Kees Rijken

The worlds of Kees Rijken

‘Kees Rijken, for years a successful art director, decided “later in life” in his own words to do what he really wanted to do, photograph. Rijken seems to have mastered everything. In all incompleteness: architecture, landscapes, street photography, sleek advertising-style portraits, animals rendered in what could be described as romantic wildness, the love between man and animal.

And what touches me most: travel photography reminiscent of writers like Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac and Jack London. Photography that draws you into the presumably fundamentally human urge to want to see and experience more, into other worlds…’