Jeroen Kroos finished his study at The Royal Academy of Art in 1995, and has since then been successful in different assets of photography, specializing in portrait photography.

His work can best be described as the colourful capture of a person’s character. His images never shy away from explicit colour use, or the use of strong lines and surrealistic sceneries. The substantial presence of the location’s characteristics also signify his work.

The power of his captures can be found in the maintaining of the character of the person he photographs. Although the portraits are distinctive in more

ways than one, it never leads to the reduction of the individual, it only empowers it. The location, the colours, the composition, the contrasts: he puts himself up to a challenge by using these resources to reinforce the person’s character in the photograph.

The people that are the subject of the photo’s are more and less famous people, from actors to comedians, from corporate portraits to characteristic but unknown faces.

In his autonomic work Jeroen focuses more on the expression of emotion and the spirit of our time via artistic nudity. This work differences from his portraits.

The colours are sometimes more subtle, and the photographs are less personal. Jeroen uses the female body to express thoughts and issues that go beyond the person in the picture.

Furthermore he takes colourful portraits and scenery pictures when he is travelling the world.

Besides these various assets, Jeroen has managed to use his 2 megapixel phone camera in an extraordinary way. The pictures taken by this camera, plus other unexpected works of his, can be found here.

Read Jeroen’s vision on photography in an intriguing interview that journalist Gabriël Dériga kept with him.