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From extensive art projects to single photographs in which every detail is perfect: The camera is André Bakker’s passion. Although his work starts at a much earlier point: With his extraordinary eye for personalities and settings, André develops and manages photography projects with a wide range of characters, from Kate Winslet to Ozzy Osbourne – worldwide, unconventionally and authentically. He captures personalities from an angle that nobody has yet seen them from.
Pushing the shutter release at the exactly right moment is only the icing on the cake.
Hans and I go back a long long long way. I met him when we where both working for “filmkrant” , me as a photographer and Hans as a film-critic . Hans retired from his impressive career as a film and TV critic this year, and will now concentrate on writing his next book. NRC…
Here some of pictures I took of my God-‘Child’ Ruben. His modeling career just took off………….and 19 years fly.
IN THE SERIES WHAT THE F### … IS IT WHAT YOU DO ????” Bernhard Krusche is an imposing big dude, and like many of these impressive figures, a real nice guy. So in his communication I tried to find a mix between his natural powerful charisma, his sweet site and his professionalism. He had to…
IN THE SERIES WHAT THE F### … IS IT WHAT YOU DO ????” My assignment to portrait Joe Kennedy I loved immediately. The guy developed a super successful method to help children with learning disabilities like Dyslexia, ADS, ADHS and dyscalculia. So me as a left-hander, that was forced to write right-handed , (with all…
In the series WHAT THE F### … IS IT WHAT YOU DO ????” When I got the assignment to fly to Switzerland to photograph Fernando Christian I took of with just a camera, one lens and a tripod. I decided to work as minimalistic as possible after reading and discussing his positioning. He grew up in…
Many People ask me all the time:“What are all these portrait-shoots you do for? “, “Who are these people?”, “How do you do it?” Over the next post I will try to give you an insight in, how I work, with whom I work, and how the work is being implemented in websites, books ect. Starting here…
Many People ask me all the time:“What are all these portrait-shoots you do for? “, “Who are these people?”, “How do you do it?” Over the next post I will try to give you an insight in, how I work, with whom I work, and how the photography is being implemented in websites, books, media, ect. …
Here a portrait I made of my new Studio neighbor Horst Grutering. He is a designer and makes fantastic jewelry for men. (click the picture for a larger view.) So let’s go ………..and make a lot of portraits from the inhabitants of “LOODS 6”. More to come.
I have just moved from my old studio in “de Pijp” in Amsterdam, to the fantastic new location of Loods 6 in Amsterdam, and My website has gotten a complete overhaul. Loods 6 is situated on the K.N.S.M.-island in “het IJ”. “Het IJ” is the connecting water between IJselmeer and the North-sea, and runs behind…