Rein Jelle Terpstra

Since 2014, Terpstra has been working on the project The Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View. ^[2]

In this project, he reconstructs the journey of the funeral train of the assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy on 8 June 1968, through photos taken by bystanders. This project resulted in an installation, film, and book, and has been exhibited at the SFMoMA in San Francisco, which acquired the work.^{[citation needed]} This long-running project has been exhibited at various locations including the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Fabra y Coats in Barcelona, and the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. In 2019, Stiftung Buchkunst^[3] awarded the book The Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train—The People’s View a gold medal and deemed it "The Most Beautiful Book in the World".^[4]

Terpstra has also created several works in public spaces, such as the artwork for the residential complex Groeneveen ^[5] and the wave project in IJburg. ^[6]

• Nabeelden, Album van de niet gemaakte foto (Publisher De Balie, 2002). For this collection, he invited 29 artists and writers to write a story about a photo they were unable to take. This project has been exhibited at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, which acquired the project in the form of an audio table (2010).^[7]
• Retracing (Publisher post editions 2013): a visual account of a collaboration with people losing their eyesight. ^[8]
• Donkere Duinen (self-published, in collaboration with Willem van Zoetendaal, 2021). Donkere Duinen is based on a collection of negatives shot during the wartime occupation of '40-'45 and has been exhibited at the Fotomuseum Den Haag (2022–2023). ^[9]