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Crispijn van Sas is a photographer/documentary maker. He is exploring the edge of documentary style photography in the experimental context of filmmaking whithout nessicarily being a filmmaker himself but embracing the stillness and capability to capture and freeze one very specific moment in time... He works are inspired by photographers such as Walker Evans, Stephen Shore and Alec Soth and Ed van der Elsken, but is also by directors such as Wim Wenders and Antonioni, Jim Jarmusch and by cinematographers such as Robby Müller, who have been exploring the possibility of making films since the 1960's. It was mainly the blend between fiction and reality that was expressed in the style of cinematography, in which the camera that ispired Crispijn. Cinema was no longer aimed at a person on set but in created in an existing context and was exposed as much as possible with the already present light.

Primary location: Life United States