JUUL is a Dutch photographer with over thirty years’ experience. A refreshing feature of his approach to the medium is the quest for new approaches, whether it concerns startling model photography or the compilation of photomontages made of parts of photographs that are covered with leaves, voile cloth or other materials. Despite these veils he has always retained a strong bond with his subjects. His photomontages come from his heart, so that appealing works are created.

His torn images reflect different emotions which are more easily grasped in the context of the photomontage. In recent years his work has focused on images of parklands and castle gardens. Recently he has finished a project with "subjects thrown up in the sky". All his black and white fiber-based prints have transparent retouching dye based on albumen added which results in photographic images with an aura of the unreal.

Gastronomes who discriminate between eating and dining will confirm that high-quality ingredients, an excellent knowledge of the culinary art and an unremitting drive are prerequisites for the preparation of haute cuisine dishes. With photography those very same principles apply, a point which finds ready recognition among all creative photographers. A proportion of these people will be susceptible to his atmospheric colour images. The mutual identification with one anothers photographs then becomes a "feast of recognition".

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