Early on in his photography career, Dutch artist Erwin Olaf photographed male models wearing ladies’ hats. In one of these black-and-white images, Hennie (1985), a nude male model leans into Olaf’s ...

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --Erwin Olaf – Freedom is the first museum retrospective since the artists' unexpected passing two years ago. The exhibition pays tribute to Olaf as a versatile ...

The Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, who has died aged 64 following a lung transplant, straddled the world of art, advertising and fashion photography with a sumptuous cinematic and painterly aesthetic.

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is currently hosting “Freedom,” the largest-ever retrospective of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (1959-2023). Spanning four decades, the exhibition reveals an artist ...

For the past three decades, Amsterdam-based Dutch artist Erwin Olaf has been taking us to the heart of his dream world through photographs and films that reveal the vulnerability of humanity through a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Erwin Olaf, an acclaimed Dutch photographer whose work documented topics ranging from gay nightlife ...

Tributes have been pouring in for internationally acclaimed Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf whose death at 64 was announced on Wednesday. Olaf, who suffered from a hereditary form of emphysema, had ...

Over the last 10 years, Dutch artist Erwin Olaf has produced a series of stylized images that read like the stage directions for a Samuel Beckett play. A veteran of editorial and commercial work for ...

Erwin Olaf’s photos have the gloss of fashion shots and a haunting undercurrent that makes you long for more context. As he turns 60, three museums will present his work. By Nina Siegal “Chessmen XXIV ...

Born in 1959 in Hilversum in the Netherlands, Erwin Olaf studied journalism in Utrecht. News writing wasn’t the right fit, so he was delighted when an insightful teacher proposed photography and put a ...