Noorderlicht
platform for photography
and lens-based media
Visiting location: Niemeyerfabriek
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Education What Have We Done?
Inspire creativity and critical thinking by exploring lens-based media. Through integrated workshops in school programs, students engage hands-on with photography in our gallery and classroom. Stories from inspiring artists enrich these programs, offering students valuable insights and motivation.
In What Have We Done?, pupils explore seven decades of press photography—from iconic images to unknown perspectives—and learn to look more consciously, ask questions and visualise themselves. What do you actually see when you look at news images? Who chooses those photos, which stories remain out of the picture and how does the meaning of an image change through framing, captioning or editing?
