Marcel van der Vlugt

Masqué I




Masqué II




I Like...series. Coffee. 2001 and I Like...series. Licorice. 2002




A New Day series. MP 19 and MP 21. 2006




A New Day series. room 39. 2006


The works of Dutch photographer MARCEL VAN DER VLUGT explore the various aspects of beauty, such as beauty ideals, transitoriness and makability. The quest for beauty can be considered as the central theme of these works. These pictures, mostly staged and composed, find their inspiration in the visual language of various media, amongst which the fashion and advertising industry.

MARCEL VAN DER VLUGT has sucked in photography with his mother’s milk: his family lived above his parents’ photo studio in Naaldwijk in the Netherlands.

During his study at the School of Photography in the Hague he already shot editorials for Dutch magazines and in 1979 he became assistant in Düsseldorf and London. There he took up a lot of experience by working both on remote locations and in the studio. In the mean time he made autonomous work, which he exhibited in Eindhoven in 1981 for the first time. A year later he established himself as a photographer in Amsterdam.- by PIM MILO from www.witzenhausengallery.nl

+ I recommend you to read "Springtime in the Operating Room" for nyartsmagazine; MARCEL VAN DER VLUGT explains his project A New Day (the last two images).