Photographer's Profile

ERIC PIJNAKEN

France

Born 1942 in Rotterdam Eric Pijnaken is passionate in photography since he was 14 years old. Works freelance modern art and literature for big magazines like Elseviers Magazine and Accent. Has been editor of the Belgian literary magazine Yang, and publishes in several other literary magazines in Holland, Canada and South-Africa. Later on to earn money he becomes editor in chief of specialized weekly magazines, and after that he enters the second big daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad in the Netherlands as socio-economic editor and commentator. In 1993 he settles permanently in French Ardèche where he devotes himself fully to photography. Soon he becomes known as nature, street and still life photographer, and is invited for solo exhibitions and participating in collective exhibitions in France, Switzerland, Netherlands and Greece. He won many international awards, like several Silver Awards from TIFA Japan, New York Photography Awards, Muse Photography Awards, and a lot of awards from other reputed contest companies, also with his photos in black and white. He participates in the book « Interviews, a collectors art book  from Al-Tiba9 and « Photography 2021 In the Visual Culture » from Serradifalco Europe. In his every days life he is since 13 years member of the international collective « Une Photo par Jour » in Geneva, where the participants have the obligation to publish every day a picture taken the day itself. His inspiration is the œuvre of Italian art critic Germano Celant who created in 1967 his « Manifesto » against the dictatorship of the industry and the consumer society inviting the artist to go back to the basics and work with pure or waste materials. His « masters » in photography are Jane Evelyn Atwood, Paulo Nozolino, and Klavdij Sluban.