Haarlem bij Nacht

With the cross-over project ‘Haarlem by Night’, Joshua Baumgarten and Marike Koe captured the corona period in words and images. By creating a time frame through which we come to see Haarlem in a new light. The project is given shape as a book, a website and as an exhibition.

Marike Koe

Marike photographs people and places. Her pictures are made out of her intuition, without the use of a flashlight or a tripod. Marike has a style that registers her environment in a documentary fashion. For the ‘Haarlem by Night’ project, she walked through Haarlems neighborhoods at night, creating images that captured the light and darkness, both literally and figuratively.

Joshua Baumgarten

Joshua is the Haarlem Underground Godfather. For twenty years already, he organizes alternative music events, poetry nights and festivals. He is also the frontman of the Irrational Library band, in which his social-political spoken word has a leading role. For ‘Haarlem by Night’ he motivated himself to write daily. In search of stillness, routine and meaning, he wrote short and longer poems, columns that reflected his moods and impressions of this time.