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Bert Teunissen
Bert
Teunissen
was
born
in
1959
in
Ruurlo,
the
Netherlands.
He
went
to
Amsterdam
in
1984
to
work
as
a
photographer's
assistant
and
became
an
independent
commercial
photographer
in
1987.
Bert
worked
for
all
the
major
advertising
agencies
and
magazines
for
about
10
years
before
he
started
to
make
personal
projects.
Since
1996,
he's
been
working
on
a
project
called
Domestic
Landscapes.
The
project
is
about
light—natural
daylight.
The
photos
show
how
daylight
illuminated
the
domestic
interior,
and
how
it
dictated
the
way
interiors
were
built,
used
and
decorated.
Consideration
for
this
specific
light
and
the
atmosphere
it
created
originated... Read More
in
the
architecture
of
the
pre-electricity
era,
when
daylight
was
the
main
source
of
light.
This
kind
of
light
started
to
disappear
from
European
homes
after
World
War
II.
At
this
moment,
few
of
these
homes
remain.
The
project
is
Bert's
personal
quest
to
document
the
light
and
atmosphere
of
his
youth.
The
house
in
which
he
was
born
and
raised
was
taken
down
by
his
parents
when
he
was
eight
years
of
age.
The
new
house
was
built
to
new
standards.
The
light
in
his
photographs
is
the
same
that
was
used
by
the
great
Dutch
masters—Vermeer,
Josef
Israëls
and
Pieter
de
Hoogh—in
their
paintings.
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