Beeldjagers (Image hunters)
'Beeldjagers' is an online museum where everyone could upload their personal photo/video collection. Accidental self-portraits of people selling their mirrors online, a secret archive of the National Aviation Service, recognising Mickey Mouse in everyday objects, cookies served with coffee to a home care worker... Image hunters are people with a special eye, according to the many collections on the online platform ‘Beeldjagers’. Countless people share their image collections on Facebook, Pinterest, or Tumblr. These are often selections of just beautiful or funny images, but sometimes very remarkable and obsessive collections around one specific theme. And curators at Beeldjagers looked for the latter. Breda's Museum and MOTI are jointly presenting ‘Beeldjagers’ concept, with a call from BredaPhoto for the Beeldjagers-contest. Both professionals and enthusiasts image Hunters were encouraged to upload their image collections to the online platform. MOTI and Breda's Museum showed the most beautiful and remarkable collections from this call at ART BREDA. The extraordinary collections of images, their collectors and the story behind them. The online museum derived from the event ‘Beeldjagers’: Image Collector's Day that the initiators very successfully organised in 2014 at the Chassé Theater in Breda. During the event, around twenty enthusiastic collectors talked about their personal and mostly hidden image collection. A professional jury selected these image hunters from more than 300 contributors. The website is an initiative by MOTI (Museum of the Image) in collaboration with De Volkskrant, based on a concept by internet curator and media entrepreneur Dagan Cohen.
MOTI, Museum of the Image (now Stedelijk Museum Breda) is located in the Old Men's House, which served as a care home for a long time. MOTI was a visual culture museum. The varied collection includes film, photography, design, fashion, visual arts, gaming, science and architecture. Using this collection, the story of visual culture is told and the museum shows the dynamic world of images. As of January 1st 2017, MOTI merged with Breda's Museum into Stedelijk Museum Breda.
Van den Bout worked full-time at MOTI (now Stedelijke Museum Breda). Her work covered three days a week on the exhibition department and two days a week on the education department. This created a lively work environment varying from exhibition programming to running events and from creating an audio guide to facilitating guided tours.
