In 1921, Frank Scholten (1881-1942) travelled to the then British Mandate Territory of Palestine. Here he took more than 20,000 photographs. On Thursday 10 October, Prof Dr Karène Sanchez-Summerer will give a lecture (in English) on this extraordinary writer, adventurer and photographer.
In some ways Frank Scholten resembles Jacob Israël de Haan, the journalist who travelled to Palestine two years earlier and is now the focus of the exhibition ‘A Dutch Lawrence of Arabia?’. Several photographs by Frank Scholten are shown in this exhibition. They illustrate what De Haan describes in his ‘feuilletons’ (newspaper columns).
After Scholten returned to Europe, he wrote a book about his stay in the Middle East and illustrated the book with his own photographs. His huge collection consisting of about 14,000 negatives, 10,000 photo negatives and 67 photo albums were never published or exhibited during his lifetime. After his death in 1942, the collection was housed at the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). Prof Dr Karène Sanchez-Summerer is involved in the ‘Mapping the Mandate’ project. Much of the collection has now been digitised. As professor of Middle East Studies, Sanchez is involved in the exhibition ‘A Dutch Lawrence of Arabia?’ in Synagoge Groningen.
Presentation ‘The multiple lives of Jacob Israël de Haan’
Following this lecture, the latest book on Jacob Israël de Haan will be presented. In this new publication, the makers of the exhibition in Synagoge Groningen interpret the last five years of the Dutch journalist's life, who was murdered in Jerusalem in 1924.
Lecture | ‘Palestine Illustrated. The photo-legacy of Frank Scholten.'
lecture by Prof Karène Sanchez-Summerer
Thursday 10 October - 20.00 (Synagogue opens at 19.30)
Synagoge Groningen, Folkingestraat 60
Free admission | make a reservation via reserveren@synagogegroningen.nl 'Lecture10-10'.
