Police Academy

My new project is called Playground. The Netherlands have several training facilities where members of the Fire Brigade, the Police Force and the Ministry of Defense are trained and prepared for a wide range of possible scenarios. Within the boundaries of these grounds it’s all just practice or ‘play’. Outside of them however, things are a lot more serious. My aim was to capture these facilities and the people who are trained there.

Oostorp – Urban Warfare training Harskamp – 50 shooting range CSI – Forensic Detectives investigate a fake crime scene Harskamp – Shooting range for small weapons, Special Forces Heerenveen – Nautical Firetraining Centre Royal Dutch Navy – Nucleair/Biological/Fire/ training center of the Royal Dutch Navy Urban War Urban War Oostdorp – Training area for urban warfare Police Academy Police Academy Police Academy Army – Camouflage training Safetycenter Firetraining Centre Safetycenter Fire training centre Schiphol Airport Firetraining Centre Army Construction Workers Gasstation Royal Dutch Navy – Area for ‘team builing and management’ Urban War – The Siege of a fake town existing of 180 houses… which are al build to train on Urban warfare Police Academy Lelystad

Bio

Jeroen Hofman graduated in 2002 at he Royal Academie of Arts in The Hague, the Netherlands. Since then he works as a free lance photographer on editorial assignments and non-commissioned projects.

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