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Eric Kellerman is a Briton who has lived near Nijmegen in the Netherlands for just over half his life. When not taking photographs, he teaches linguistics at the local university. He works almost entirely in the studio and uses digital equipment from camera to print, although digital manipulation is limited to darkroom-like processes. He has a regular team of female collaborators, most of whom have a serious interest in movement (dance, drama therapy, athletics, martial arts). Some are muscular, some are graceful, some are able to take up positions that appear to deny the laws of physics.
Kellerman considers his work to be distant, abstract, melancholic, ‘anerotic’ despite its subject matter. He emphasises line, geometrical form, texture, implicit movement, and above all, chiaroscuro. He likes to create ambiguity in his photos, so that the viewer is sometimes unsure what part of the body is being looked at. In this way, he attempts to free the female body of its conventional associations.
He has been influenced by surrealism (Dali, Magritte, Delvaux’ nudes and railway stations) and Canadian painter Alex Colville, whose occluded bodies in essentially intimate scenes can create a surprising sense of alienation. This partial view, the ‘privileged peep’, fits in with Kellerman’s particular aesthetic very well.
EXHIBITIONS
Oct 2002: Odense, Denmark
June 2003: Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Sept/Oct 2003: 'Some body', Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, England
2006: 2 Nov-16 Dec, 'Portable Landscapes', Fotogalerie No. 5, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2007: 24 Feb-7 April, Group show, Fotogalerie No. 5, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
PUBLICATIONS
Magazines
2005: Black & White Annual (USA)
2005: Focus (USA)
2005: Art-Photo-Akt (Germany)
2006: Focus (Netherlands)
Books
2005: The Body (Feierabend)
2006: Extreme lighting conditions in digital photography (AVA)
2006: Composition (AVA Basics)
2006: Nudes (Rotovision)
2007: Lighting (AVA Basics)
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