2015
Move to Portugal. Creation of a new vegetable garden en planting fruit trees. Start of new photographic journeys into Portuguese landscapes and interiors.
2014
Donation of two large series of exhibition prints, 'Les Pyramides du Nord' and 'Voyage Botanique', to the Musée Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, France, and to the Musée des Arts Contemporaines in Hornu, Belgium
2010
Start of the 'Luminous Garden' project, which shows aspects of the usually invisible electromagnetical fields that surround and penetrate plants in relation to a known physical reality
2008
One-month journey on foot along the Western European prehistoric star route from Strasbourg to Troyes (France)
2004 – 2007
‘Metamorphosis’, a series of colour photographs taken in the inner spaces of the world of plants
2002 – 2004
Photographic journeys in the Western Desert
of Egypt, resulting in a series of work entitled ‘Desert and Skies’
1999
‘Foto Kees Schererprijs’ for
‘Voyage Botanique’, selected as
the ‘Best Dutch Photography Book
published in the years 1997 and 1998’
1998
Honorouble mention for ‘Voyage
Botanique’ in the ‘VI Prize of
Photographic Book and Catalogue’
Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona, Spain
1998
‘Voyage Botanique’ selected as
one of the ‘Best designed books of The
Netherlands in 1997’
1997
Publication of monograph ‘Voyage
Botanique’, self-edited
1992 – 1994
Black and white photography in collections of
dried plants in Botanical Institutes,
entitled ‘Voyage Botanique’
1992
Honorouble mention for ‘Les Pyramides
du Nord’ in the ‘III Prize of
Photographic Book and Catalogue’,
Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona, Spain
1992
Publication of monograph ‘Les Pyramides
du Nord’, self-edited
1991
Publication of monograph ‘Paul den
Hollander, een keuze uit zijn
foto’s’
1989 – 1991
Black and white photography of artificial
landscapes in industrial areas
1989
Black and white photography in forests
1988 – 1990
Black and white photography in interiors of
industrial buildings in the mining areas of
Belgium and the Northwest of France, entitled
‘Les Pyramides du Nord’
1987 – 1988
Several projects in towns in the Netherlands
1984 – 1985
Colour photography in Museums of Natural
History
1982 – 1984
Black and white photography in gardens,
glasshouses and zoological gardens
1982
Publication of monograph ‘Moments in
Time’
1981
Grand Prix de la Recherche Photographique,
Royan, France for the series ‘Moments
in Time’
1981
Second price Triennale de Fribourg,
Switzerland for the series ‘Moments in
Time’
1977 – 1980
Work on the photographic series
‘Moments in Time’ in black and
white
1975 – 1976
Travels in the Middle and Far East - without
camera
1973 – 1975
Ecological farming
1973
‘Price of the City of Breda’
1968 – 1973
Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Breda
1950
Born in Breda, the Netherlands
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