TWO SEASIDE FAMILY ALBUMS

THE NETHERLANDS EA/NL/0089

Water and the Dutch are irrevocably linked. These photo albums framing several summers spent at the seaside of a Dutch family, are exemplary of this bond. Visiting Wijk aan Zee, Driehuizen and IJmuiden, we see how the family changes along with the surrounding scenery. Children grow more numerous and, of course, taller. The Noordersluis, the lock under construction captured by our photographer, was the largest lock in the world at the time, inaugurated two years later by queen Wilhelmina. Her grandson, king Willem-Alexander, inaugurated the new lock next to it just last year. Both titles – that of monarch and of world’s biggest lock – passed on to a new generation.

TWO SEASIDE FAMILY ALBUMS

THE NETHERLANDS EA/NL/0089

Water and the Dutch are irrevocably linked. These photo albums framing several summers spent at the seaside of a Dutch family, are exemplary of this bond. Visiting Wijk aan Zee, Driehuizen and IJmuiden, we see how the family changes along with the surrounding scenery. Children grow more numerous and, of course, taller. The Noordersluis, the lock under construction captured by our photographer, was the largest lock in the world at the time, inaugurated two years later by queen Wilhelmina. Her grandson, king Willem-Alexander, inaugurated the new lock next to it just last year. Both titles – that of monarch and of world’s biggest lock – passed on to a new generation.