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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.
My friend and fellow photographer Tessa Posthuma de Boer (http://posthumadeboer.com) started a new initiative. It provides support to everybody active within the creative and cultural industry; a sector that is hit extremely hard by the Corona-regulations. I was playing around with a similar idea, I called Tessa and we decided to join forces and open…
a selection of portraits I made @ Berlinale 2020 (click to enlarge)
My series “watching the Parade” won second price for the Silver Camera / Paul Peters Award. This the award for Dutch social photography series. Super proud to make second out of 640 series entered, selected by a real fine jury. Jury comment: A layered series about an old tradition – The Shooting clubs in Limburg…
Photography for online communication is something a lot of people underestimate. Oh….. I need some new pictures…. so let’s go….. find some photographer and get it over with. Sorry to say…… but that is the most stupid thing you can do. The pictures that you are presenting yourself with have to be an honest…
Bianca Stigter’s “Atlas van een bezette stad” Amsterdam 1940-1945 Oorlogsverhalen van drieduizend Amsterdamse adressen. Authors Portrait, Bianca Stigter by me.
Portraits of Organic farmers with their product’s. (Made for Slowfood at Boergondische markt autum 2019) click the pictures to enlarge
Sometimes unexpected things happen . During a photoshoot in my neighborhood, I got into a little conversation with my neighbor Walter (72), and invited him for a coffee in my studio. A few days later he visited me and we started talking. He expressed that he had the wish to be photographed naked, and to have a…
Picture I took in my studio for @72andsunny_ for the @epicaawards2019 .
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…
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…