My name is: Katy Strange
May 22, 2013 | posted in My name is:, Nudity, Photography, Talent | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
My name is Katy Strange. I am a photographer. I was born in 1989 in the Netherlands. I studied and graduated at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts & Design. You could say that I’m a dreamer, a cuddly sleeper and from time to time a little naïve. Furthermore I kinda live my life filled[...]
Carla van de Puttelaar & Mona Kuhn @ Kahmann Gallery
May 20, 2013 | posted in Art, Exhibitions, Photography | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
I’m really looking forward to see the dual exhibition by the very inspiring photographers Carla van de Puttelaar and Mona Kuhn which runs at Kahmann Gallery Amsterdam until the 29th of June. Presented is selection of works by the two photographers who both make great great nudes in a very natural and pure way, personal, vulnerable, intimate, just beautiful and[...]
Valie Export ‘Body Configurations’
May 20, 2013 | posted in Art, Installations, Photography, Sculptures | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Just discovered these great works by 1940 born Austrian artist Waltraud Höllinger aka Valie Export. Valie is working in many disciplines, such as photography and body performance as shown in these amazing Body Configurations series, as well as in computer animation and the making of sculptures, which you can find here. _ _ _ _ _ _[...]
Martin Bogren ‘Tractor Boys’
May 18, 2013 | posted in Performance, Photography | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Lovely raw images in Swedish photographer Martin Bogren‘s new book called Tractor Boys. ‘Teenagers are bored stiff in the south of Sweden so young people meet up on the outskirts of the villages for car chases mirroring Rebel without a Cause. Big American cars are not involved but old converted Volvos are used that can be driven[...]
The Boat for Singing Together
May 13, 2013 | posted in Art, Music, Performance | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
The Boat for Singing Together is a handmade sculptural raft for people to gather and sing aboard on Jamaica Bay, New York City. Unfortunately, the raft was badly damaged in last years’ hurricane Sandy and has to be rebuild. Wanna help out? Follow this link for more info. And like the project on Facebook. _ _
Music Video Says Hi
May 12, 2013 | posted in Everything else | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Every now and then, we present a list of music videos that we like, mostly new ones, in combination with the occasional still relevant classics of the past….. Either the vids are great, the tracks are great or the whole package is just great. This week there’s new videos by Bibio, Mount Kimbie, Shabazz Palaces, Chance The Rapper, Grimes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Leah[...]
Tess Milne by Ilja Keizer
April 29, 2013 | posted in Photography | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Recently I had the great pleasure of working together with the sweet and lovely, talented Dutch presenter Tess Milne. Good times, drinking coffee, eating apples and doing some pics in a beautiful, all white hotelroom at ‘Hotel The Exchange’ Amsterdam. Find the complete series here. Photography: Ilja Keizer Music: Warpaint / HTRK / CocoRosie Location: Hotel The Exchange _ _[...]
Brad Downey’s great street works
April 29, 2013 | posted in Art, Installations | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Great works by Brad Downey, who creates great street art works by using whatever he finds on his way. Especially loving the works build with bricks, after breaking up neatly paved streets, and the great great trick he pulled of by spraying Berlin’s KaDeWe department store full with green ink using a fire extinguisher, which[...]
Ilja Keizer Diary
April 26, 2013 | posted in Photography, Websites | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
I have a Tumblr Diary now where I will be posting older and newer photos as well as tear-sheets, and other random photography activities related stuff. Follow if you like.. http://iljakeizer.tumblr.com/ Off course I still have my portfolio website as well: http://iljakeizer.com/ _ _
Lovely colorful editorial featuring the beautiful Dutch model Milou Sluis shot by Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones for Numéro. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Very nice sculptures build of concrete and colorful steel by London based designer / artist Fabrice Le Nezet. I worked here on a physical representation of the idea of measure. The objective was to ‘materialize’ tension in a sense, to make the notions of weight, distance and angle palpable…This work lies in the context of[...]
Really nice street art installation by Canadian price winning experimental poet Christian Bök & artist and curator Micah Lexier. _
Loving this new i-Phone dock designed by Jim Simon. No electricity needed, the increase in volume is totally achieved by the cleverly designed / carved blocks of hardwood. Buy via. _ _
Great looking pair of shoes designed by Agustina Bottoni, handcrafted and made of sheets of Tanganika wood. They sure don’t look all too comfortable, but loving the looks. _ _ _
A post about matches. Probably the coolest ones ever, like many cool things, they’re from Japan. Kokeshi Matchtes started as a product in 1994 as part of a group exhibition, for which illustrator Kumi Hirasaka drew faces of KOKESHI (traditional Japanese wooden dolls) on each match by hand. From the year of 2000, Kokeshi Matches are mass[...]
Another great series of works by Switzerland-based photographer Loan Nguyen. With the project called ‘Météo et Phénomènes Naturels’ Loan expresses concerns regarding climate change in a highly original way. Find more here. _ _ _ _ _