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BEAUTY AnD THE BEAST | The neTherlAnds
www.thebeautyandthebeast.com
The Beauty and the Beast, an alias for photographers René Heitmüller studied photography at the Royal Academy of visual Arts in the Hague
(1960) and Felice Derkinderen (1968). Creating images together. Images and live and work in Amsterdam (the netherlands). After meeting each
that go back to the essence, the most important quality of a thing, a other in 1990 they started creating images together. Their method of
human being. To them, the essence is a moment where vulnerability melting mise-en-scène and magic of the moment together give their
meets beauty. A pact made in heaven with both feet on solid ground. images a statuesque quality that raise the portrayed persons out of
A spiritual journey throughout life, every life. And as fun is an important the ordinary, adding a clear vision on life to them. Combining classical
catalyst of positive energy, you find a touch of that too. Feeling what photographic and modern digital techniques their images are a product
you see and seeing what you feel. Both Heitmüller and Derkinderen of contemporary life but possess timeless aspects as well.
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