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If it weren’t for the StumbleUpon toolbar and my unbelievable boredom I never would have came across Rinze van Brug’s portfolio/website. He’s a photographer now living in NYC, but originally from Amsterdam. Rinze van Brug went to school for art/design and then broke into the advertising world. He worked with several different clients as an art director at Ogilvy. Photography was often part of the client work he produced, and before long he realized that it was his true calling. Browsing his portfolio, there are fashion photography pieces that easily look like they could have come out of an issue of Vogue, and others from a designer’s website or catalogue. I’m dying to know what designers he’s worked with because I really like some of the clothing featured in his work.
I probably wouldn’t be writing about vanBrug if I had not seen the photos at the end of his portfolio. He’s done some really beautiful portraits, and what I think is his best work are the shots taken of cities like Amsterdam, NYC, Florence, and Venice. There are a series images from each city, and what I particularly like is how the images are grouped together. van Brug has done this in a spectacular way, and has created a whole that is greater than the sum if its parts, which is not to say that each individual photo can’t speak for itself. van Brug’s photos truly capture the essence of each different city he photographed. He has managed to do this by using iconic symbols from each city in a subtle way. In the photos of Venice vanBrug skips the gondolas, but rather shows a clothesline hanging across a canal. In Amsterdam you see two people kissing in front of a store window lit up in red.
All images and background information: Rinze van Brug Photography.
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