Jeroen Hofman is known for his distinctive views of landscapes and public spaces, photographed from elevated platforms. This shift in viewpoint changes the scale of the scene, revealing patterns, structures and relationships between people and their surroundings.
In his latest series, Remnants (2025-ongoing), Hofman photographs mountain landscapes that he has kept returning to since childhood. Taking time to absorb each scene, he observes how these places change over time and considers not only the traces people leave upon them, but also those the landscapes, in turn, leave in our minds and memories. From his characteristic elevated perspective, the mountains become quiet, almost abstract compositions in which human presence is subtle, yet never entirely absent.
Hofman studied photography at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. His breakthrough came with Playground (2011), followed by projects including Park (2018), which explores communal spaces and how people share them. His first major solo exhibition, Eiland, was presented at Fotomuseum Den Haag in 2022 and brought together photographs of all five Frisian Islands, focusing on their expansive landscapes shaped by tides and changing weather. In 2024, he presented work in Rescuers at Sea at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, focusing on the locations, fleet and surroundings of the country's rescue stations. In 2025, his series Zeeland was shown at the historic Oostkerk in Middelburg.
Hofman's work has been featured in group exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad, including HUMAN.KIND., a Prix Pictet exhibition in Geneva. His photographs are held in the collections of the Zuiderzeemuseum and Fotomuseum Den Haag. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also acquired his work for Dutch embassies.