Photographer's Profile

Tjeerd Doosje

Studio Tjeerd, Netherlands

Tjeerd Doosje was born on april 8th 1966, Harderwijk, the Netherlands and is a selftaught (fine-art) portrait- and fashionphotographer and retoucher. After he graduated from highschool he studied mathematics and chemistry at the Hogeschool Utrecht to become a teacher. He's still a mathteacher at a highschool in Almere. In 2010 he discovered portrait photography by doing mini photo shoots during a course given by a make-up artist at his school. He received recognition and several international prizes for his merits, among them ArtTour International Magazine Top 60 Masters (New York, USA, 2022), the Prize Velázquez (Barcelona, Spain, 2019), finalist in The Global Art Awards (2018, 2020) and is published in several international magazines and books for contemporary art, among them “The First Berliner Art Book” and “Art Collector’s Choice Book – Middle East”. Beside that, his art has been shown in several exhibitions worldwide.