Artist Statement
The baseline of my photographic work is a poetical and melancholic confrontation with the classical Apollonian and Dionysian conflict. Autobiographical elements and individual experiences are starting points, but the final work should transcend the individual.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1978 – currently lives in Amsterdam.
EDUCATION
Photo Academy Amsterdam (2008-2011)
Master of Business Administration (MSc), Radboud University Nijmegen (2003-2006)
EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PUBLICATIONS
Book: object a
Q2'16
Photo book on the classical psychoanalysis
Foam Café Amsterdam
July 2013
Selection from Falling from a height.
Book: Falling from a height
June 2013
Photo book on an obsession. Designed by Sybren Kuiper, texts by Oscar van den Boogaard and Christoph Tannert. Book launch in a suite of the Conservatorium Hotel
DUST Magazine (IT)
January 2013
Short film "Kylian" for DUST Magazine, screened at Bologna Arte Fiera
ACHE Magazine (USA)
January 2013
Features with four pages in ACHE Magazine
MagPlus Magnify your World contest: honorable mention
June 2012
iPad publishing contest
“Honorable mention in this category goes to Martijn Berk Portfolio. An app that crosses boundaries of fashion, style and poetry while telling a story and makes great use of layering over video”
GUP New Dutch Photography talent
March 2012
Featured with 4 pages in this catalogue of upcoming (Dutch) photographers, selected by the creators of GUP Magazine.
Introdans Arnhem (NL)
September 19 – October 30 2011
Exposition in the old city center Arnhem (NL)
Publication in the Introdans 40th anniversary magazine
n9 Bigscreen project, New York (USA)
September 2010
Screening of M-A (short film)
SELECTION OF PAST PROJECTS
iPad portfolio
May 2012
Portfolio app designed for iPad
La voix (FR)
December 2011
Short film shot in Paris in cooperation with Hotel Des Grandes Hommes
BRB (Be Right Back) (USA)
June 2011
Short film shot in Los Angeles
Sjaak Hullekes autumn/winter’11 collection (FR)
January 2011
Backstage shoot during the presentation of the Dutch fashion designer Sjaak Hullekes autumn/winter collection at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris
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