Willem de Roon (1971) completed his study at
the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 1997.
He became a photographer whose work has its
own identity and style. This style can easily
be recognized and is aesthetically balanced.
You can recognize the pictures of De Roon in
the way he uses colours and powerful
compositions. His 'stills' are so abstract
that it's hard to believe you are looking at
a photograph. Some particular portraits almost
look like a 'still' in which a person appears.
Not that these pictures will ever bore you,
on the contrary, there is always something
happening in these portraits, spontanity is
always important.

Apart from 'stills' and portraits De Roon also
makes travel-documentaries and is commissioned
to unexpected directions sometimes. Recently
he made a series of short movies for the VPRO
television-program 'Sportpaleis de Jong'.
Besides that he made a photobook for the Dutch
Parliament. Spectacular and unique was his
complete issue of the magazine 'Rails'
(dec 2000/jan 2001) for which he made a series
of ninety(!!) portraits of babies.