WassinkLundgren
Thijs groot Wassink (born 1981) and Ruben Lundgren (born 1983) are two Dutch photographers who work together as WassinkLundgren. Their photography and film projects shift mundane, often unnoticeable, everyday occurrences into visually compelling and gently amusing observations of the world around us. Notable projects include Empty Bottles (2007), Tokyo Tokyo (2010) and This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land (2012). They also worked as editors and curators on The Chinese Photobook (2015). Thijs groot Wassink lives in London while Ruben Lundgren lives in Beijing. Career The duo met at the Utrecht School of the Arts from whose photography department they graduated in 2005. Their first collaborative publication Is Still Searching was given away, but not until the duo had torn out the pages that were no longer relevant to them at that moment. Their next publication Empty Bottles (2007) won the Prix du Livre for Best Contemporary Photobook at Rencontres d'Arles and is included in The Photobook: A History Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. From 2007 to 2008 Thijs groot Wassink studied Fine Arts (MA) at Central Saint Martins in London. Ruben Lundgren studied photographic design (MA) at the Central Academy of Fine Arts