The www.utwente.nl/beeldbank website has recently added an extensive photo and video collection. Images of the campus through the years, buildings, student life, portraits of prominent professors and university staff, photographs and films of special moments in the 50-year history of the University of Twente. All of this and more can be viewed at the University of Twente Image Bank.
The photos have been assembled from various collections. Much of the work by former UT photographer Jan Hesselink has been digitized. His photographs filled the university's historical archives for years. The UT News photo archives have also been digitized. The image bank also includes architectural photography by Peter Timmerman, director of Studium Generale, and colour photographs from the recently published book De nieuwe Campus ('The new Campus'). Recent video materials, created for informational purposes or to showcase current research, can be found under the VIDEO heading. One example is the film 'UT Heroes', which was the final thesis project of IDE student Cor Heeres. The university's old 16mm films have also been digitized.
The image bank is managed by the Library & Archive Service Centre and is open to everyone. Small-format photos may be downloaded freely. To obtain a larger format, e.g. to be used in printed materials, please contact the editors atbeeldbank@utwente.nl. You can also contact them if you have new images to add to the collection or additional information on people portrayed in images in the collection. If you wish to make use of an image with a watermark, then you should ask the editors for the relevant photographer's address. You can then contact the photographer yourself to discuss possibilities for using the image.
The image bank is an initiative of Joke ter Hellen (B&A), Professor of Design History Jan Willem Drukker, and Rikus Eising, Dean of ET. Ter Hellen: "There is so much worthwhile film and photo material on UT available. It's a shame that so few people are aware of it. And it is so very important to preserve this material by digitizing it. I would like to encourage anyone with photo and video material about the university to bring it to us, rather than just forgetting about it in some dark cupboard."
