ABOUT
| Auke Vleer Auke Vleer - 1968, studied photography at the Academy of fine arts St.Joost, Breda. He moved to New York in 1994 for a period of 5 years and developed his documantary style of photography. Auke's work has appeared in many magazines and publications including Vrij Nederland, The New York Times Magazine and British Marie-Claire. His work has also been exhibited in Rheims, New York, Amsterdam, Amersfoort and Auckland. In 2003 he published a book entitled 'All American' (see below) in cooperation with Barbara Dijkhuis. Later on Auke became interested in moving image as well and started numerous expiriments with stop-motion together with editor/film maker Peter Boonstra. Resulting in a series of stop motion tv commercials for SNS bank /KesselKramer, being one of the first to implement lo-fi techniques into the corporate world of financial products . Also in the field of commissioned work, Auke has been working for many book projects as well as commercial campaigns, both, photography and film with critically-acclaimed advertising agencies including N=5,Kesselskramer, Result DDB, Saatchi&Saatchi and They. Auke is currently working on a new Book/Exhibition project in collaboration with creative director/photographer Peter Hebbing. Peter and Auke expect this project to arrive in spring/summer 2012 All american book and exhibition, That most American of activities, the cross-country road trip, is here appropriated by two Dutch artists who set out to understand the United States in a way they never could through advertisements. From Los Angeles to New York, photographer Auke Vleer and designer Barbara Dijkuis traveled 8,000 kilometers (or 5,000 miles, depending on your point of view) over backroads and through small towns, documenting the landscapes, places and people they met along the way. A map that cleverly folds open from the cover of the book documents their journey. Through 750 images, laid out geographically from West Coast to East, the artists put the reader in the back seat, showing her America through their eyes. Tyler Whisnand's text for the book provides the soundtrack on the car's radio and the ultimate one-liner: inspired by Vleer and Dijkuis's pictures, Whisnand wrote a 3,000-word sentence that reflects his own vision of his home country. All American book ISBN 9075380674 Artimo, Paperback, 176 pages exhibition Photography Museum Amsterdam FOAM, Netherlands |
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