From July 29 to September 13, 2015, photographs of Jan van Breda were on display in Museum Jan van der Togt. The exhibition showed an overview of the Van Breda oeuvre: recognizable, picturesque, with a beautiful balance of light and dark and sometimes a "raw" edge.

Jan van Breda (1958) started his career as a photographer 11 years ago at the FotoAcademie in Amsterdam. Shortly before his final exams - in 2006 - he quit his training to work as a trainee photographer at Het Parool, where he previously worked as an image editor.

In the same year, Van Breda won the second prize in the "Documentary single image" category with the Zilveren Camera with a photo of the annual Canal Parade of the Gay Pride. After his internship, he worked for a year as a house photographer for designer Marcel Wanders. In his spare time, Van Breda made the "Moved" series, about the last residents of the Amstelhof care home, which now houses the Hermitage Museum. Since opening, fifty images from this documentary have been part of the museum's permanent exhibition.

After a year, Van Breda opted for an independent photographer. Or as he once described it himself: “I want people in front of my camera, not chairs and lamps. The designs of Wanders are beautiful, but when shooting in the Amstelhof the penny dropped. ”In the years that followed, Van Breda made countless portraits for Het Parool and other newspapers and magazines. He also made covers for a number of books and CDs, including the book by Arie Boomsma and Stephan Sanders about men and their bodies. In 2008 his work - with a photo of a beaten up Jewish boy - was awarded the first prize in the category "Portraits single image" at the Silver Camera.

Van Breda, born in Amstelveen, retains warm memories of the location of Museum Jan van der Togt. Almost 40 years ago he started his working life there in the offices of Amstelland Pers in the subscription department of the Amstelveens Weekblad. Van Breda therefore regards this exhibition as the return of a lost son, or perhaps better in keeping with his oeuvre: The homecoming Queen.