Naked Rotterdam
'A tribute to Greg Friedler'
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Master
In 2017, as part of my Master’s degree in Photography, I realized the project Naked Rotterdam. In addition, I made a photo book with 330 photos, naked and clothed, and stories from participants. That book is my homage to the American artist Greg Friedler, who made Naked New York, Naked Los Angeles, Naked London and Naked Las Vegas.
‘Naked’ concept
The concept of the Naked series revolves around identity. After all, we have a public identity and a private identity. In the Naked books, the public, clothed, portrait of each person is shown alongside the private, unclothed, portrait. In addition, the viewer reads the profession and age of that person.
Prize Won
165 Rotterdammers participated in the photo project and I won the RET Leuk Onderweg Award for Art and Culture. Because the project made such a big impression on me, I decided to make Naked The Hague in 2022. Naked The Hague is all about our body image: ‘Vulnerable nakedness against perfection’.
Greg Friedler (1970 – 2015)
Greg Friedler was an internationally renowned visual artist and a prolific photographic artist.
He was born in New Orleans in 1970 and received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and French from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993. Greg received his Masters of Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in Photography and Media in 1996.
Documentaires
Greg has been the subject of two documentaries: Naked London, broadcast on the BBC in December 1999, and Stripped: Greg Friedler’s Naked Las Vegas, broadcast on Showtime from March 2010 to March 2012. He is also the creator of 6 monographs and his work has been included in 12 anthologies, including The World’s Top Photographers from the year 2000. His work has been exhibited in selected locations around the world.
Sadly, Greg Friedler took his own life in 2015.
Cover of Naked New York (1995)
