Artworks
PERPETUAL STILLNESS
2016
In this series Richard Westerhuis explores the boundaries between traditional portraiture and contemporary portrait photography. The portraits are made in the traditional Dutch tradition, but with an original contemporary twist. The light, colors and compositions that we see here before us bear a lot of resemblance to the paintings of Rembrandt and Vermeer. It is only a detail like a nose piercing that reveals that we are looking at a modern woman. In Perpetual Stillness Westerhuis investigates whether a portrait can retain the identity of the model, even over time. Can the identity of a portrait have eternal value?