Whatever the Weather - about Bruno van den Elshout

My name is Bruno van den Elshout. I am a father of three, I was born in The Hague in 1979, and except for 3 years, have lived here all my life.

Although I originally studied International Business, I spent the last 10 years working independently. As a photographer first, then as an arts. Prior to Whatever the Weather, I worked on numerous small and two large projects. Us Europeans was the first one, in 2007. It took me on a journey through all 27 member states of the European Union, interviewing 2700 young Europeans about their daily lives. In 2012, I spent one year photographing the North Sea horizon at every your of the year. The project was called NEW HORIZONS, and led to the publication of a monumental book in 2014. Whatever the Weather was my last large project, and the only one since NEW HORIZONS.

My work is inspired by the wish to inspire meetings between people, ideas and worlds. I do this with the intention to elaborate new and constructive ways of living and working together, and bringing them into practice at the same time.

Telling more

Welcome obviously if you wat to read more about other projects I have worked on. Please visit my website www.photologix.nl. You can also find and follow me on LinkedIn en Facebook.

If you would like to hear me tell about my work, you may enjoy this video:

Still from recording by Daan van Bergen, Stand up Stories #1, November 2019

Since Whatever the Weather...(update: April 2026)

Under the title of Een Blokje Rond (lit. around the block), I am celebrating genuine encounter as a beautiful gift you can give somebody else... and yourself. For this Blokje Rond, I will spend the coming 10 years interviewing 3 people a week, generating a total of 1.440 interviews. The first one is due on Wed 27 May 2026 and it will be broadcast as a radioshow. Its budget stems from a crowdfund campaign at Voordekunst which runs from Easter to Pentecoast of this year.


Een Blokje Rond op Voordekunst