Boys in Striped Suits/Broertjes in gestreepte pakjes
Coney Island, New York, 1989
Giclée print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper.
Size 30x30 cm without white border.
A unique, one-off print in size 50x50 cm of this photo is available at the auction evening in society de Kring, on November 28, 2024. More information on this page.
"This is one of my early images. I lived in New York for a year in 1989 and took a series of photos with the Hasselblad on Coney Island. You can see that Diane Arbus was one of my favorite photographers at that time. Although the photo is not perfect technically and compositionally, I still consider this one of my favorite photos. Taken in three takes - in those days you had to be frugal with film. Somehow this image was also bought by a few criminal lawyers - I don't know why."
Teun Voeten studied cultural anthropology and philosophy in Leiden. Since 1991 he has covered conflicts worldwide, such as ex-Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Liberia, DR Congo, North Korea and Syria for international magazines and publications. He wrote books about the underground homeless in New York (Tunnel people, 1996) and about the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone (How de body? Hoop en horror in Sierra Leone, 2000).
In 2008, he focused on drug violence in Mexico and made a photo book. Later, he wrote a PhD thesis that was published as Mexican Drug Violence. Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty (2020). Commissioned by the city of Antwerp, he investigated drug-related crime in connection with the Netherlands and wrote the much-discussed book DRUGS: Antwerp in the grip of the Dutch syndicates (2020). September 2022 saw the publication of Drug van de Duivel: de Wereldwijd komt van crystal meth, which will also be published in an English translation in the US in early 2025. Voeten has been awarded several times for his photography in the Zilveren Camera. This September, the revised version of his photo book entitled Drug War Mexico / Narco Violencia was published. He is currently investigating the fentanyl crisis on the American West Coast, from Vancouver to Tijuana, entirely without subsidies.
Teun Voeten
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