PORTRAITS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

2012


In 2012 I was assigned to take pictures for the International Film Festival Rotterdam  for the 'Daily Tiger', a free tabloid sized newspaper with information about the festival.

Since I wanted to make some portraits in the meantime I teamed up with a few members of the festival crew that pointed out actresses and directors for me. Whom I then asked if I could portray them. Here's the result. All portraits where made within a time frame of 10 minutes maximum. Most of them within a few minutes. There were low temperatures, some snow and there was extra lighting provided by the winter sun. 

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With: Maja Milos, Isidora Simijonovic,
Terence Nance, Elisa Sednaoui, Eugenia Cappizano, Vasily Sigarev, Matt McCormick, Aggeliki Papoulia, Babis Makridis and his son, Sabina Aghamaliyeva, Masahiro Kobayashi, Nanda Costa, Cláudio Assis, Valérie Massadian, Gao Zipeng, Jose Mojica Marins, Lee Kwang-Kuk, Hazel Orencio, Lav Diaz, Daniel Nettheim, Cetin Baskin,  Óskar Thór Axelsson, Garin Nugroho, Mohammad Rasoulof, Silvia Calderoni, Gustavo Jahn









Aggeliki Papoulia


Gao Zipeng


Óskar Thór Axelsson


Eugenia Cappizano


Vasily Sigarev


Hazel Orencio


Vasily Sigarev


Nanda Costa


Silvia Calderoni


Mohammad Rasoulof


Gao Zipeng


Elisa Sednaoui


Masahiro Kobayashi


Gustavo Jahn


Cetin Baskin


Sabina Aghamaliyeva


Nanda Costa


Aggeliki Papoulia


Maja Milos


Cláudio Assis


Elisa Sednaoui


Eugenia Cappizano


 Gustavo Jahn


Babis Makridis with his son

Elisa Sednaoui


Cetin Baskin


Elisa Sednaoui


Jose Mojica Marins


Lav Diaz


Terence Nance


Matt McCormick


Elisa Sednaoui


Lee Kwang-Kuk


Masahiro Kobayashi


Babis Makridis with his son


Sabina Aghamaliyeva


Nanda Costa


Valérie Massadian


Cláudio Assis


Garin Nugroho


Terence Nance


Valérie Massadian


Óskar Thór Axelsson


Hazel Orencio


Cláudio Assis


Cláudio Assis


Cetin Baskin


Elisa Sednaoui


Lav Diaz


Gustavo Jahn


Quote from the Blurb.com blog - Book of the Week - "what can you achieve in 10 minutes?"

"Rogier Maaskant’s book, “Portraits,” features a series of portraits from the 2012 International Film Festival in Rotterdam – all taken within a ten-minute window. He certainly had some good subject matter to work with; there’s a whole lot of character to be found in this group of directors and actors. But Maaskant manages to capture so much story in each of these portraits, that I’m blown away by how quickly he got these shots. If the secret to great portraits is capturing the essence of each person, Maaskant seems to have the magic formula tucked away in his camera."

Blurb.com used this book as a promo for their portfolio. It is for sale here