infreRED new photobook with beautiful portaits of 'gingers'

infra RED

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infraRED. Beautiful natural redheads posed for my 3rd photobook.

Natural redheads always fascinate me. They are about to be extinct some day in the future. I want to capture their beauty before they are.
Experiment: I used the infrared technique and eliminated all colour. Asking myself: will wreckles vanish? How pale will their skin get? What happens to 'red' in infra-red?

The first part of the book are the portraits in infraRED, turn the book upside down and compare the colour photos, same sequence.

More about my redhead art.

FIFA & the Dutch Dress of Bavaria beer

Photo of Dutch babes in forbidden orange dresses is still showing on official FIFA website

More news @ Omroep Brabant (Dutch) about the arrests & forbidden dresses (design by Bavaria beer) worn by Dutch, beautiful blond women @ the first match of the Netherlands @ the Worldcup 2010.

It started with a ban of the Dutch babes wearing the short, orange dresses to the stadium, as Budweiser is one of the official sponsors and Bavaria beer isn't. RESPECT to the advertising agency: it worked!!! Now everybody knows about the small Dutch beer brand LOL. (well, small, Bavaria isn't anymore but compared to Heineken it is) Heineken: eat your heart out! ;)

dressed as Danish supporters they entered the stadium...

Trash The Dress 10-10-'10

Mass Trash The Dress.

This year photographer Hans van Nunen and I will organise another mass Trash The Dress in the Netherlands. Last year, 09-09-'09 was a huge success, with our brides trashing their dresses in the Northsea, they were news worldwide :)

The Arjan van Dijkgroep will host this event on their beautiful location Fort St. Gertrudis in Geertruidenberg, NL. Party time 1-6 pm, there will be several shoots, including a high-tea-buffet and... champagne!

More information in this (Dutch) pressrelease. Fellow-photographers welcome, as are partners, friends and non-dressed-up people.

If you want to go to a PHOTO PARTY, this is it!

Selfportrait Polaroid 779 film

Selfportrait, 26 May 2010, Artstudio23 Breda, the Netherlands.

Testing my new (old) film, there's no Polaroid 600 film available anymore, only expired (outdated) old stuff, but still...I like it!
LIVE FOR THE MOMENT, as once Polaroid said :)

Hugh 'House' Laurie in Polaroid commercial LMAO

NB! The Impossible Project produces new sepia film as we speak, in the Netherlands, Enschede, in the old Polaroid factory :))

beautiful Turkey

Empty beach @ Marmaris, Turkey

We had a marvelous holiday in Marmaris, Turkey this springbreak, and even though we've lost over 70 Dutch in the planecrash, I am still happy we flew out to the sun. In the Netherlands it was only 6-10 degrees Celcius, over 10 degrees below average for this time of year, so I am freezing at the moment. We left Turkey with 39 C...and came back to 8...
Turkey is a beautiful country, the people are very nice and modern and their leader to democracy Atatürk did a good job so far. Ofcourse Turkey is still very oriental, but what's wrong with that!? In NL and other European countries they still won't accept Turkey to the EU, but...is ths something they'd really want or need??

I loved the people, the land, the atmosphere and loved it being (a little) different then ours. That's what it makes such a nice country, the modern thoughts in an oriental package...lovely!
Love the colourfull neon lights everywhere in the town. Marmaris is fairly new, with modern shops and a new boardwalk and everything.

The 'evil eye' actually is a good eye, to protect you from jealousy. It's thought to be Medusa 's eye and when Christianity came to Turkey (Islamic religion came 500 years later) it's also meant to be the eye of the fish-symbol, which is the letters of God, his Son, the holy Spirit.

4 & 5 May

Scheveningen, 5 May 1995, Liberationday - invasion of the beach

Today, May 4, the Netherlands were occupied by the German army for the last day 65 years ago. On May 5 1945 we finally were liberated all, by the American, English, Polish & Canadian army.
Via Twitter there's a call for a "Twittersilence" tonight at 20.00h (8pm) as we remember the dead with two minutes of silence every year on May 4, 8pm. As if we nowadays can't sit still for two minutes...are we really that bad that we need a call? Do we really want to Tweet every minute of the day? Also, 8pm our time isn't 8pm your time when you are in a different timezone.

More about our Liberationday on Wiki.

Still it's a weird day, May 5. We don't have a bankholiday (why not?) as we do on April 30, when it's Queen's day "Koninginnedag". We celebrate our Queen Beatrix' birthday too with a bankholiday for everyone.

May 5 seems to be a day of (pop)festivals and beer mostly, just like Koninginnedag. On May 5 1995 me and Hans were strolling along Scheveningen beach, with D-day-like invasions of soldiers, bomb explosions and a parade of veterans. Next to the impressive landing on the beach, I was stunned by the disrespect of the watching people. Yuk...almost a naked bum, hairy naked backs etc...
We must never forget the war, not only WorldWar II but also the more recent violence all around the world.


Vanished productions present: Breda 1942-1943

Pilot. Send to "The One Minutes" for the "Where history begins / Schatten van Brabant" theme. One day soon we hope to be able to make a full lenght film of all empty houses, as there are 25 houses in my hometown Breda that were abandoned in the war. (our One Minute film only features 6) We must never forget!
...The Jews who lived in it never came back, as they almost all died in the camps like "Auschwitz" & "Westerbork" .

Mothersnight

May 8 it's the "Mothersnight" in the Netherlands (May 9 is our national Mothersday).

11 pregnant ladies posed for me last week, Simavi can use these lovely images of their pregnant bellies for their campaign against the high rates of mothers dying when pregnant or giving birth worldwide. It's Milleniumgoal no. 5, and it's the goal with the worst results so far.
In Breda, my hometown, there will be an event at the old cityhall, and worldwide the UN hopes to draw attention to this problem too. For some reason women aren't considered equal to men, but as the giver of life wo hould be charished and loved, not put down and thrown away when (men) consider them useless, like when they only deliver babygirls and not -boys.
It's irritating the hell out of me. I am a mother myself and can't understand the way some (men) are thinking. And for me it's hard to see e.g. the photos of Marco Vernaschi Dying for Treatment. When I look at them, my heart breaks and I want to leave NL and rush there and go help myself.
Two women waiting to give birth in the pre-birth room. The whole hospital is in desperate hygiene conditions and suffers from lack of facilities. In same cases, the lack of goodwill of the Guinean Government is the cause of such conditions. There are 700 hospital beds and a new surgery room ready to be sent to Guinea Bissau, but as the Guinean Government insisted to charge custom taxes, the material will be sent somewhere else.
We must stop this madness. The children are the world!
Support Simavi with their struggle. Or check www.Moedernacht.nl (Dutch) for more information.