Someone will always be inspired by culture, however to be honest my work is not REAL Dutch.
I don't do a lot of nudes and somehow that is really big over here (yes we do have morals
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With internet I love that you can be inspired all over the world, what I try to do is mix my influences and make it together in my own style.
Sometimes you will hear "yeah this is really much better than what you did before" and I look at the images and think "hummm, this is just the same but with a slightly different pose/background" and sometimes you think you make something totally new and people say "Yeah but it's the same as you did before".
Art is so hard to predict and that makes it fun I think, you never know what you gonna get (Forrest Gump)
I do strongly believe that a photographer should be able to be a chameleon and mix and match what the client wants, I've had clients that loved Helmut Newton and asked me to emulate that look, I gave them something in stark B&W and hard contrasts but with my own signature and they accepted and loved it, and sometimes they want over the top colors (more my style), in the end I always take the preference as base and work from there, I don't want to copy to be honest, it has to be personal.
