About my work
My oldest works, showing a strong commitment to photography, date from 1976-1977. I wish I could say that I kept on photographing since then. Unfortunately there were some lapses, due the results of an accident at a very young age, which made it hard to go on the road with heavy equipment.
I diverted to translating books, writing a novel and countless short stories. I became an editor of several magazines. I still did some photography on the side, but to be perfectly strict, there is full decade – the 1980s – missing in my body of work. Still, it is an impressive collection of photographs.
Somebody advised me to list the many exhibits of my work over the years, but I decided not to. The list is long, but not very impressive. Maybe to some, but not for me.
At age 65 I had a large exhibit in Amsterdam at NDSM-fuse. It was meant to be the last exhibit, but I had two or three smaller exhibits after that.
All my recent works are published in two magazines Norden Magazine and Norden+ Magazine. I will add them to this shop for those who are interested in gender and drag, or leather, rubber & fetish.
Unlike my main site: hansvanderkamp.com, this site is mainly a web shop dedicated to prints and limited edition softcover books. For now, that is all. I may expand on that by publishing a hardcover book. Time will tell.
About me
Amsterdam based photographer Hans van der Kamp was born in Haarlem, Netherlands. At age 7 he claimed that he wanted to become a photographer. The origin of his motivation was that he contributed magic powers to the photographer who — in his child’s mind — was magically scraping off thin layers of every person he photographed to reproduce them on paper.
The only way to avoid all that voodoo was to stand behind the camera instead of in front of it.
After his 7th he would switch career options very often but at age sixteen he started to experiment with an Agfa Click and a dark room. Soon he was hooked to the medium. When he left home, he started working a daytime job in a photo lab and in the evenings he visited an art academy.
Van der Kamp’s main goal is to make portraits and many of the nudes in his works, often described as provocative, are portraits in his perception. Rarely one will find a photograph made by Van der Kamp where the face of the model is veiled, hidden or simply extracted from the composition.