Hassink loved to capture the silence beside the places of power

Also for Power Plants: Queen Bees (1996-2000) and Arab Domains (2005-2006), she focused on power, this time from women CEOs. With The Table of Power 2, (2009-2011), where she also added banks and financial institutions after the crisis, she won the Dutch Doc Award in 2013. It was the One of the many awards she has awarded for her photography and books – she has received more than ten in recent years with designer Irma Boom.

Hassink's photography is characterized by his conceptual and series-based work method. The very strict administration rooms seemed even narrower because of the lack of staff. His main concern was the idea and its most conscientious effect as possible.

She was known for her extensive research and long breathing. For example, View, Kyoto (2004-2014), her first project on silence and nature, she visited more than seventy Japanese temples and monasteries on bicycles for several years and had contacts Intensive with Buddhist monks before. she really started with photography.

The Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam recently acquired all the works of Unwired exhibited at the museum this spring. Hassink donated to the museum a complete set of prints of The Table of Power, of his (negative) archives and all accompanying documentation are kept by the museum. "When she knew that she would not improve, she started a conversation with us," says Frits Gierstberg, curator of Fotomuseum. "To know that his work would be in good hands has given him peace."