Willem de Roon
Willem de Roon (1971) completed his study at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 1997. He became a photographer whose work has its own identity and style. This style can easily be recognized and is aesthetically balanced. You can recognize the pictures of De Roon inthe way he uses colours and powerful compositions. His ‘stills’ are so abstract
that it’s hard to believe you are looking at a photograph. Some particular portraits almost look like a ‘still’ in which a person appears. Not that these pictures will ever bore you, on the contrary, there is always something happening in these portraits, spontanity is always important.
Apart from ‘stills’ and portraits De Roon also makes travel-documentaries and is commissioned to unexpected directions sometimes. Recently he made a series of short movies for the VPRO television-program ‘Sportpaleis de Jong’.
Besides that he made a photobook for the Dutch Parliament. Spectacular and unique was his complete issue of the magazine ‘Rails’ (dec 2000/jan 2001) for which he made a series of ninety (!) portraits of babies.