Individualized as each of us may be, don’t we sometimes crave to be part of a larger whole? A collective that shares common characteristics, attitudes, and interests as those of our own? In this (post-)covid limbo, we felt the need to reflect on this idea of an imagined community across continents, woven together through empathy.
The Dutch National Portrait Gallery and Rabobank collaborate to award the broad tradition of Dutch portraiture in photography. For the twelfth edition of the Rabo Photographic Portrait Prize, the jury came to evaluate a total of nearly 900 entries, resulting in a shortlist having five photographers selected for the main prize and three emerging artists nominated for the Talent Prize.