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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.
For some time now I am working on a very personal series I call “Story of my life” for now. I’m portraying people that, in one way or an other, are in my life,. Bart is a Grafic-Designer and Cartoonist. I see him almost everyday when he delivers my mail. These portraits I made in…
I made portraits of Veronica and Teo today. He is just 15 but …… there is a much older soul inside. (Click to enlarge)
PHOTO WORKSHOP With guidance from André Bakker; your personal photo coach Why would you follow a photography workshop? Just for fun and explore your photography skills? Or do you wish to have a better understanding of your camera? Maybe photography is your hobby and you want to learn something new? Or do you have ambitions…
IN THE SERIES WHAT THE F### … IS IT WHAT YOU DO ????” Most of the time people, that are not used to being photographed, need a bit of time to get used to me and get the feeling for the whole situation. As I want to portrait people in a honest way that reflect…
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…