Inez van Lamsweerde
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Inez van Lamsweerde (b. September 25, 1963 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch fashion photographer. She recently won second prize in portraits singles category of the World Press Photo contest with a portrait of Charlize Theron. The portrait was taken in collaboration with Vinoodh Matadin for New York Times Magazine.
Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin have been life partners as well as inseparable photographic collaborators since they met while studying at Amsterdam’s Art Academy in 1986 and are the only artist that maintained a career in the art as well in the fashion world on equally high levels. Their first art projects, Thankyou Thighmaster (1993) and Final Fantasy (1993), developed while van Lamsweerde undertook a residency at New York’s PS1 Contemporary Art Center, were two of the earliest gallery-based projects to convincingly use digital technology to confront the viewer with the implications of the technological era while visualizing an internal dialoque.
Van Lamsweerde and Matadin have been a leading creative force in fashion image making. They create innovative editorial for magazines including V, SelfService, French and Italian Vogue , W and Fantastic Man and advertising campaigns for Louis Vuitton, balenciaga, Helmut lang, Chloë, Miu Miu, Stella McCartney and Givenchy. Van Lamsweerde and Matadin have exhibited their art work in museums and galleries internationally, including at Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; White Cube, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Van Lamsweerde and Matadin have been awarded a World Press prize for portraiture in 2005, and the ICP Infinity Award for applied photography in 1998.
Clients include: Björk, Brad Pitt, Janet Jackson, Tom Cruise, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Madonna and longtime-clients Viktor & Rolf.
Inez was also the director of Björk's music video: Hidden Place (2001) and shot the covers of Volumen (1999), Volumen Plus (2002).
Acclaimed designer Olivier Theyskens admires her work. (New York Times Magazine August 6, 2006)
