VALENTINA VOS

VValentina Vos is an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based fashion and portrait photographer. 

Since her career start in 2012, where the Dutchwoman would exhibit her debut work for smaller audiences, Valentina would go on to work for more established companies as a service provider. These entities include de Volkskrant, Glamour and Hudson's Bay amongst others. Her work has also been included in more prestigious magazines outlets such as Vice. 

Barring out the later portraits of objects and still life, Vos' subjects have consistently been for the most part human, consisting in friends and acquaintances (in the beginning) later to be substituted by models, rappers and relevant figures in the urban scene (later on in her career).

The style with which the shots are taken also remained pretty coherent for the better part of the decade, where the aforementioned subjects are captured in a realistic and representative way, albeit with trademark lighting and saturation, which reminds on of the American apparel school of photography as the blueprint. 

Experimentation with light/dark contrasts also play an important role in gifting every frame with an analogue feel, that always oozes out of every single pixel. The augmented saturation serves the purpose of casting the subjects (or objects) in a dreamy and gloomy setting, which manages for instance to embolden the importance of the clothing that is advertised, when present. 

The choices in posing and/or general environmental placement also aims at displaying a certain amount of gloomy oddity, that makes every single photo at least eye-catching, if not outright gripping in its peculiarity. 

People or things captured are thrown into an alternative and fantastic world, while also remaining distinctly recognisable as everyday people or things. 

This ability to enthrall any viewer with her aesthetics has, up until now, led Valentina Vos to land important gigs in the Netherlands and beyond, and we for one think of this as an achievement attained with merit. Check her work out.