the newest 
subculture within Dutch youth culture brought to publication in 
a razor sharp and, above all, touching way.
Finding emo 
by Martijn van de Griendt & Jasper Groen
Softcover
Published, 2008
€ 20.00
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BOOKreVieW(s) 
In July 2007 Peter Koudstaal made his way to THE 
festival in the Far East: Fuji Rock. The popularity 
of the festival doesn’t have as much to do with 
the stunning location at Naeba Ski Resort than 
it does with the line-up. While the music offer in 
Japan might be plentiful with all the boybands 
and idol stars, a huge 100.000 people went for the 
‘alternative’ sounds of Muse, The Lost Prophets 
and Iggy Pop. The book gives a good insight into 
the festival, though it has to be said that the photos 
of the visitors are far more interesting to see than 
the dull images of the popstars.
Vignettes of 
Fuji rock 
by Peter Koudstaal
Hardcover
88 pages, 26 x 22 cm
Full color/b&w photographs
It’s A Book! Publishing, 2008
ISBN 9789081278119
€ 15.00
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BOOKreVieW(s) 
For the month of August the village of Benicàssim 
– located somewhere between Barcelona and 
Valencia – is the music capital of Europe. The 
line-up of hundreds of artists and the thousands of 
visitors spread throughout four massive podiums 
have made the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 
what it is for fourteen years now. A real meeting 
place for low and high-brow culture. MUSAC – 
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León 
– sent out six renowned photographers to capture 
a novel part of the Spanish cultural heritage. The 
photographs can not only be found in the book but 
also as an exhibition travelling through Spain.
Benicàssim. el Festival 
by Carmela García, Cristina García Rodero, Immo Klink, 
Ángel Marcos, Álvaro Villarrubia & Massimo Vitali
Hardcover
144 pages, 37.7 (open: 75.4) x 29.9 cm
Full-colour photographs
ACTAR/MUSAC, 2008
ISBN 9788496954274
€ 49.00
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BOOKreVieW(s) 
We’ll sleep at home. 
the Festival Feeling in the 
netherlands and Belgium
by Arne van Terphoven & Isabella Rozendaal
Rain, sunshine, grass, mud, drink, drugs, rickety 
tents and lots of noise: The sure-fire ingredients 
of any good festival. These are also the ingredients 
for ‘WE’LL SLEEP AT HOME - The Festival Feeling 
in the Netherlands and Belgium’, the first book 
to cover the festival experience in the Low-lying 
countries. Author Arne van Terphoven pens 
inimitable stories about organisers, artists and 
visitors at various festivals including Rock Werchter, 
Pinkpop, Pukkelpop and Lowlands. The festivalgoer 
also gets some survival-tips and a history lesson 
about the portaloo. One minute you’re taken to 
the moshpit, the next you’re in the deep of night 
at the camping ground. All in all a proper festival 
bible, complete with photography from Isabella 
Rozendaal. www.isabellarozendaal.com
the Festival Feeling
Hardcover
228 pages, 24 x 30 cm
100 photographs
Publisher L.J. Veen, May 2009
ISBN 9789020423723
€ 19.90
Portfolio, Q&A All images © Krijn van Noordwijk
A gazebo, four camping chairs, burning candles on 
the table and a front garden comprising of six plastic 
sunflowers. In his improvised studio backstage Krijn van 
Noordwijk didn’t meet the minor artists. And the more 
colourful it was outside, the darker it was in the ‘booth’. 
The result: subtle profiles plucked out of the darkness. 
Not only Krijn but you too come face to face with the ‘big 
names of Lowlands’. www.krijnvannoordwijk.com
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Portfolio Krijn van Noordwijk 
History, GUP Collectors TipText: Jochem Rijlaarsdam
Black Thought - The Roots
Portfolio, Q&A All images © Hendrik Kerstens
Sven Väth
History, GUP Collectors TipText: Jochem Rijlaarsdam
Questlove - The Roots
GUP’s 
Favourite 
Visitor 
Photo #1
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Portfolio Elza Jo All images © Elza Jo
We bumped into elza Jo many times 
at Lowlands in the past. Not that she 
can remember anything about those 
meetings, but hey, she wasn’t working 
at the time... She was there last year 
too, all sober – but we weren’t. That 
gave us an inkling of hope so we 
asked here to come with us this 
year. Brilliant! Not that we saw her 
or anything, she recorded her own 
version of Lowlands, of which we were 
evidently not part of. After seeing 
the photos, she let her cut, paste and 
drawing skills loose on a few of them.
www.elzajo.com
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Santogold with dancers
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All images © Barry KornbluhPortfolio Barry Kornbluh
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New Yorker Barry 
Kornbluh got his first 
Leica in the 80’s. He 
walked the streets of 
the big apple shooting 
interesting stuff that, in 
Barry’s case, could be 
anything anywhere. Street 
energy was the thing that 
made him tick. In the 90’s 
he moved to Amsterdam 
and found it difficult to 
detect those New York 
atmospheres. We invited 
him to Lowlands because 
of his distinct and abstract 
style of photography. And 
guess what happened, 
Barry retrieved a sense 
of New York just outside 
Biddinghuizen. A kind of 
freedom. Anonymous in 
the crowd. Shooting away. 
No one cared.
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BIDDINGHUIZEN. Maaike 
Kemps (21, onder op de foto) en 
Anne van Dam (22) kwamen op het 
idee toen ze de programmaboekjes 
voor Lowlands in handen kregen. 
Anne: “We wilden opvallen. Een 
foto maken om in te leveren bij de 
GUPmagazine-stand. Naakt halen 
we die speciale Lowlands-editie 
wel, dachten we.” Voorwaarde was 
echter dat ze samen op de foto 
gingen, dus was de vraag hoe ze 
dat voor elkaar konden krijgen. 
Fotograaf Martijn van de Griendt 
struinde opdat moment over het 
campingterrein en bood aan de 
meisjes te fotograferen. “Best eng, 
maar het was tenslotte warm, en er 
stond een rij bij de ingang van 
het festivalterrein, dus we had-
den toch niets te doen”, vertelt 
Anne. “Trouwens die boekjes 
waren groot genoeg, je ziet 
bijna niks.”
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BIDDINGHUIZEN. Maaike 
Kemps (21, onder op de foto) en 
Anne van Dam (22) kwamen op het 
idee toen ze de programmaboekjes 
voor Lowlands in handen kregen. 
Anne: “We wilden opvallen. Een 
foto maken om in te leveren bij de 
GUPmagazine-stand. Naakt halen 
we die speciale Lowlands-editie 
wel, dachten we.” Voorwaarde was 
echter dat ze samen op de foto 
gingen, dus was de vraag hoe ze 
dat voor elkaar konden krijgen. 
Fotograaf Martijn van de Griendt 
struinde op dat moment over het 
campingterrein en bood aan de 
meisjes te fotograferen. “Best eng, 
maar het was tenslotte warm, en er 
stond een rij bij de ingang van 
het festivalterrein, dus we had-
den toch niets te doen”, vertelt 
Anne. “Trouwens die boekjes 
waren groot genoeg, je ziet 
bijna niks.”
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“Sid Vicious would turn in his grave if he 
could see the punks lining up for the coins 
like upright citizens.” Photographer Otto 
Snoek is amazed that all the sub-cultures 
at Lowlands melt together so happily 
to form one big festival going crowd. 
He is interested in moments that give a 
photograph something quirky. Are these 
kind of moments served up on a platter 
at Lowlands? Well, yeah, if you reckon a 
mohawk or a group of hoodies donning 
Ray-Ban Wayfarers is thrilling enough. 
Snoek doesn’t – that would be too easy. 
No, he prefers to observe people and 
wait for that moment that deserves a 
second glance. www.ottosnoek.com
All images © Otto SnoekPortfolio Otto Snoek
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GUP’s
Favourite 
Visitor 
Photo #3
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Portfolio, Q&A All images © Hendrik KerstensPortfolio Titia Hahne
Volbeat
Text: Jochem Rijlaarsdam
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he knew what she wanted to be when she was fifteen 
years old: a photographer. That she would mainly do 
so in the music scene unbeknown to her at the time. 
Titia Hahne often gets sent out on behalf of the Dutch 
music magazine OOR. Well, now for GUP and Lowlands 
too. At Lowlands she was in photo heaven: Artists and 
bands in abundance. She is up to the challenge and 
proves it here with her mighty black and white work from 
the most colourful festival in Holland. www.titiahahne.nl
Portfolio, Q&A All images © Hendrik Kerstens
Black Kids
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History, GUP Collectors TipText: Jochem Rijlaarsdam
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All images © Simone BärPortfolio Simone Bär
went looking for the 
faces of Lowlands. 
In the morning, 
when a serene 
peace still draped the festival terrain and 
in the afternoon when a bussling crowd 
sprawled across it. Simone Bär took festival-
goer’s portraits with her Hasselblad H2D 39. 
Isolated from the masses for one moment 
before they launch themselves back into the 
crowds. Lucid and formidable images, not 
unlike the Lowlanders themselves - ahem.
www.simonebar.nl
She
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When Boudewijn goes out and about with his camera, it’s a case of waiting to see 
where he ends up. Observe how each photo outdoes the last. Unexpected is a 
fitting description for Bollmann’s photos. He roamed and snooped around the entire 
festival from the campsite to Higher Ground, to catch meticulous – and often enough 
ludicrous – quirky festival scenes. For this is what Lowlands is...
Portfolio Boudewijn Bollmann
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Classic Sleeves
Maybe you – or your folks – have got one of these lying around in the 
attic: A record sleeve featuring a cover photo almost as famous as the 
artist or band itself. Check out these ten ‘classic’ album covers.
HERB ALPERT - WHIPPED CREAM & OTHER ... (1965) 
This album flew out of the stores selling six million 
copies in the USA alone. A three month pregnant Dolores 
Erickson donning a chiffon and a good layer of bubble 
foam adorns the cover. The artwork was so popular that 
Alpert would open the live version of the song with the 
words “Sorry, but we can’t play the cover.”
DEAD KENNEDYS - PLASTIC SURGERY ... (1982)
Quite intense this one. The English photographer Mike 
Wells did the artwork for the sleeve of the Californian 
Punk band’s ‘Plastic Surgery Disasters’.The photo of a 
starving child’s hand in that of a missionary’s – World 
Press Photo of the year in 1980 – was taken in Uganda.
THE BLACK CROWES - AMORICA (1994)
Inspite of not featuring one hit single this record went 
platinum in the USA after selling more than 500.000 
copies. But the sleeve cover was not an original – the 
image was taken from a 1975 Hustler cover. Shortly 
after the release the production of the sleeve was 
ceased by order of conservative powers.
MILES DAVIS - TUTU (1986)
Taken by the master, Irving Penn, this photograph is 
so good it’s enough to make you jealous. No frills, just 
a straight-up head shot. Art Director Eiko Ishioka was 
awarded with a Grammy for the album. Miles Davis 
made the album in tribute to the Arch Bishop Desmond 
Tutu from Capetown, South Africa.
NIRVANA - NEVERMIND (1991)
Kurt Cobain pledged to take the coverbaby, Spencer 
Elden, who was four months old at the time, out to 
dinner when he was old enough. Kurt’s suicide cast 
a shadow on that plan. Teenager Spencer recently 
revealed that he was unhappy with the iconic image: 
He feels like the biggest porn star in the world. 
Shouldn’t that be smallest?
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THE ROLLING STONES - STICKY FINGERS (1971)
Mick Jagger in oh-so-tight jeans, right? Wrong. The 
covermodel is one of Andy Warhol’s many assistants, 
the man who inspired the idea ‘This photograph may 
not be - etc.’. As it so happens the zip in the photo 
taken by Billy Name is real. In 2003 VH1 gave Sticky 
Fingers the title the “No.1 Greatest Album Cover” of 
all time.
TOM WAITS - RAIN DOGS (1985)
Rain Dogs are lost dogs, lost because the rain has 
washed away their scent – a metaphor for the drunks 
and vagabonds that feature in Tom Waits’ songs. If 
you thought Waits was on the cover, you’d be wrong. 
Swedish photographer Anders Petersen captured 
two regulars in Cafe Blehmitz, Hamburg, in the late 
sixties. The photo was first used as the cover for one of 
Petersen’s book.
U2 - THE JOSHUA TREE (1987)
The fifth album from – in light of the fact that twenty 
million copies of their greatest hits have been sold 
worldwide – one of the biggest bands on the planet. 
Teeming with hits and said to be one of the most 
famous album covers, ‘The Joshua Tree’ was shot by 
Anton Corbijn who had built up a good rapport with 
the Irish band at the time.
THE DOORS - MORRISON HOTEL (1979)
This cover was shot on 1246 South Hope Street in Los 
Angeles after Jim Morrison asked the owners very 
nicely if the band could pose in the window for a photo. 
Henry Diltz, the photographer on duty, is regarded as 
one of the first rock photographers of the sixties. He 
was the man at Woodstock, The Summer of ’69. Dilts 
has shot around 200 LP sleeves, this one serving as his 
landmark.
THE BEATLES - ABBEY ROAD (1969)
The most famous zebra crossing in the world. Seldom 
has a cover been so parodied, possibly only parelleled 
by the Chillis with the socks covering their Johnsons. 
Iain Macmillan was responsible for the shoot. He had a 
mere 10 minutes at 11.30 AM to get a picture that – as it 
later transpired – became the most iconic albumcover 
of all time. 
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All images © Audrey Corregan
W 
e gave Dennis a call somewhere back in June 
to ask if he wanted to come to Lowlands with 
us. He was up for it, but first he had to go on a road 
trip across the States. He reassured us he’d be back 
on time. We had a deal. Nevertheless on Wednesday 
the 13th of August he still wasn’t back and we couldn’t 
get hold of him... until Friday when around 3 a big old 
beard came a-wandering onto the Lowlands site. It 
was Dennis, fresh off the plane with an amazing case 
of jet lag. His symptoms were classic: He couldn’t 
sleep at night and wanted nothing more during the 
day. On Saturday he was so knackered that, when he 
set his Yashica camera down and plonked himself on 
the toilet, he forgot to pick it up again on his way out. 
The one who coined it got a load of cool pictures as 
well as a cool camera... the rest can be seen here. 
www.dennisduijnhouwer.com
Portfolio Dennis Duijnhouwer All images © Dennis Duijnhouwer
Sanne Sannes, Untitled 1965 Vintage Photographs
Tesselschadestraat 15 Amsterdam The Netherlands. www.hupgallery.com
Open: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 12.00 - 17.00 h. or by appointment