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The Beauty and the Beast, an alias for photographers René Heitmüller (1960) and Felice Derkinderen (1968). Creating
images together. Images that go back to the essence, the
most important quality of a thing, a human being. To them,
the essence is a moment where vulnerability meets beauty. A
pact made in heaven with both feet on solid ground. A
spiritual journey troughout life, every life. And as fun is
an important catalyst of positive energy, you find a touch
of that too. Feeling what you see and seeing what you feel.
Both Heitmüller and Derkinderen studied photography at the
Royal Academy of Visual Arts in the Hague and live and work
in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). After meeting eachother in
1990 they started creating images together. Their method of
melting mise-en-scène and magic of the moment together give
their images a statuesque quality that raise the portrayed
persons out of the ordinary, adding a clear vison on life to
them. Combining classical photographic and modern digital
techniques their images are a product of contemporary life
but possess timeless apects as well.
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