Tag: Maarten Rots

  • One Week In A One Mile Radius: Some of the Things I Have Learned by Maarten Rots

    Words and Photos by Maarten Rots. Maarten: I thrive under restriction; I like it when things are closed off. By (temporarily) taking away many of the variables of everyday life I create room to focus and get a better understanding of what I do and why I do it. That’s why I have set up ‘Sitting’:…

  • Poetry and Photography: How Rainer Maria Rilke Is Relevant To Being A Photographer

    Poetry and Photography: How Rainer Maria Rilke Is Relevant To Being A Photographer

    “Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point…

  • The benefits of printing your work by Maarten Rots

    The benefits of printing your work by Maarten Rots

    (Words and photos unless otherwise stated is by Maarten Rots.  Maarten is an artist working with photography based out of Amsterdam. In his photographs you can see a sense of abstraction and surrealism found in everyday situations, captured by the camera. He loves printed photography and one of the ways he shares his work is through…

  • Creative Constraints are Freedom: Abstract Street Photography by Maarten Rots

    Creative Constraints are Freedom: Abstract Street Photography by Maarten Rots

    Restricting to open up. How less can be more when going out to shoot. I am strongly convinced that creating restrictions leads to more freedom and development when it comes to creativity. This may sound very counterintuitive but I have experiences to back up my claims. I just finished an intense week of photographing which…