AMSTERDAM.- For this year’s Document Nederland, the photo-documentary produced annually by the Rijksmuseum and the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad, Dana Lixenberg travelled for a year across the Netherlands to create a portrait of the office of mayor. She met and portrayed male and female mayors in 22 different municipalities in all of the Dutch provinces – going from Amsterdam to Zeewolde, and from Ferwerderadeel to Kerkrade. There are 418 mayors in the Netherlands. We see them wearing their chain of office on the Queen’s Birthday or talking to the press when disaster strikes. But what does the mayor’s job look like on an average working day? Using a large format camera, Lixenberg highlights the unspectacular and sets the everyday of the civil service against a characteristic Dutch backdrop. Featuring a selection of 55 photographs, the exhibition presents a crosssection of