Hendrik Kerstens uses his daughter as his
model, immortalizing her, picturing her in relation to events in her
own life as well as projecting onto her his fascination with the Dutch
Master painters of the seventeenth century. His ‘Paula Pictures’, one of which won the PANL Award in 2001, are
reminiscent of Vermeer's painting.
The austerity and clarity of the
photographs, coupled with the serenity of the subject and the
characteristic ‘dutch’ light all combine to create striking, beautiful
and haunting works of art. Kerstens won second prize in the 2008 Taylor Wessing Photographic
Portrait Prize for his iconic work ‘Bag’ which is shown at the National
Portrait Gallery. Born in the Hague in 1956, he is a self taught
photographer whose work has been exhibited in over 40 exhibitions
across Europe and the United States.
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