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2022 17:19:05 +0000 romke hoogwaerts - multimedia producer, etc. https://romkehoogwaerts.com/linktree Romke Hoogwaerts 🌼 linktree 08/10/26 🌼 brooklyn *&nbsp;homepage * ︎ active projects ︎ Hekmor Media&nbsp;︎ (live video production)- producer/tech director - 🌹️&nbsp;NYC-DSA 🌹️ (democratic socialism) - comms/video - ︎ Central Park Sculptures ︎ (live documentary project)- producer/writer/host - ︎ previously Vreugdevuur Scheveningen (photobook,2018 &amp; film, 2020) The Reservoir (photography webzine, 2016-2020)︎ Mossless ︎ (independent publishing, 2009-2016) ︎ Instagram 🌞️ YouTube 🤖️ Twitch 👽️TikTok 😬️ Twitter 💀️ ︎ email me Romke Hoogwaerts 🌼 linktree 06/14/26 🌼 brooklyn https://romkehoogwaerts.com/politics Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:44:49 +0000 romke hoogwaerts - multimedia producer, etc. https://romkehoogwaerts.com/politics Political Media Projects (various) &nbsp; A selection of vertical videos from the last year or so of campaign ad strategy, production and editing. All of these campaigns went on to win their races. email me https://romkehoogwaerts.com/centralparksculptures Thu, 08 Dec 2022 21:35:52 +0000 romke hoogwaerts - multimedia producer, etc. https://romkehoogwaerts.com/centralparksculptures central park sculptures &nbsp; a documentary and photobook about every sculpture in central park live on twitch, edited for youtube, instagram &amp;&nbsp;tiktok 🏡 my homepage&nbsp;🔥 https://romkehoogwaerts.com/about Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:50:16 +0000 romke hoogwaerts - multimedia producer, etc. https://romkehoogwaerts.com/about Romke Hoogwaerts produces livestreams, documentary films and photobooks. Currently working primarily as a video tech director for corporate clients, cultural icons and community organizations. He previously worked as filmmaker and photographer, ran indie publishing titles on photograhy and worked as a photo editor for mainstream news outlets. He was raised by Dutch parents in South East Asia and graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Visual &amp; Critical Studies in 2013. Press romke@hekmor.comBrooklyn, New York646.302.3470 https://romkehoogwaerts.com/vs-top Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:13:04 +0000 romke hoogwaerts - multimedia producer, etc. https://romkehoogwaerts.com/vs-top Vreugdevuur Scheveningena documentary photobook and film by Romke Hoogwaerts︎︎︎ https://romkehoogwaerts.com/archive Fri, 20 Jul 2018 22:40:35 +0000 romke hoogwaerts - multimedia producer, etc. https://romkehoogwaerts.com/archive The largest bonfire in the world may not be well known but it has a storied history. <img width="1000" height="506" width_o="1000" height_o="506" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36f41ebc0571cee228c12bbd24f23cf4e622c31de7dbcf4441d660b115a3595f/Kl.-B-3625.jpg" data-mid="20784463" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36f41ebc0571cee228c12bbd24f23cf4e622c31de7dbcf4441d660b115a3595f/Kl.-B-3625.jpg" />Holland’s Prince William of Orange, also known as William the Silent, was the first head of state to be assassinated by a gun in 1584. His murder left Holland in political quandry as the heir to power, William’s brother, was held hostage in Spain. Queen Elizabeth sent her beloved Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, to rule over Holland as a temporary govenor-general. When he arrived in Scheveningen in 15, he was met with an extraordinary display of fireworks as depicted in this etching from 1586. <img width="4233" height="2975" width_o="4233" height_o="2975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cce38661900eedbcff1ba733045407862ae6247c25d76c8aa81709ceae6ff9c/HGA001045853-BW.jpg" data-mid="20785091" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cce38661900eedbcff1ba733045407862ae6247c25d76c8aa81709ceae6ff9c/HGA001045853-BW.jpg" /> A Vreugdevuur for the 40th jubilee of Queen Wilhelmina on Scheveningen’s beach, August 26th, 1938. (Gompers, collection Haags Gemeentearchief) <img width="3767" height="2987" width_o="3767" height_o="2987" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cddcf9c3202f409dec8d66ebda3bb61ce8164a95ad9d204eefb6366589f9822/HGA001054626-b.jpg" data-mid="20785238" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cddcf9c3202f409dec8d66ebda3bb61ce8164a95ad9d204eefb6366589f9822/HGA001054626-b.jpg" />A family and their friends celebrate New Year’s with a stolen police Jeep on Jan Steenstraat, January 1, 1968. According to local accounts, the crowd drove the new Jeep into a bonfire, where it was found by police in the morning. (G.J. ter Brugge, collection Haags Gemeentearchief) During World War II, Den Haag (The Hague) was under Nazi occupation. Both of my grandfathers, teenagers at the time, were threatened conscription by Nazi forces and only one them escaped it. When the wars ended, Den Haag’s working class youth turned the city into a combat zone for one week every year. Kids conscripted discarded Christmas trees into New Years Eve bonfires. They developed crews, fought each other and the police, all in the pursuit of protecting and expanding their stash of trees and many other kinds of flammable materials. Neighborhoods like Schilderswijk and Scheveningen became infamous because of it. Over time, the violence evolved into an organized bonfire rivalry between two coastal neighborhoods, Duindorp and Scheveningen. That’s where one of my grandfathers lived. <img width="1130" height="777" width_o="1130" height_o="777" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27b970db79b8853046d6a3e7d2b503934b47373ca6322d67b838b1249becb63a/Screen-Shot-2018-07-21-at-11.46.10-PM.png" data-mid="21122685" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27b970db79b8853046d6a3e7d2b503934b47373ca6322d67b838b1249becb63a/Screen-Shot-2018-07-21-at-11.46.10-PM.png" /> <img width="1336" height="914" width_o="1336" height_o="914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40d13791255b3f01a6e5987e00468c6d67c04071f78308e997dc1312e945c63c/Screen-Shot-2018-07-21-at-11.46.20-PM.png" data-mid="21122704" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40d13791255b3f01a6e5987e00468c6d67c04071f78308e997dc1312e945c63c/Screen-Shot-2018-07-21-at-11.46.20-PM.png" /> Illegal bonfire stashes being removed by police (left). Burned out cars on New Year’s Day (right, both Jos van Leeuwen). https://romkehoogwaerts.com/construction Fri, 20 Jul 2018 23:00:24 +0000 romke hoogwaerts - multimedia producer, etc. https://romkehoogwaerts.com/construction The bonfire rivalry on the beaches of Duindorp and Scheveningen started in 1990 and is separated by a harbor. Over time, wooden pallets became a favored material, a convenient medium for the working class communities that were behind the two apartment-sized bonfire towers. It wasn’t long before they became the largest in the world by volume. I spent a few years documenting its community in Scheveningen before it was banned in 2019. <img width="5002" height="4002" width_o="5002" height_o="4002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/472446bcb82c8e05fcd85e94e75945ce14d489374f79cfb76bd6979c8ba4a4a9/VFI17002.jpg" data-mid="251367594" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/472446bcb82c8e05fcd85e94e75945ce14d489374f79cfb76bd6979c8ba4a4a9/VFI17002.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="800" width_o="1000" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45c360b0ce24ed8dcc22bc49239687178879a7deb858f132b4dee91e2ae8561d/VFI17003.jpg" data-mid="20823330" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45c360b0ce24ed8dcc22bc49239687178879a7deb858f132b4dee91e2ae8561d/VFI17003.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="800" width_o="1000" height_o="800" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91d60ba8e50af01a1178f733b80b7c9ee39c0f17f51def7e1d6188c19f99a1bb/Vreugdevuur-F17.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="800" width_o="1000" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0eddeeb0a333ff0f76dffe78bd1d2207c37bb8fafb1490a2cd2123b2bc00c5ae/VFI17099.jpg" data-mid="22645361" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0eddeeb0a333ff0f76dffe78bd1d2207c37bb8fafb1490a2cd2123b2bc00c5ae/VFI17099.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="800" width_o="1000" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ec8bf1051c9568c4cad8ffa92d57af816d140f3144c041cff68080f566f8dc2/VFI18076.jpg" data-mid="22645357" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ec8bf1051c9568c4cad8ffa92d57af816d140f3144c041cff68080f566f8dc2/VFI18076.jpg" /> https://romkehoogwaerts.com/char Sat, 21 Jul 2018 21:58:42 +0000 romke hoogwaerts - multimedia producer, etc. https://romkehoogwaerts.com/char