Reinier Gerritsen Reinier Gerritsen became known in the Netherlands through the commission given to him by the Rijksmuseum to document corporate culture in the Netherlands. The project that gave him international recognition was ‘The Europeans‘. He travelled to all major cities in Europe and made group portraits of people waiting on the zebra crossing. It…
Maarten Kools Maarten Kools, born 1970. Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 1994–1998. Independent photographer since 2005. Maarten works as a portrait and advertising photographer for magazines, newspapers, and other publications. Since 2015, he has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. He is represented by Sandra Witman Agency in Amsterdam.
Bastiaan Koot My name is Bastiaan Koot. I live and work in Amsterdam. I completed the Photo Academy in the past. During my graduation I mainly made self-portraits, I still do, but nowadays I am mainly outside, in the neighborhood, the Amsterdamse Bos, the Noorder-IJplas, the Twiske and sometimes a little further away on the Loire. …
Frank Ruiter Frank Ruiter, Groningen, 1978. He is known for his penetrating portraits, made using natural light, for clients such as de Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, Het Parool, and the Royal Household. For more than twenty years, he has worked from his studio in the Jordaan, where he photographs exclusively in the small kitchen, a space…
Kees Rijken Kees Rijken, Bergen (North Holland). The seaside artists’ village that inspired his new series. After nearly forty years in advertising as an art director and creative director—working at agencies such as BvH Rotterdam, Publicis, Ogilvy, McCann, and Locomotive—his path to Bergen led him to the darkroom. Rijken continues to work on commission, but…
Ernst Yperlaan IIn this era of unprecedented technological advancement, we seek balance through old techniques, nature, nostalgia, and spirituality. In a similar way, the work of Ernst Yperlaan offers an escape back to Romanticism, in the tradition of Dutch landscape painters, with a touch of magical realism. In his series Amsterdam Cityscapes, he follows a…
J.D.Hali J.D. Hali is the pseudonym of commercial photographer Jeroen Dietz. When photography became his livelihood 36 years ago, something was lost—something that had taken shape during five years at the Rietveld Academy and for which there was no room for many years. Over the past six years, this has returned, and I have very…
Maarten van Schaik I feel a strong attraction to the idea of anonymity and independence. As I navigate the world of my work, I seek invisibility—a state in which I can erase myself in order to capture what others, preoccupied with their daily routines, fail to notice. My work is not concerned with factual documentation….
Luuk Kramer Luuk Kramer (Eindhoven, 1958) discovered the allure of photography in his youth when he received his first (plastic) camera. He was fascinated by the two-dimensional—at that time still black-and-white—image that emerged from the camera after a complex process. He studied biology but interrupted his studies for an extended journey to India. During this…
Marc Ferraro Marc Ferraro (1965, NL) In an era dominated by speed and digital perfection, Marc deliberately works analog. He draws inspiration from people, landscapes, flowers, and plants. By working with traditional photographic techniques, he seeks to create new images—sometimes conventional, sometimes offering a completely personal interpretation of reality. Through experimenting with special and often…