Bastiaan Woudt (NL, 1987) has made a meteoric rise in the world of contemporary photography. After starting his own photography practice five years ago, without experience or formal training, Bastiaan Woudt has developed into a photographer with his own distinctive style - abstract but sharp, with a strong focus on detail.
A student of the history of photography by devouring photography books and visiting museums and fairs, Bastiaan Woudt has a strong preference for classical subjects, such as portraits and nudes, and in his work we see references to illustrious periods in photography, such as Surrealism and the documentary photography of the 1960s and 1970s. But through a sophisticated use of both camera and post-production techniques, which he taught himself by experimenting intensively with both, Bastiaan Woudt puts his own graphic and entirely contemporary spin on the classic.
