Domestic Landscapes

Eastern Europe

Photographer

Bert Teunissen

Concept

This project is about natural daylight. How daylight illuminates the domestic interior, and dictates the way the interior is used and decorated. It is also about Europeans who to this day use natural daylight in their everyday lives. This specific light and the atmosphere it creates have their origin in architecture of the pre-electricity-era, when daylight was the main source of light. The windows are proportioned in relation to the size and function of a room. The illumination they give creates the distinctive and celebrated atmosphere that the old Dutch masters - Vermeer, De Hoogh, Israëls and Rembrandt - captured in their paintings.

Biography

Bert Teunissen, The Netherlands, Ruurlo, 1959

Bert Teunissen has worked as an independent commercial photographer since 1986 for such clients as G-Star, USPS, Heineken, Randstad, John West, ING Bank, Fortis, Bavaria, Goldman Sachs, KLM, Page d?Or, Philips, Citroën, Schweizerische Bundes Bahn SBB, W Magazine, and AHOLD.

He has been working since 1996 on the series “Domestic Landscapes: Western Europe”; the book Domestic Landscapes was published by Aperture in 2007. His exhibitions have traveled the world and Domestic Landscapes won PDN?s Photography Annual Award (4th) and 3rd place in the Book Award of Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) in 2008.

November 2008 saw the publication of On the Road: A Domestic Landscapes Travelog.

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