It was a gray day, sometime in January. I was walking through the dunes and saw this deer grazing quietly. Then it was patiently waiting. Just before the beautiful animal saw me, the sky luckily opened up a bit.
The compositions in the work of Gerard Oonk are highly stylized. The main subject of the photographs is immediately recognizable. "I don't want to distract the viewer and that requires making choices and leaving out a lot". The emphasis in the photographs is on beauty and optimism. Even our transience.. Read more…