Claire Dekens Fotografie

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Drowning in Plastic

Drowning in Plastic Theme of this project is ‘Plastic Pollution’ and the effect on humankind. With these pictures I want to represent the oppressive feeling of humans surrounded by plastic. There is also a booklet about this project with some extra information about the theme. You can find this in my blog.

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Tribute to René Magritte

Everyone knows the work of René Magritte. These are mainly surrealist paintings, subjects that you can’t photograph like that. You often have to take several photos and then combine them with the help of Photoshop. And this in such a way that it is not visible. I was only satisfied with the result when the …

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Fashion & Real Life

Fashion emphasizes class awareness. It is a masquerade under social pressure. In fashion photography one promises the good life. The models wear expensive clothes and look successful, household tasks are not among the occupations of these women. A desire is called that can never be fulfilled.

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Diptych

Diptich In these diptychs, an object was placed in nature for the first photograph. An object that clearly does not belong there. In the second part, a still life was built up in the studio. A composition was created out of the object and an element from nature. But there’s also an element in the …

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Vanitas

Vanitas stands for emptiness, uselessness or worthlessness. It is a reference to the earthly goods and activities that they are transient and worthless. This impermanence is a theme that often occurred in funerary art in the 15th century. Later it is also used in still lifes to remind the viewers of the transience of life. …