Frits Gierstberg

Frits Gierstberg (b. 1959) is art historian and critic. He works as Head of exhibitions at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. He has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary photography, including 'Wasteland: Landscape from now on' (1992), Human Conditions. Intimate Portraits (Montreal, 1999), Still/moving, Contemporay photography, film and video from the Netherlands' (Kyoto, 2000), 'Surface: Contemporary photography, video and painting from Japan' (2001) and Experience, the media rat race, Foto Biennale Rotterdam V (2003). He publishes regularly on international photography in the Netherlands and abroad and is also (co-) editor of a number of books about photography and visual culture, among which 'The Image Society. Essays on Visual Culture' (2002) and ‘Documentary now! Contemporary strategies in photography, film and visual arts' (2005). Since January 1st, 2006, he is Professor of Photography at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2006 he was appointed by the Mondriaan Foundation as photography curator for the ‘Dutch Dare!' cultural programme celebrating 400 years of relationships between the Netherlands and Australia.