Herman Van Gestel
Illustrators
- Introduction
- Svetlana Borshchenko
- Kacper Bozek
- Arina Gheorghita
- Glushenko and others
- Slawka Gorna
- Nadya Grunina
- Rezo Kaishauri
- Gennady Kalinovsky
- Igor Kantorovitch
- Sergey Kaptilkin
- Andrey Karapetyan
- Leonid Kovtun
- Ivan Kulik
- Jean Daniel Lorieux
- Andrei Nabokov
- Pavel Orinyansky
- Viktor Vasilevich Prokofiev
- Nadya Rusheva
- Uwe Schramm
- Yevgeny Shtyrov
- Laura the Shawl
- Charlie Stone
- Herman Van Gestel
- Pavel Zablotski
- Vyacheslav Zhelvakov
Herman Van Gestel
After studying Aerospace Engineering the Dutchman Herman van Gestel started with photography as an autodidact. His talent was soon noticed: after eighteen months he was accepted at the Art Academy St. Joost in the city of Breda. Later he studied at the Acade-my of Fine Arts in The Hague.
After being trained as a make-up artist and stylist Herman was able to define his own vision and definition of fashion, beauty and he became a fashion photographer, with ac-tivities in Amsterdam, London and New York. He works for famous brands like L'Oréal, Vichy and AvantGarde.
As a social documentary photographers he shows his commitment to people and society. He creates the opportunity to visualise people in a penetrating way with relation to their environment. Rather than creating beautiful images, he examines and discoveres them.
In 2007 he made a series of fashion photos with Russian models in a Russian setting, and he inspired himself on Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
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