I came across the name of Dutch photojournalist Linelle Deunk a number of times in the past few months. Mainly because I noticed more and more of her work being used in one of the newspapers. Her work reminds me of Stephan Vanfleteren and Sally Mann in a way. Last week I attended a seminar of De Zilveren Camera ( The Silver Camera), a Dutch contest for photojournalists, where Linelle Deunk would be one of the guests to be interviewed. She is last year’s first prize winner in the Portrait Series category.
Linelle explained what’s typical for her way of working is the amount of times she allows herself to take the pictures. A session can take several hours. In her opinion, this explains the sensitivity with which the people are captured. This is characteristic for her work.
To my surprise I happened to read an article on her in the December issue of Dutch photomagazine Fotografie this weekend. So, it was a week with a high level of Linelle Deunk. It doesn’t matter to me, because I like her work very much. To give you an idea of her work, see some of her pictures below. But even better: visit her website at www.linelledeunk.nl.
