TAMAR DEN BOK

Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker
b. 2003 in the Netherlands
UK / NL













01.Astronauts in Tin
Digital Photography
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2025
Format

Series
841 x 118 mm
Giclée print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta
Commissioned by
ArtEZ University of the Arts for the publication Strip
Astronauts in Tin is part of a photographic series exploring the world of cosplay and its surreal tension between fiction and reality regarding identity - revealing how characterism functions as both a form of escapism and a tool for self-expression. The project reflects on how identity is constructed and constrained within society, and how cosplay acts as a form of resistance against normative structures. By reclaiming space and bending the boundaries of so proclaimed adulthood, it exposes the line between reality and the surreal - showing that both are, ultimately, conceptual.

02.Boys

Digital Photography
London, The United Kingdom
2025 - Ungoing

Format

Series
Exhibition: Vauxhall - feb


Ongoing portrait series of young men across the UK. The body’s exhaustion is used as a method to establish honesty, as the body can no longer be controlled and responds naturally to its state of tiredness. Exhaustion removes the desire to pose, impress, or “be someone,” allowing the photographs to capture male intimacy and explore what it means to be masculine - or, more precisely, to be a boy.

03.Rio Jin

Documentary Film2023
Format

Digital Film8:53 min


Rio Jin, a young girl raised in poverty, navigates the challenges of assuming a maternal role. Against the backdrop of Christmas, the film explores the interplay between childlike innocence and the weight of responsibility, exploring the meaning of love.
04.Untitled

Digital Photography
Hilversum, Netherlands
2024 - Ungoing
Format

Series
262 x 310mm
Featured in “The Tower” - publication accompanying the exhibition at Four Corners Gallery, London

This project is follows my mother’s past as a former nun, tracing her life across Europe through her diaries. It’s a personal and political archaeology of womanhood, memory, and identity - engaging with my mothers hidden identity to understand my own.

05.Legs

Analog Photography
Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2024
Format

Standalone work422 x 603mm
Giclée print on Hahnemühle FineArt Matte

This photograph is part of Legs, a series made in Ukraine that reflects on the ethics of looking at war. In images of conflict, the body is often fragmented - turned into symbol, gesture, or wound. The series questions how images of conflict can aestheticize suffering and, in doing so, distance viewers from the human reality they depict.
06.Wiljo

Digital Photography
Soesterkwatier, Netherlands
2023
Format

Standalone work422 x 603 mm
Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Exhibited at Tankstation, The Netherlands

Wiljo is 60 years old, but due to her medication, she appears older. The work reflects on the process of aging, society’s valuation of vitality, and the isolation that often accompanies old age. Through this, aging is not portrayed merely as a personal experience but as a social condition.

07.Sans Papier

Analog Photography
Paris, France
2024 - Ungoing
Format

Series
A1 Poster production spreaded across Paris

Sans Papiers portrays the sellers of Eiffel Tower souvenirs in Paris, a contemporary form of neo-slavery within the neoliberal landscape.

The same object - the miniature Eiffel Tower - functions both as symbol of national pride and as a tool of exploitation. Tourism, as a global capitalist machinery, creates a surreal tableau where leisure, precarity, and inequality collide.
The anonymity of the project is not just a stylistic choice but an ethical one. It protects those portrayed while emphasising how systemic structures erase individuality.

Ultimately, Sans Papiers seeks to make visible what is intentionally obscured: the human cost of Paris’s postcard image.

The series has spread in a series of 150 posters around Paris in 2024.