Latest Blog Posts for De Ridder Studio

• Sneak Preview: Landscape Series
  on Sep 2, 2011
  This is the first image I processed for a forthcoming series of landscape pictures. Be warned for nostalgic pictorialism.click to enlarge...
• Rethinking Photography (a bit)
  on Aug 25, 2011
  I have not posted in a while as I was occupied with (other) creative stuff among setting up the Dutch website called hetVERZAMELDWERK where I try to give young aspiring writers, photographers, painters, designers, essayists a platform for their work.
• Burlesque duck-feathered pillow fight
  on Jun 28, 2011
  click to enlargeSince a few years my student club creates a centerfold poster for promotional purposes during the Leiden University introduction week, this year they asked me to take the photograph.  The theme for the magazine in which the cente...
• Update III: Closing in the Subject
  on Jun 25, 2011
  click to enlargeFor the a new portrait project, earlier referenced to as Closing in the Subject (Part I, Part II) I am still considering and trying out what methods to use; how to approach the subject, and how to deal with specific aestheti...
• (accidentally?) Photographing Pieter Lemmens
  on Jun 23, 2011
  click to enlargeYesterday I shot a portrait of Pieter Lemmens (former teacher of mine, now friend) in Rotterdam while we were waiting for our sushi. The portrait was shot with the last sunlight of the day flickering through a rather large w...
• UPDATE: I want to be a painter
  on Jun 12, 2011
  For some time I have been thinking of photographing outdoors making impressionistic images. Silently, I am a painter mourning that I photograph. This is a small preview. I try to make painteresque imagery that only viewed full size (or close by if yo...
• Preview: I want to be a painter
  on Jun 12, 2011
  For some time I have been thinking of photographing outdoors making impressionistic images. Silently, I am a painter mourning that I photograph. This is a small preview. I try to make painteresque imagery that only viewed full size (or close by if yo...
• Self-indulging modern-art
  on Jun 11, 2011
  First, for the past sixty years our Western society has allegorized the individual, in advertisement, film, photography, and movies. When it comes to art, in my opinion, this has process has been perverted over the past few decades. First we had the...
• Officially living together...
  on Jun 8, 2011
  Although the title suggests a big change, we have practically lived together for the past 18 months. Today Lucie moved her last stuff from her place to my apartment and by the 1st of July it is official. As she had real busy day she almost fell aslee...
• Visual Reminiscing
  on Jun 8, 2011
  When my thoughts wander back to my childhood I seldom think of rainy days. Most joyful memories are set in the garden of the house I grew up in, lit in a late afternoon reddish summer sun. Reminiscing I sometimes wonder whether these thoughts esteem...

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