July 2011
Sequences 2011
A new number of series with short sequences of 4 square photo's. More to follow...
February 2011
Val Thorens
During a short trip to Val Thorens, France I made a few pictures in the snow
April 2009 - Current
Short Stories
In this ongoing series I tell very short stories in one picture. All photo's are staged in the studio and afterwards manipulated in order to have the result I prefer to have.
February 2010 - May 2010
Perpetual Change
'Perpetual Change' was a project which took a lot of time. I wanted to make a complete book about life, dead, evolution and the end of mankind. And I think I succeeded for a great deal. This book was made as exam project for the photo academy.
A complete preview of the book can be seen on my website: www.peterkaldeway.nl, some preview pages are presented below
October 2009
little jokes
A number of short photo sequences in which I tried to make a sort of comic, starring myself ;-)
2009
Miscellaneous
A collection of pictures made throughout 2009, some were experiments for later series, some just stand on their own.
July 2009
gravity, space-time and black holes
Stephen Hawkings has written a famous book: 'The Universe', very interesting, but after three chapters I was completely lost, but nonetheless got some inspiration for these photo's.
June 2009
self deceiving masks
Everybody is wearing masks. Most people have different masks for different situations. These masks are so fused with our own personalities, that sometimes we don't even know ourselves. Only in dreams we can completely take of our masks.
May 2009
temp agency
One of the study assignments for the photo academy was to make photo's for a commercial campaign for a temp agency
May 2009
impervious
These photo's illustrate the phenomenon that people seems to be very open at first sight, but are difficult to reach when you come closer. The paradigm is that by being impervious you hurt yourself more than that it is of any benefit.
April 2009 - May 2009
meaning of life
For this series I took different quotes from philosophers or scientists regarding 'the meaning of life' and illustrated these quotes.
April 2009
1984
I found out that this series is slightly difficult to understand. People who have read George Orwell's book '1984' know that a dystopia is described in which everybody is observed by thousands of camera's. With this series I wanted to illustrate that nowadays this has come true: on every corner of the street you will find a camera, but moreover, everybody has put their personal information on the internet, so everybody is now watching everybody in their normal daily life...
March 2009 - April 2009
the value of money
One of the study assignments for the photo academy was to make three photo's to illustrate 'the value of money'
March 2009
End of the World
These pictures are made on place where the world is changed from beautiful nature into some kind of giant sandbox.
October 2008 - January 2009
CD covers
For two bands, the rock formation 'hoover' and the jazz quartet 'Jan Schöder Quartet' I designed CD covers. Both CD covers have made it to production. Below you can see the front cover. By clicking on the covers you can also see the back and inlay of the designs.
December 2008 - December 2009
Paraphilia
This series can be seen as a merge between the more erotic pictures and the series 'short stories'. The photos symbolizes the unspoken but common dreams and fantasies people might have regarding sex. As these fantasies are often judged as 'strange', 'unhealthy' or even 'immoral' I did not want to make the pictures to bright, but unsaturated and detached from reality
October 2008 - December 2008
confusing worlds
In this photo series I illustrated the complexity of the world we are living in.
August 2008
Colored corners
These photos' may be not that spectacular, but it is the first series in which I used computer generated backgrounds, a method I have expanded over the years
August 2008
one comic book page
This was my first step on the path of photographic comics. My idea was to make one page without any plot, it is more an exercise in composition and decoupage than anything else.
2008
Miscellaneous
A collection of pictures made throughout 2008, some were experiments for later series, some were made just for fun.
June 2008
Uithof by Night
Tip: if you want to make a series of photo with the combination of night an architecture, don't do this in June, you have to wait until midnight before it gets dark enough. These photo's are made at the Utrecht University 'the Uithof'.
May 2008 - December 2008
a little bit of fashion
Once I thought I should become a fashion photographer. These pictures below are the results of several studies assignments. In the end I concluded that illustrative photography is more my kind of job than fashion.
May 2008
triplets
The purpose of these series was to make a collection of three photo's which at first sight do not have anything to do with each other, but do play a role in the sequence they are presented
May 2008
4x5
The sequence below is made on a 4x5 camera and I wanted to see what could be achieved with tilt and shift in combination with portrait. I made eight photo's for the complete series, two photo's per adjustment.
April 2008 - June 2008
Bondage
This series has received a lot of attention, both positive and negative. I did not make this series to provoke, nor was the intention to make erotic photo's. I just wanted to make a series in which lines, shadows and lights played an interesting role. The main theme was composition. I could have chosen for executing that concept this with nice buildings but I chose for rope and flesh. Nonetheless most people only see a collection of naked bound women.
March 2008 - May 2008
Dreams
In this collection I have photographed dreams. I have tried to find or stage situations which I found in my own dream. These photo's have been published in a book.
December 2007 - Current
Artists
During the years I photographed several musicians and other artists.
December 2007
Blindfolded
In hindsight, this series might be important as this is one of my first series in which I used a clear concept for a 'longer period' and not for only one shoot. Also the process of making these photo's was at that time new for me, but I felt that it worked. Several of the idea's in these photo's I used later for my series 'short stories'.
November 2007
fallen angel
These photo's were made by using a pinhole. A very small hole was made in a camera cap which then functioned as a lens. Exposure time was really long (at least 30 seconds in full daylight).
September 2007
Film posters
This series was made pure for fun. It is obviously based on 50's film posters. Both making the pictures and designing the posters was really enjoyable. I think I should make such a series once more.
2007
Miscellaneous
A collection of pictures made throughout 2007 which do not belong to a series. Some even made it into my portfolio once.
July 2007
drawing yourself
An alternative version of 'endless drawing' below. In essence the same recursive sequence, but now executed with pencil like drawing in stead of comic book like drawing.
March 2007 - July 2007
pencil drawings
These drawings are completely made with use of the computer. I did not use any filters, but with smart use of photoshop brushes and a drawing tablet, you can make these kind of 'pencil drawings'.
February 2007 - August 2007
make your own fashion photo
Just print out the photo, cut out the pieces and make your perfect fashion photo ;-)
February 2007 - Current
rope or ribbon
This is an ongoing experiment: to make pictures of women wrapped with rope or ribbon in a interesting composition, but without a prominent erotic tone. I am still looking for the perfect recipe for this concept.
2006-2007
landscapes
In the beginning I was also keen on making photographs of landscapes and architecture
2006
painting reality
I did some experimental work by combining drawings an photo's. I did not investigate this further, although it is still on my list of concepts which might be really good to work out further
2006-2010
Erotica
During the years I made a number of photo's which can be regarded as 'erotic', however most of these pictures do have some deeper meaning and are not just photo's of nice looking naked women. Below I collected several of these images and clustered them by year.
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2006
Miscellaneous
Several pictures made in 2006 which might be what naive in a certain way, but does contain a few premature concepts.
2005-2011
drawings
In these years I was still more an illustrator than a photographer. I did some experiments in converting photo's to illustrations so that the result would be like a comic book drawing, but still recognizable. Standard filters in photoshop would not do the trick, so I ended up by performing a very labor intense procedure with the help of CorelDRAW. Sometimes I still use the technique used her for current work.
2005-2006
four seasons
'Autumn' was the first photo in which I used photo manipulation, this photo did gave me the idea to make a series of four pictures each representing a season. This project went very slow and when I looked today at the results, I saw that winter was still missing. Therefore I looked in my archive for a decent portrait and flowers and mixed them quickly together. I know that when I made 'autumn' it took me hours to get the result. When I made 'winter' today, this was done in just a few minutes.
December 2005
Endless Drawing
I think that the idea behind this picture is still rather good. The combination of photographic and drawing techniques is working well. Of course the photographic technique is slightly primitive, but overall the result is still acceptable
In the time I made this series, I still used an analogue 35 mm camera. I had to scan all the pictures to see which did fit best. I even did not used Adobe Photoshop in that time. All adjustments and drawing were done by using Corel applications. I still think that CorelDRAW is much better than Adobe illustrator, and it is really a shame that CorelDRAW is not available for MAC.
