Knuckleheads

MOVING STILL

2012-01-22T12:44:00.000-08:00

SELFPORTRAIT

2012-01-22T12:42:00.000-08:00

Remember this one? For a selfportrait assigment I emphasized my chaotic side. The presentation is in a little homemade window.

And for my assesment at the academy..

WE FOUND..

2012-01-22T12:35:00.000-08:00

Collabo with Yara van der Velden and Roderik Rotting.

BLOGGING FOR GUP

2011-12-22T03:17:00.000-08:00

I've been writing blogs for GUP magazine. About my big inspiration Cor Jaring for example (see above). Read that one here.

One about African studiophotographer Philip Kwame Apagya and his dream factory. Read that one here.

And one about Ilvy Njiokiktjien, who photographed white boys in South Africa who are being sent to youth camps where they are being indoctrinated with racist ideas. Read it here.

DAMN YOU BIRDS

2011-12-18T07:27:00.000-08:00

ROKIN 32

2011-11-27T14:00:00.000-08:00

CARSTEN FRANKE FOR SNEAKERS MAG

2011-11-27T13:40:00.000-08:00

A simple portrait for the German Sneakers Magazine.

THE DAD AND THE MACHINES

2011-11-27T13:29:00.000-08:00

NDSM

2011-11-17T11:28:00.001-08:00

HE WHO CANNOT SEE

2011-11-17T11:18:00.000-08:00

THE ORIGINAL KNUCKLEHEAD!

2011-11-17T11:13:00.001-08:00

A little test I did for a selfportrait assignment.

HIDE AND SEEK

2011-11-17T11:09:00.001-08:00

For an assignment about architecture, I focused on the relationship between architecture and nature. This was the end result.

Is this nature or is this architecture?

WALK IN LINE

2011-11-17T11:07:00.000-08:00

This was for a school assignment. The middle picture was the first one I took. The other two are inspired by it.

DIESEL ISLAND

2011-11-17T11:02:00.000-08:00

For Diesel I photographed their big Diesel Island party in the Mirandabad, Amsterdam. They transformed the pool into an island, a new nation. With free drinks, everybody half-naked and a gigantic indoor pool, it's needless to say that it was one hell of a night. I don't think I ever took so many photo's in a few hours. Here is a selection, the whole bunch (200!) can be seen on facebook, here.

THE PEOPLE OF THE FAIR

2011-09-19T12:59:00.000-07:00

For technique class we had to experiment a bit with sunlight and flash. With the 4 of us (me, Roderik Rotting, Yara van der Velden and Sousha Arendse), we decided to go the deserted fair in The Hague and shot some random Martin Parr-like portraits.

MYSTERYLAND '11

2011-09-14T14:05:00.000-07:00

Mysteryland was the last festival I visited with BNN & the guys from GUP. It was a rainy rainy day and I risked the life of my camera a few times to take pictures in the streaming rain, but at the end of the day we all survived and we were able to make another festival magazine. The last one. Enjoyed this festival summer alot, thanks to everyone involved for making it a good one and on to the next one!

You can find the magazine here. All the pictures are shot by me, except for the backstage portraits by Annie Hoogendoorn.

My own selection of the pictures I took are found here.

RINGSTEKEN

2011-08-31T13:30:00.000-07:00

"Ringsteken" is a famous tradition that originated in the Middle Ages and that is still being performed in some places, like in Zeeland (the South of Holland).

It is a game where the participant must try to put his lance through a hanging ring, while sitting on a horse that goes in galop. According to the Zeeuwse tradition the participants should be farmers from the region. They start the contest with a ring that has a section of 38mm. Eventually they make it smaller and smaller, till there is only one person left that is able to stick his lance through the ring. To celebrate him the other participants throw him in the air, for about 6 times haha.

It is an intriguing tradition and I was lucky enough to accidently bump into it while having a little vacation on Zeeland. I couldn't help to take a few pictures..

HOOLAHOOPING AT MAGNEETFESTIVAL

2011-08-31T13:02:00.000-07:00

LONDON TOWN

2011-08-28T14:21:00.000-07:00

It always feels like coming home when I arrive in London. What a beautiful city.

NO MAN'S ART @ MUMBAI

2011-08-15T04:55:00.000-07:00

In July the serie An Odd Place In Time was exhibited in Mumbai, India. Ofcourse that was a big thing for me and to top it of there was also a print sold! So there is now a home in India that has my picture on the wall, what a lovely thought. A big thanks to No Man's Art!

The prints are now also for sale online, here. More details about the prints can be found here.

Next up No Man's Art @ Paris!

SOLAR '11

2011-08-15T04:37:00.000-07:00

Solar was once again a whole lot of fun. It's a festival that's held every year in the south of the Netherlands, Roermond. The festival takes 2 days, I was there one day too early to watch other people work hard to get the last things done for the weekend.

On the festival itself I did not take many pictures. Drinking and an expensive 5D is never a good idea... I did use my Yashica for snapshots, but I lost it on the last evening. Dammit. There goes my Terry Richardson swag.

Here are a few pictures that I did take. This was on the saturday morning, when my nephew's performed with their band Jungle By Night (they make amazing afrobeat, check it out).

On sunday night we had a little private camping party. Singing and dancing in a little circle can never go wrong.

RUIGOORD

2011-08-02T03:04:00.000-07:00

Earlier this year I spend some time at Ruigoord. Here is the serie that came out of it (click). I shot alot of material that I end up not using for the serie. I do want to share them however, so here you go. A little introduction to the people and the village of Ruigoord.

CATHARINAGERRITSEN.COM

2011-07-02T14:14:00.000-07:00

STOP THE PRESSES!!! I, Catharina Gerritsen, FINALLY have my own REAL website!! It took me over a year to finally do it, but I did (all by myself with the support of Cargo). The website is meant to be a good overview of my work, as a portfolio, while this blog will exist next to it to keep everyone updated with all that me and my camera do on a weekly basis.

Also there is a new series on my website, so off you go!

www.catharinagerritsen.com

HI

2011-07-02T14:01:00.000-07:00

at Beelddragers doet SCENE. I've been so bad with updates that I even forgot to tell you about this one. But now it's gone already for a while so yeah. This is what it looked like.

ZEE LADIES IN FUR

2011-07-02T14:00:00.000-07:00

3HOOG GOES JAMAICAN

2011-07-02T13:57:00.000-07:00

Haha I found the poster of 3HOOG with the picture I shot for it next to a beautiful reggea poster. The colours match perfectly!

SUGAR FACTORY: ARTIST OF THE MONTH

2011-07-02T13:51:00.000-07:00

I had the honour to be the artist of the month (June) in the nightclub/theatre Sugar Factory in Amsterdam. I had the freedom to fill in one big wall, one sitting corner and the smoking room with my photography. Unfortunately I don't have any good pictures of the whole setting yet, but here is a little shitty teaser of the big wall. More soon.

Also they used my photo for the bi-monthly poster that they spread around the whole town in A0 size. I found them over-representing at the Leidseplein.. u see the top left one.. haha

THE ART OF FENCING

2011-07-02T13:37:00.000-07:00

For school I had to make a little serie about a sporter focusing on movement and emotion. I chose a fencer.

INDIAN SUMMER

2011-07-02T13:33:00.000-07:00

For BNN's online magazine I shot pictures at the one day festival Indian Summer. It was going to rain the whole day, but fortunately the Weather Gods were good-tempered and I could do my job without the use of plastic wrapping. Annie Hoogendoorn shot pictures of the artists backstage, I shot the cover, a day diary, a night diary and all the photos that are used in the background. On to the next festival!

Check the online magazine here.

MORE HASSELBLAD

2011-05-17T12:02:00.000-07:00

For a little school assignment, we had to make an Anton Corbijn inspired portrait of a fellow student. I present to you: Marte. More on the Flickr.

AJAX

2011-05-15T13:57:00.000-07:00

Today was a very special day for the people of Amsterdam. Our soccerclub, Ajax, won the Dutch soccer league title for the 30th time. The city celebrated. Here's a little documentation of a few hours at the museumplein.

LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY

2011-05-04T06:00:00.000-07:00

For Vice Magazine I took portraits of mister Lee "Scratch" Perry, an undeniable hero in the Dub & Reggae world. You can read the interview here (Dutch). It was a true pleasure to meet this fantastic man and take a little peak inside the stuff that goes on inside his head.

Lee makes all his accessory himself.

RUIGOORD

2011-04-11T04:12:00.000-07:00

I've been working on a project about Ruigoord that I just finished off with a little book. Not sure yet how to put everything online in the right form, so hold tight while I figure everything out.

10 POINTS IF YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS

2011-04-11T04:06:00.000-07:00

SHOE

2011-04-11T04:04:00.000-07:00

For a school assignment I had to take an interesting studio photo of a shoe. This is the result.

HASSELBLAD

2011-04-11T04:02:00.000-07:00

First time shooting with a hasselblad outside and first time developing the film myself. Such a different way of working, but I kinda like it.

BARBEROS DE HAVANA

2011-03-29T05:41:00.000-07:00

CUBA (RANDOM SELECTION PT 3)

2011-03-29T05:38:00.000-07:00

CUBA (RANDOM SELECTION PT 2)

2011-03-29T05:34:00.000-07:00

REST IN PIECES

2011-03-09T00:14:00.000-08:00

HE IS WATCHING

2011-03-08T14:45:00.001-08:00

CUBA (RANDOM SELECTION PT 1)

2011-03-08T14:39:00.000-08:00

HAVANA PRIMARY SCHOOL

2011-03-02T11:52:00.000-08:00

MY RAT AND ME

2011-02-12T01:23:00.001-08:00

LEFTOVERS OF 2010

2011-02-12T01:17:00.000-08:00

A random selection of pictures that get left behind in 2010. The year where people liked to lay down on the ground.

HAIRY, MY BEST FRIEND

2011-02-12T01:12:00.000-08:00

OUTTAKES

2011-01-17T08:03:00.000-08:00

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2011-01-10T13:50:00.000-08:00

A series about religion and rituals based on one of the 5 platonic solids, the Tetrahedron. The 5 platonic solids each stand for one element of the earth. The Tetrahedron stands for fire.

A LITTLE BOY, MAD AT THE WORLD

2010-12-22T03:22:00.000-08:00

CLOSE

2010-12-22T03:20:00.001-08:00

MAMMOET

2010-11-29T13:30:00.001-08:00

MOMENT OF SILENCE

2010-11-29T13:29:00.003-08:00

PARTYHATS

2010-11-29T13:29:00.001-08:00

VOGUEING

2010-11-29T13:28:00.000-08:00

DOOM

2010-11-29T13:26:00.000-08:00

ENTANGLED

2010-11-01T15:27:00.001-07:00

Mysteryland

2010-11-01T15:24:00.000-07:00

For BNN and GUP I visited a few festivals this summer to take pictures for the online mag they created for each festival. Last one of the summer was Mysteryland and it was so much fun! My picture made the cover and inside the magazine along some background pictures they also did a feature on me. I'm honoured, next to Annie Hoogendoorn and Elza Jo. Anyways, you can view it here. And now I will let the images speak for me.

UNDER THE TREE

2010-10-18T14:42:00.001-07:00

ATRIUM BY DAY

2010-10-18T14:41:00.000-07:00

We had to make a serie of 3 pictures of a very stylish, yet boring building in The Hague. I focused on the human vs form.

ANDROGYN

2010-10-18T14:39:00.000-07:00

HIPSHOTS

2010-10-18T14:35:00.000-07:00

I have been tortured at school having to make hipshots. A hipshot is when you sneak upon people and take a picture of them without looking through your finder. This results in alot of pictures of buildings, sky and the ground, but sometimes ur lucky enough to capture an interesting human emotion/move. Unfortunately I ended up with mostly pictures of the first kind. I suck at it. But luckily in the end I kinda learnt my way around it and even had some fun doing it. Here are my best tries haha.

EXPO TONIGHT

2010-10-14T23:04:00.000-07:00

I've been so busy with school I forgot to tell you guys about this one! It's an one night stand expo at the new place-to-be Onder Toronto. It's from 18.00 till 3.00 at the mauritskade 1 and I would love to see you there for a drink or 4 (5 maybe).

SAINT ROBS

2010-10-12T02:38:00.001-07:00

1st time with the Technical Camera

HERMAN PIET

2010-09-24T14:22:00.001-07:00

GRINDIN'

2010-09-24T14:21:00.000-07:00

3HOOG FLYERS SEPTEMBER

2010-09-24T14:06:00.000-07:00

This month's Elle featured an ad that I shot for 3HOOG! It was the first shoot we did. Looked like this remember. Nice to see it in a zine! Thanks MRKMLN..

Anyhew.. For September I shot another set of 5 3HOOG flyers, for the 3rd time now, and the theme was Sterke Verhalen aka Strong stories. The things you say that happened to you on vacation, but really didn't. I took the slightly dorky vacation snaps and Jochem Ruijgrok then photoshopped the craziness into them.

CHEMICAL LOVE

2010-09-17T14:27:00.000-07:00

EMPTINESS #2

2010-09-17T14:25:00.001-07:00

EMPTINESS

2010-09-17T14:24:00.000-07:00

As you might have read earlier, I just started my first year at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag! Course photography ofcourse. The picture above was for the assignment "emptiness". I will put some of the assignments I do on here. It's a very time consuming study, so there will be probably not alot of other stuff on my blog for the coming time.. but oh well :)

ARCO

2010-09-17T14:18:00.001-07:00

to be continued..

THE FESTIVAL AFTER

2010-09-06T03:39:00.000-07:00

SOLAR '10

2010-09-06T03:32:00.000-07:00

THE WOODS OF LOWLANDS

2010-08-29T13:54:00.000-07:00

for Lowlands.nl I shot 3 series during the festival. See these below.

OHGONONOGO VS THE OPPOSITES

2010-08-29T13:44:00.000-07:00

A DESERTED LOWLANDS

2010-08-29T13:14:00.000-07:00

3HOOG FLYERS AUGUST

2010-08-16T03:18:00.000-07:00

You might remember the pictures I took for 3HOOG's first flyers. They looked like this. For the month August the theme was "zakt door" and we created 4 typical afterparty scenes (except for the weird animalsuits haha).

ALOE BLACC FOR BLEND

2010-08-16T02:59:00.000-07:00

Portrait I shot for the Aug/Sep number of Blend. Also read the interview on Rassion me and Dieuwertje did with Aloe, here.

VAGEGASTEN STAGE @ SOLAR

2010-08-11T08:53:00.000-07:00

A NAMELESS ONE

2010-08-11T08:47:00.000-07:00

APPELSAP UNDER A TREE

2010-08-04T15:33:00.000-07:00

SHAPES

2010-08-02T03:24:00.001-07:00

EXPO EXPO EXPO!

2010-07-30T13:33:00.000-07:00

My work will be exposed in the Heimat Design Gallery in Dortmund, Germany. And if you don't like my work, don't worry becasue there is alot more to see. Like the works from 3 other photographers, 6 fashion designers, 8 graphic designers and 4 product designers. I say: if you live in Germany or happen to be nearby, go take a look! The opening is on the 4th of August and the expo will be there for 2 weeks. Now I'm curious to see if my "Regiere Dich Selbst" will be sold..

HEIMAT DESIGN GALLERY SITE

VLIELAND

2010-07-30T12:54:00.000-07:00

Vlieland is one of the 5 islands above the Netherlands. It's a tiny tiny island where there are no cars, just empty beaches, windy dunes and 1 street with houses. Perfect if you ask me. I was there for a couple of days with my lovely parents. Spend most of my time on a horse, but when I wasn't I took some shots. Mainly of my old man. One day I will publish a photobook about my dad. Working on it..

PARK

2010-07-22T13:50:00.001-07:00

LESS FEAR, MORE GUNS

2010-07-13T13:31:00.001-07:00

SENSATION WHITE

2010-07-13T12:43:00.000-07:00

GUP Magazine, BNN, me and a few fellow photographers headed out to Sensation White to create an online magazine on the spot.. It sure was an experience. House music, some quite fascinating people and not to forget a whole arena of white. Even I was dressed in white (as you can guess my Air Forces aren't white no more, but their whiteness was

worth the experience). Maybe you have to be Dutch to understand Sensation White and the crazyness/irony of it, but I hope these pictures will nevertheless be able to explain a bit of the madness.

JAAP

2010-07-11T06:09:00.000-07:00

ROMY

2010-06-28T11:49:00.000-07:00

.. is a very talented model whom in a year time will grace your favourite magazine's cover (if she hasn't already). And she's a good human being. Counts for something too right ;)

BLACK ON WHITE

2010-06-28T11:46:00.000-07:00

NUIT BLANCHE

2010-06-28T11:29:00.000-07:00

For the first time in Amsterdam there was a real Nuit Blanche. A night full of music, art and fun and several locations around the city. I was asked to document the night at 3 of these locations. NOTE: The images are resized alot, so the quality is not optimal..

BRAKKE GROND

TOLHUISTUIN

CENTRAAL STATION

WHAT HE SAID

2010-06-20T04:01:00.000-07:00

KLASSE&STIJL

2010-06-13T06:12:00.001-07:00

WE ARE ALL PART OF SOMETHING

2010-06-13T04:18:00.000-07:00

My past few weeks have been all about getting into the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in the Hague. And guess what, I got in! So from september on I will be a very serious Photography student haha. For the admission I had to do loads of things, one of them was shooting a b/w serie with the theme "My Club". I started thinking about clubs and that we are always in a club, whether you realize it or not. Wherever you are, the people who are there with you instantly become part of your club at that particular moment. So I went on a little search for clubs..

STEPHEN VASQUEZ FOR BLEND

2010-06-13T04:12:00.000-07:00

Portrait I shot of Stephen Vasquez (the man behind the documentary "Electro Wars") for the july issue of Blend.

CRACKBERRY

2010-05-28T06:03:00.001-07:00

DO IT YOURSELF FESTIVAL

2010-05-28T05:31:00.000-07:00

For Vice Magazine's festival guide I shot a serie of pictures on how to built your own festival. We had a fun day, half hung-over, half drunk.. The weather sucked, so the colours of the pictures are a bit mhoahhh, but oh well. See the mini serie in the mini festival guide, or online.

HOMEMADE

2010-05-22T05:18:00.000-07:00

For Fitzroy I shot some portraits/pressphoto's of the new Homemade consisting out of Beatriz, SirOj and Jeff Solo. Homemade is a project where every 3 editions of Bacardi Visita a band is set up. They will be performing at the next few Bacardi Visita parties and will also release an EP at the end of this all. I was the first one to capture them with the 3 of them together. Styling and concept by Dieuwertje Heuvelings.

A LITTLE BIT OF SOPHIE

2010-05-16T12:05:00.000-07:00

STEFAN GLERUM FOR BLEND

2010-05-16T07:30:00.000-07:00

KITS ZONDER BLOG

2010-05-10T07:52:00.000-07:00