Anoek Steketee - State Of Being - Documenting Statelessness

The Rijksmuseum has organized the exhibition 'Document Nederland' annually since 1975. A Dutch photographer is asked to focus on a current social topic. In 2017 Anoek Steketee was commissioned to portray the theme 'stateless'. Steketee went looking for stateless people in the Netherlands: people without nationalities, without passports, who legally do not exist but live in the Netherlands nevertheless. To create this book, Steketee portrayed people that were de facto or recognized as stateless, as well as scenes, places, and documents. She worked together with journalists Eefje Blankevoort and Arnold van Bruggen and designers Kummer&Herrman. This photo document includes interviews and texts and presents a probing portrait of life in limbo.