Ellen Kooi, a photographer from the Netherlands, shines especially aesthetic natural result of his photographs: landscapes, which are always thoroughly investigated the scene of great characters, with a striking presence.
Photographer and “set designer” at the time, Ellen Kooi uses landscapes ideal for producing images that appear straight out of a dream or a great country.
His work tends toward an ideal, where the eternal search for balance between beauty and romance, reality and fiction award.
The fruit of his labor? Snapshots full of innuendo, contradictions emerging, characters who speak for themselves, with their loneliness, their vulnerability and their relationship with their surroundings.
An ambience of its own, a light crude in appearance, size enigmatic, captivating and spontaneous details that make the work of this artist, a work of a new genus.
Photographer and “set designer” at the time, Ellen Kooi uses landscapes ideal for producing images that appear straight out of a dream or a great country.
His work tends toward an ideal, where the eternal search for balance between beauty and romance, reality and fiction award.
The fruit of his labor? Snapshots full of innuendo, contradictions emerging, characters who speak for themselves, with their loneliness, their vulnerability and their relationship with their surroundings.
An ambience of its own, a light crude in appearance, size enigmatic, captivating and spontaneous details that make the work of this artist, a work of a new genus.
Released
04/11/2010
Collection
Hors Collection
Format
340 x 250
Anglais/Français
Relié couverture cartonnée
40 color photos
80 pages
ISBN : 978-2-35046-198-4
Press review
- 03/07/2012 Ellen Kooi (Images Magazine)
- 01/06/2011 Out Of Sight par Jean-Marc Le Scouarnec (La Dépêche du Midi)
- 15/02/2011 Out of Sight (Réponses Photo)
- 15/02/2011 Out of Sight (Azart)
- 20/12/2010 Out of Sight par Hadrien Le Gray (Images Magazine)
- 16/12/2010 Out of Sight par Frédérique Fanchette (Libération supplément livres)
- 08/11/2010 Ellen Kooi - Out of Sight (Dossier de presse)
- 28/10/2010 Portefolio Ellen Kooi (PHOTO)
Ellen Kooi is a Dutch photographer born in 1962 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). At 19, she studied at the School of Fine Arts ABK Minerva Groningen, until 1987. In 1993, she studied a year at the Rijks Academy in Amsterdam. Ellen Kooi now lives and works in Haarlem, the Netherlands. In addition to his artistic career, she teaches Fine Arts Minerva Groningen.
She is represented by the gallery of girls suffering in Paris.
She is represented by the gallery of girls suffering in Paris.
Bernard Marcelis was born in Brussels in 1953. Trained historian, art critic and curator. Regular contributor to Artpress chronicling photographic festivals (Arles, Moscow, Madrid), but also to Photo Connaissance des Arts. It addresses both the photograph as contemporary art, exhibitions and decrypting addressing the work of artists through interviews.