Foto’s

Rob Rombout photographing a Barbary macaque sitting on a railing above the bay of Gibraltar — 2024, Gibraltar, Rob Rombout

“Al meer dan dertig jaar trekt de Nederlandse filmmaker over de wegen van de wereld om via zijn vele ontmoetingen fragmenten van de werkelijkheid vast te leggen. […] Rob Rombout is een van die filmmakers en fotografen met een onverzadigbare nieuwsgierigheid die steeds weer op zoek gaan naar de Ander. Zijn films zijn hedendaagse portretten die, van ontmoeting tot ontmoeting, de fragmentarische beelden samenvoegen waaruit een land bestaat. […] Zo vormen deze tochten zijn cultuur van de weg, op de grens tussen het stilstaande en het bewegende beeld.”

Nathalie Dassa, “Rob Rombout, documenteur du monde”, Les Plats Pays, 20 januari 2025. Vertaald uit het Frans.

2020, Armação de Pêra, Portugal

A young woman with a fringe looking into the lens — 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam, Minh Minh Vu Hong

A Barbary macaque sitting against a pale sky — 2024, Gibraltar

A breaking wave off Pico — 2020, Pico, Portugal

A ridge of folded red rock under a pale sky — 2018, Little Karoo, South Africa

A tangle of bare, lichen-covered branches against a pale sky — 2026, Caldas de Monchique, Portugal

A covered market, the roof casting long stripes of shadow on the ground — 2017, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

A painted corner building on a street with snow — 2018, Montreal, Canada

A tiled courtyard seen from under a carved lattice — 2021, Marrakech, Morocco

A smiling woman in a pink checked headscarf — 2014, Sapa, Vietnam

An older man with a shaved head, half his face in shadow, against a black background — 2010, New York, USA, Tony Ndogo

A woman with green eyes and gold earrings, half lit, against a black background — 2011, Amsterdam, Montana, USA, Carly Danhof-Bellach

A man with round glasses and a dark high-collared jacket against a black background — 2013, Shanghai, China, Huang Jianhua

A closed bar front covered in graffiti, the sign reading Bar le Cinéma — 2019, Villeurbanne, France

Weathered fence posts, one painted with the word AMOR — 2023, Quito, Ecuador

A wall covered with handwritten messages and notes — 2018, Verona, Italy

An older man with white curly hair and a dark jacket, against a dark background — 2019, Villeurbanne, France, Robert Cahen

A young man with dark tousled hair looking into the camera, a blurred room behind him — 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, Luca

A young woman with long braids and pearl earrings, against a grey wall — 2018, Cotonou, Benin, Florida Zossoungbo

Trees and karst hills reflected in still water — 2018, Ninh Binh, Vietnam

Silhouettes of four people at the edge of the surf, seen from above — 2026, Nossa Senhora da Rocha, Portugal

Old sailing boats moored in a harbour under a grey sky — 2026, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Sunlight on the sea and on wet sand, a small figure in the distance — 2026, Caparica, Portugal