Photographer Kris Dewitte (°1967, Belgium) has built himself a solid reputation within the international film scene. For years he’s been spotted taking impressive photographs.
Dewitte’s work could already be admired at expositions in Ghent (Fnac - 1999), New York (Classics Gallery 1999), Brussels (De Bottelarij/KVS – 2001), Amsterdam (de Brakke Grond – 2001, de Melkweg Gallery - 2008) and Ostend (Fort Napoleon – 2001).
Since he has been officially selected for the 50th anniversary exhibition at the Cannes Film festival with a photo of Steve Buscemi holding his handcamera on the rooftop of the Carlton Hotel, he have had over 20 solo exhibitions all over and published 7 books under his name, mainly with cinema as a subject.
At the 2002 Photo Festival Knokke-Heist he was a guest of honour photographer, together with the Dutchman Erwin Olaf.
2004 was the year of the LUX exhibition at the Ghent Caermersklooster, a centre of art and culture. In 2005 Dewitte was selected at Breda Photo in the Netherlands.
In 2006 OUT OF THE SHADOW opened at the Apollo festival, Victoria West, South Africa. The same year he won prize for best cinema photographer for a photograph of a Mongolian actress from the film Khadak, the exhibition was shown at Casa del Cinema, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy.
Kris Dewitte has always been fascinated by cinema and photography, this combination makes a perfect marriage.
For years he has been doing portraits of people in film. And he has worked on over a 100 film productions as a stills photographer. He also publishes in editorials as Elle Magazine, Sight&Sound, Premiere magazine, Cinélive, Focus and many more.
He portrayed film icons as Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa as composers like Maurice Jarre, Ennio Morricone, directors of photography, producers, actors, editors and many more.
He prefers to work unprejudiced and open. What remains is the photo. He always wants to catch the moment. This moment makes the image even stronger.
STILL – project, which opened in at the Melkweg Gallery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands March, 2008, and was after shown in Belgium and Poland is a work in progress which includes photographs of Morgan Freeman, Maggie Cheung, Peter Jackson, Michael Moore, Vincent Cassel, Jim Sheridan, Charlotte Rampling, Eriq Ebouaney, Monica Belluci, David Cronenberg, Christopher Doyle, Bartabas, Amira Casar, Daruis Khondji, James Woods, Ryan Gosling, Oksana Akinshina, Anna Mouglalis, Tilda Swinton, Juliette Lewis, Viggo Mortensen, Adélaide Leroux, Cloe Sevigny, Alex Descas, Abolfazl Jalili, David Lynch, Kim Ki – duk, Lubna Azabal and Philippe Noiret.
http://www.myspace.com/factsofemotionsI do not pay models or anyone who poses for me if there is no commercial assignment.
