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Sweet Still Lifes Take Us on a Journey to the Seashore
Over the course of their two decades of collaboration, Amsterdam-based photographer Mirjam Bleeker and stylist Frank Visser have invented their own language, a finely tuned visual vocabulary that allows them to work almost in silence, with each understanding the artistic impulses of the other. For this reason, says Bleeker, the dynamic duo was able to create a series of vibrant, evocative still lifes using only their joint instincts and hardly any words.
The sun-bleached seashells, succulent berries, and dried and fresh flora that compose these arrangements were collected over the course of their travels together to beachside villas or gathered as part of Visser’s extensive collection of curiosities. For the pair of them—Visser placing the objects and Bleeker framing them—the shoot was relatively spontaneous, embarked on as a way of returning to the playfulness and experimentation that drives all artistic endeavors. For Bleeker, the project didn’t feel like work so much as an adventure, a fruitful and fulfilling process that once completed, told a story, a tale of traveling to distant lands, of biting into fresh-picked fruit, and of feeling the sand between your toes.
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