willemstreet

Willem Jonkers


Rotterdam, ZH, Netherlands
Sobre

I'm a street photographer living in the Rotterdam area. What street photography exactly is, I cannot define. I just like photographing persons on the streets that otherwise probably won't be noticed or will be forgotten like most of us.

By going at distances of sometimes less than one foot, my subjects fill the frame completely, but still with a good sense of the surroundings they are moving around in because of the wideness of the lenses I use. The intended distortion of a fisheye lens makes that framing possible. We as humans tend to think we're very important, but the opposite is true. Within the universe we are not that significant and that's the controversy within my frames by displaying my subjects in an unusual way.

Very often I photograph just right in front of someone's feet from a very low angle and you'll get that "Gulliver" effect which gives my subject that 'greatness' in my frames. Secondly, meandering the streets and scanning for beautiful, strange or otherwise interes

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