Eric Kellerman

I'm a Briton who has lived near Nijmegen in the Netherlands for a very long time. In 2008, I retired from academic life spend more time on photography. Specialising in the nude, I work almost entirely in the studio with a regular team of female collaborators, most of whom have a serious interest in movement (dance, acrobatics, yoga, martial arts). Sometimes, when nobody is available, I photograph vegetables and fruit out of desperation. I consider my work to be distant, abstract, melancholic, ‘unerotic’, despite its subject matter. I emphasise line, geometrical form, texture, implicit movement, and above all, chiaroscuro. I like to create ambiguity in my photos, so that the viewer is sometimes unsure what part of the body is being looked at. In this way, I attempt to free the female body of its conventional associations. I think I have been influenced by several painters, and admire the photographic work of Ruth Bernhard, Christian Coigny, Flor Garduño, Lynn Bianchi, Andreas Heumann, Sonja Rolton, and Emil Schildt, amongst many others.