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Thijs groot Wassink (born 1981) and Ruben Lundgren (born 1983) are two Dutch photographers who work together as WassinkLundgren. Their photography and film projects shift mundane, often unnoticeable, everyday occurrences into visually compelling and gently amusing observations of the world around us. Notable projects include Empty Bottles (2007), Tokyo Tokyo (2010) and This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land (2012). They also worked as editors and curators on The Chinese Photobook (2015). Thijs groot Wassink lives in London while Ruben Lundgren lives in Beijing.

Career
The duo met at the Utrecht School of the Arts where they graduated from the photography department in 2005. Their first collaborative publication Is Still Searching was given away for free, but not until they had torn out the pages that were no longer relevant to them at that specific moment. Their succeeding publication Empty Bottles (2007) won the Prix du Livre for Best Contemporary Photobook at Rencontres d'Arles and is included in The Photobook: A History Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger.

From 2007 to 2008 Thijs groot Wassink studied Fine Arts (MA) at the Central Saint Martins in London. Ruben Lundgren studied photographic design (MA) at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 2007 to 2011. They have worked with the Archive of Modern Conflict on the photobooks Don't Smile Now... Save it for Later! (2008) and Tokyo Tokyo (2010). In 2011 their project Tokyo Tokyo was nominated for the Dutch Doc Award, an annual award for the best Dutch documentary work of the year. In their series This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land (2012) they document the most expensive part of the Netherlands, the financial district called the Zuidas. By doing so, they challenge our expectations of land, value, and the value of land.

Their work is ofter described as playful and inventive. Sean O'Hagan, photo critic for The Guardian, talks about their shared instinct for often freeform exploration: the willingness to follow an idea where it leads, not in order to exhaust it, but simply to see where it leads"

Together with Martin Parr they worked as editors and curators on The Chinese Photobook (2105). The book, published by Aperture Foundation in April 2015, tells the history of China from 1900 up to the present in photobooks. WassinkLundgren's work is represented by Pékin Fine Arts Gallery in Beijing.

Books
 Monographs 
 * 2013: Hits, Fw: Publishing Amsterdam, with contributions by Sean O'Hagan, Bohm/Kobayashi, Merel Bem, Diane Smyth, dewham5, Tom Claxton, Michiel Goudswaard and others.
 * 2010: Tokyo Tokyo, Kodoji Press in association with Archive of Modern Conflict.
 * 2008: Don't smile now... Save it for Later!, Archive of Modern Conflict.
 * 2007: Empty Bottles, Veenman Publishers, with texts by Hans Moleman en Floris-Jan van Luyn.

 Books edited 
 * 2015: The Chinese Photobook (with Martin Parr), Aperture Foundation, with text by Gu Zheng, Stephanie Tung, Raymund Lum, Gerry Badger and Ruben Lundgren.

Exhibitions (selected)

 * 2015: The Chinese Photobook, The Photographers' Gallery, London
 * 2013: One Group Show (solo), Foam, Amsterdam
 * 2013: Don't Smile Now... Save it for Later!, MAI (Montréal, Arts Interculturels), as part of Mois de la Photo à Montréal, together with Tomoko Sawada.
 * 2008/2009: ParrWorld, touring exhibition, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2008; Breda Design Museum, The Netherlands, 2008; Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2009; Baltic, Gateshead, UK, 2009

Collections
WassinkLundgren's work is held in the collections of Stedelijk Museum and Fotomuseum Winterthur.