Greater Amsterdam

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2020 | A survey of the metropolitean area of Amsterdam. 

Travels in a wounded landscape

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2017 | After Baldus is a collaboration project with Cary Markerink and Alison Nordstrom inspired by an 1855 album by E.Baldus. 

Biography of a landscape in transition

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2015 | Werklust shows how an open landscape is faring in the shadow of an ever-growing airport. Werklust is the sequel to Bouwlust (1996). 

Markering Ontbreekt

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2013 | Sound Horn is the comparison with Rochester, NY in the USA [see Sound Horn 1]. Metropolitan Twente has a glorious industrious past but is still struggling with the consequences of the disappearance of the textile and manufacturing industry.

Decisive Interventions

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2018 | Celebrated urban development expert Ton Schaap and ten colleagues analyze vital parts of cities. From Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo to the Victoria Embankment in London.

Border area in transformation

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2018 | The Hedwigepolder and the polders near the port of Antwerp will change unrecognizable. What does that landscape look like before the intervations?

A spatial perspective

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2018 | The book by urban planner Frits Palmboom contains 23 images of the varied coastal landscape of the IJsselmeer.

Landscape & Cultural History

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2018 | The province of Noord-Holland has developed an online tool to inform its citizens about the cultural-historical and landscape qualities of the North Holland landscape.

On the eve of new spatial developments 

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2015 | In the nineties of the last century, two government policy papers with blueprints for the Netherlands in 2015 became law. Ruimte is a journey along a number of completed projects which were announced in these documents.

Infrastructure and landscape

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2015 | Twenty photographs om the relation between infrastructure and environment in Noord-Holland.

Landscape and renewable energy

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2014 | An expedition to observe the first visible signs in the Dutch landscape of the energy transition.

Identity, heritage and cultural dynamics

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2014 | For the institute for scientific research NWO, journalist and sociologist Warna Oosterbaan made a report and analysis on research into Dutch identity. In about twenty photos I explain the relationship between investigations and expressions of identity as they are visible in our environment.

Atlas of New Towns

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2012 | Atlas nieuwe steden  is about the the new towns, that the Dutch government built near existing cities. How did that work out?

House in France

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2010 | Why do so many Dutch people buy a house on the French countryside? A search for the answer together with Sake Elzinga and Tracy Metz.

Production landscapes

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2009 | Almost half of the labor force in the Netherlands work in a business area. The other half does not come there that often. What do these places look like? 

Cultural landscapes

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2009 | For Architerctuur Lokaal 

I photographed twenty cultural landscapes in the Netherlands.

Dutch interiors II

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2008-2010 | As a follow-up to the series of interiors made for the Achterpagina from 1994, I made a new series together with Arjen Ribbens with houses of designers, harbor barons, art collecting dentists and other countrymen.

Waterfront

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2008 | In FORUM, urban planner Ton Schaap describes the design history of part of the formal eastern port area of Amsterdam. Theo Baart photographed regularly in that area between 1983 and 2008.

A city recreates itself

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2007 | Just before the financial crises of autumn 2007, this book was published about the city of Enschede, where new plans were made for the revitalization of this worn-out industrial city.

The Frisian landscape

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2005 |Achterland-Voorland  is about the the temptation of rurality. It depicts the difference with the crowded Randstad and the attractionof the 'empty countryside'. 

Living and working in historic farms

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2003 | Commissioned by the then Rijksdienst Monumentenzorg (now RCE), Theo Baart photographed at twenty historic farms that were still in operation at that time. 

Hiroshima and Bruges

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2002 | Bruges was the European Capital of Culture in 2002. The photos made for European Eyes On Japan were combined with work made in Bruges.

Hiroshima

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2001 | Every year, the EU - Japan Fest invites one or two photographers to shoot in a Japanese province. In 2000 Theo Baart photographed in the Hiroshima prefecture.

Rijksmuseum commission

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1985 | Every year since 1975, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has commissioned one or two photographers to portray a theme that is expected to be interesting for future generations: contemporary visual historiography. 

A place of reflection

1984 | Commissioned by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts Theo Baart photographed at burial places in the city. 

Landscapes and writers

1984-1989 |Between 1984 and 1989, together with poet and writer Willem van Toorn, I made four reports for writers and their landscapes for AVENUE magazine.