Arthur Nieuwenhuys is a Dutch photographer and visual artist based in France. He studied at the Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris under Christian Boltanski. He has been photographing for forty years.

His early work is constructed and theatrical — objects, bodies, and symbols arranged with deliberate intensity. The later work is quieter: images that appear simple, almost indifferent, yet hold a tension that resists easy reading. This shift led to Easy Realism, a movement he founded on the conviction that reality, photographed without embellishment, is already enough. And that we may come to miss it.

More recently he has developed Easy Illusion — the recognition that every image is a replacement. Clean, convincing, and often empty.

Alongside his photography he built Thurbot, a machine critic that writes weekly about his archive. Not as promotion. As pressure.

This site is the archive of forty years of looking.