Various Work by Nienke Klunder (March 22, 2010) 
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Introduction by Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer
In many ways, the jobs of a photographer and a writer aren’t so terribly different. As editors of the website Sight Unseen, our role is to look at the world through a lens of our own making, gathering people’s stories. The photography that accompanies these written works on Sight Unseen could well stand on its own, but we’ve become accustomed to presenting images as source material to illustrate and interpret our stories. We seldom have the chance to put the imagery first. For our presentation on Bite! magazine this week, we seized the opportunity to do just that, reaching out to photographers with a keen narrative sense of their own. The series they present here are poignant visual essays with no need for translation. Many of the photographers we chose are documentarians, who peer into the lives of everyday people and record what they find there, the others are multidisciplinary artists with a gift for storytelling and creative composition.
Former editors at I.D. Magazine, the design magazine, writers Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov are the co-founders of Sight Unseen, a new journalistic and curatorial consultancy.
Weblink: sightunseen.com
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Our poll "A photo essay always needs a great written story" closed. 267 people voted, 28% agrees, 72% disagrees. 233 people answered our follow-up question "Are you a photographer?" 82% indicated they are, 18% said no. Initially, negative answers to question #1 were almost 100% as was the pecentage of photographers among respondants. Then, when the level of non-photographers started to rise, the percentage of people indicating good text is always essential started to rise too. This seems to indicate that non-photographers think that adding good text to your photo essays is essential. In my opinion: if you want non-photographers to dig your work, you know what to do...
The work presented here comprises selections from different series Nienke Klunder made over time.
She is known for her striking photographic portraits and thought provoking series and sequences.
Klunder often uses self-portraiture to explore themes of identity and transformation.
Her series are visual essays that are in turn comic, tragic, sexual and political.
Moving between the roles of photographer and subject, her work has the effect of a series of cinematic stills with each image containing a larger story.
There are recurring themes that highlight the female body, breasts are exaggerated and given prominence as beauty and burden, grotesque yet sexual.
Nienke Klunder (1975) lives and works in London, UK.
Click weblink nienkeklunder.com or browse our archives
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