Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare capturing the lasting impact of

capturing the lasting impact of childhood on adult identity

using handmade sets

dramaturgy

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for their support

Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare capturing the lasting impact ofPaul Kooikers encyclopaedia of life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichs more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective