Robin Butter

Robin Butter is a documentary photographer who works/lives in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Exploring the realm of cultural phenomena, in surroundings that seem stranger than fiction.
Her expertise lies in portraiture and social documentary. She sees her work beautiful as ugly, funny and serious.

Working together with groups as well as with individuals she takes on subjects about identity and people’s unique ways of self-expression. Using photography to escape her own mundane and predesigned life.
She reflects on the behaviour of Western society in general as well as her own behaviour, frequently asking herself; what does this say about our society now?
Her practice involves extensive research and working on long-term projects, spending most of her time in the realm of cultural phenomena.
Robin is attracted to the strange, exceptional, to the hidden and unfamiliar in people and places, which seem undetectable, forgotten, neglected or out of reach.

Received her BA of design in photography at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2014. She self-published her first photobook ‘It takes my mind off things’ by the end of 2015.
Robin enjoys her works as a freelance photographer for several clients and long term personal proje...

Received her BA of design in photography at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague the Netherlands in 2014.
She self-published her first photobook ‘It takes my mind off things’ by the end of 2015.
Robin enjoys her works as a freelance photographer for several clients and long term personal projects.

2018 Cosmos Arles Books
The Family of No Man
Arles, France
portraits of power boost

2018 Fotobook Festival Kassel
-SYB- Sybren Kuiper
Kassel, Germany
it takes my mind off things

2018 Hoogtij #52 Sue_das lab
Different ways of portraiture
The Hague, the Netherlands
portraits of power boost

2018 Rotterdam Photo
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
after all i still want a fox

2017 Foto Festival Schiedam
My name in 100 colophons
Schiedam, the Netherlands
it takes my mind off things

2017 Foto Festival Naarden
de Gele Loods
Naarden, the Netherlands
it takes my mind off things

2017 Hoogtij #48 Sue_das lab
Group chat
The Hague, the Netherlands
ocean hope

2016 LhGWR
My name in 100 colophons
The Hague, the Netherlands
it takes my mind off things

2016 Paris Photo
Main sector H2 / Dirk K Boeken
Paris, France
it takes my mind off things

2016 Beijing Fotobook Festival
Editions Bessard
Beijing, China
it takes my mind off things

2016 Concrete Store AMS
duo exhibition Gilleam Trapenberg
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
it takes my mind off things

2015 Juraplatz Photo Exhibition
Life Framer
Bienne, Switzerland
it takes my mind off things

2015 Tink Tank Gallery
Life Framer
Los Angeles, C...