The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Netherlands
This page contains a list of the greatest Dutch Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 148 Photographers, 1 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 24th most number of Photographers behind Vietnam, and Mali.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dutch Photographers of all time. This list of famous Dutch Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Erwin Olaf (1959 - 2023)
With an HPI of 48.52, Erwin Olaf is the most famous Dutch Photographer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Erwin Olaf Springveld (2 July 1959 – 20 September 2023), professionally known as Erwin Olaf, was a Dutch photographer from Hilversum. Time magazine described his work as straddling "the worlds of commercial, art and fashion photography at once".
2. Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959)
With an HPI of 46.81, Rineke Dijkstra is the 2nd most famous Dutch Photographer. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Dutch photographers born between 1959 and 1959. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Dutch photographers include Rineke Dijkstra. The most famous deceased Dutch photographers include Erwin Olaf. As of April 2024, 1 new Dutch photographers have been added to Pantheon including Erwin Olaf.
