Projects:

Precious Animals

New Neighbours

A touch of Divinity

Handicapped people in Holland

Family aid in the Netherlands

Book "Building solar suburbs"

Semana Santa in Sevilla
Precious Animals is the eighth in a series of photo commissions organized by the Rijksmuseum jointly with NRC Handelsblad under the title Document Nederland.

Precious Animals is about the complex relationship people have with animals: animals as efficiently produced consumer products for people, animals as objects for medical research to benefit humans, and animals as objects of human love and affection.
In his photos Jan van IJken examines the value attached to animals in the Netherlands. He makes no judgment, but encourages us to reflect about our own values and our occasional double standards.
DUTCH RADIO:
KUNSTSTOF 15/11/05:
1 hour interview

VROEGE VOGELS 25/12/05
2 hour special Dierbaar


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