Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention bundle Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en het

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

a young contestant she met during the Miss Italia selections

producing a mass of exploratory material that often runs to hundreds of images

cultural identity

Jan Philipzen / Ravedeath Convention bundle Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en hetStarted as a visual diary, Ravedeath Convention soon grew into a hybrid of autobiography and fiction. While love, joy and friendship are explored, violence and excess come about too, often captured only as traces and symptoms. A collision of different, occasionally mismatched, cultural symbols stresses the all embracing blend of subcultres as a fundamental feature of our times. The first pictures taken at age thirteen, this series of black and white