Ed van der Elsken approached his work with a determined subjectivity. “I’m not a journalist, an objective reporter,” he once wrote. “I am a man with likes and dislikes.” Born in Amsterdam in 1925, the Dutch native moved to Paris in his early twenties, and quickly gravitated to the disaffected bohemian youth reshaping the city after the war. Up until his death, in 1990, he and his camera chased the rebel energy, catching teens kissing on the Seine, a cyclist sticking out her tongue, young boys celebrating Queen’s Day on the streets of Amsterdam. Van der Elsken’s photographs revel in life at its most raw and unfiltered moments, an extension of his own free-spirited, nomadic nature. For the first time, his work from many decades and continents is presented across nine galleries in his home city, alongside notes and dark room experiments. “I report on young rebellious scum with pleasure,” he said in the 1971 film The Infatuated Camera. “I rejoice in life; I’m not complicated, I rejoice in everything.” —Maggie Turner