Hanne van der Woude, is a young dutch Photographer, with an eye for natural colors and visual dynamic.
Monica, Series ‘MC1R Natuurlijk rood haar’ by Hanne Van Der Woude, 2007
As every first-year art student knows, red and green are complementary colours and combining them produces huge optical impact. Put a red dot on a green plane and something special happens: the image starts to move and vibrate.
In 2004, Hanne van der Woude eyed the landscape around Nijmegen (a city in the east of the Netherlands, near the German border) with this knowledge in mind. She stood in the floodplain beside the River Waal and thought how she could make the green washlands look even greener. Her mind turned to redheads.
It was the start of a quest to find models with red hair. To begin with, it wasn’t easy. She started to hang around outside primary schools and go up to people in the street; the search gradually turned into obsession.
After reading in an English newspaper that people with naturally red hair are a vanishing breed, Van der Woude got the idea of photographing as many of them as possible and producing a book of the photographs.
Press Release KYOTOGRAPHIE - "The 5th edition of the KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival will be held from April 15th–May 14th 2017, presenting 14 exhibitions around the theme “LOVE” all shown in iconic Kyoto venues with original scenography.
The Kyotographie International Photography Festival is held annually over four weeks during the height of the spring tourist season in Kyoto, in a style that is unique in Asia. Exhibitions are spread across the city, staged creatively in various traditional and contemporary settings. The exhibitions and events create opportunities, bringing people together of all ages, cultures and backgrounds. Now recognized as one of the world’s leading photography events, Kyotographie has attracted some 250,000 visitors from within Japan and ...
"Can you turn off the lights? Or are you too lazy?" An elderly lady appears from behind stacks of boxes filled with old paper. Her entangled hair sticks out in every direction, she wears three aprons which she has knotted on top of one another and smiles with a teasing look in her eyes. Photographer Hanne van der Woude looks up, staggered. After having shot test portraits of the retired graphic artist Ben in his impressive home, a previous school building in de Betuwe, he encouraged her to go on a little exploration tour. Now, in one of the attics, she stood opposite to his spouse and was thunderstruck. Who is this woman, she thought, with her excentric physiology and unaffected, frank way of approach her surroundings? She urges to unravel her, come closer to her, catch her in an image.
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