Henri Senders
In 2006, I took up photography out of the blue : without any training and therefore not feeling limited by technical aspects. Just by doing it, I found and created my own style. A style achieved by using nothing else than natural light and my eyes. Like with analogue photography, my editing is stripped to a bare minimum.
My photographs are described as sensual and erotic, using an alienating and sometimes even raw style. Whether they are portraits, nudes, landscapes or narrative images, I never have a set up plan for my shoots. All photos are the result of improvisation and intuition. I choose a model and a location and, depending on the weather, mood of the day, model-interaction and the settings, the image is born.
The people I work with are chosen by intuition, I am never looking for perfect bodies or perfect faces. It’s the look in someone’s eyes that intrigues me. This way I worked with lots of beautiful people from different countries.
The photos on this website have no titles since I only invented them afterwards and on demand of others. For a while I felt the need to make up titles with exhibitions and publications in books in mind, but it never felt right. Then I stopped altogether when a friend pointed out to me that by giving my photos a title, and even more by explaining how they were created, I was depriving viewers from the right to make their own interpretation of a picture.