Artist statement

Henri Blommers is a visual artist who combines analog techniques for projects on topics such as biodiversity loss, sea level rise, and the impact of plastic on nature. He mimics these processes by boiling, scratching, spraying, and cutting his materials. With visual poetry, he entices the viewer to reflect on his themes.

He works sustainably with plants from his garden and shares his knowledge at festivals through lectures and workshops. His recent project on salinization was on display at Bucharest Fotofest, where he also spoke about ecology and gave a workshop on cyanotypes and lumen prints combined with chemigrams. At the Experimental Fotofestival in Barcelona, he and two other pioneers in this field explored sustainability in photography and what photographers need.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2023, he was a finalist at the Lensculture Art Awards, and in 2022, he won the Denis Roussel Award. His project ‘Salting the Earth’ was a finalist at Critical Mass in 2024.

• Analog (Amsterdam 2025 NL)

• Hooglandkamer (Leiden 2025 NL)

• Bucharest Fotofest (2024 Ro)

• AIR exhibition Experimental Photo Festival (2024 E)

• Fotofestival Lenzburg (2024 CH)

• The future is now (2024 NL)

• Arterritoires (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 F)

• Galerie Noord (Groningen January 2024 NL)

• Makersmomenten (Kunstgarage Franx December 2023 + 2024 NL)

• Culturele Hoofdstraat (Beetsterzwaag July & September 2023 NL)

• Fotofestival Eindhoven (May 2023)

• Activism in Photography (September 2022 NL)

• House of Hiv (August 2022 NL)

• Fotofestival Lenzburg (August 2022 CH)

• Photo-Canopy (April 2022 UK)

• New Forest Museum: Workshowgrow Residency (March 2022 UK)

• Arterritoires: Buhy, Cherence Maudètour-en-Vexin and Haut-Isle (2021 FR)

• Rietveldpaviljoen Amersfoort: garden of henri (2021 NL)

• La Chambre 10 Ans (2021 FR)

• International foto festival Belo Horizonte (2021 BR)

• Terra Art Zoetermeer: Plastic Utopia together with BISH-colleague Bert Feddema (2020 NL)

• Galerie Wind Rotterdam: groups exhibition No Waste (2020 NL)

• Out of the Mist Brisbane September (2019 AUS)

• Helsinki Photo Festival (2019 F)

• La Chambre Strasbourg solo (2019 FR)

• Galerie de Meerse with BISH-collective (2019 NL)

• WTC Artgallery Rotterdam An Unexpected View (2019 NL)

• Kurhaus Scheveningen Plastic Soup (2018 NL)

• De Gang Haarlem solo Plastic Utopia (2018 NL)

• Cloud gallery Alleen Amsterdam (2018 NL)

• Outdoor exhibition Leiden Plastic Soupe (2017 NL)

• ACF Eeuwigheid Amsterdam (2015 NL)

• Oosterkerk Made In… BISH art collective (2014 NL)

• SBK exhibition Amsterdam (2014 NL)

• Vondelpark Indoor and Outdoor exhibition (2014 NL)

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Exhibitions