Willem Wernsen ( BMK/EFIAP)Photographer from The Netherlands.
Photography is my passion, since 1986 I am intensively busy photographing people. As a matter of fact, always in a social-documentary way.
Like this I made a series with the title: "visions of life" A series of pistures of people being photographed in their own, so familair environment. I have also taken al large number of portraits of people with a, for me, very characteristic charisma. just straightforwardly photographed in their own backyard with available light in a studio-like surrounding, consisting of a black cloth hanging from the washing line.
The last couple of years I am beginning to explore street photography and with a lot of ups and downs I have acquired the skills of this form of photography also. In that way I have been cruising through Paris for a day or ten with my camera and have I traveled for 5 weeks through China together with my sister-in law, who is a interpreter / translator of the Chinese language. As a photographer I am a member of two photo groups: Delta F and Fotogroep Soest. These are groups of photographers with a limited number of members. For about once a month we come together to discuss our photographic works. Both groups are related to the Fotobond (Photographic union of the Netherlands) which is an umbrella institution for Photography groups. All my photographic works I finish myself in the darkroom en the last couple of years I am exclusively working with the mid-size format "Mamya 6 MF with the 50 / 75 mm lens".
Site:
www.fotowillem.nl /
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