Mysterious portraits by Henri Senders

Autumn inspiration. Mysterious portraits by Henri Senders, Dutch photographer

Mysterious portraits by Henri Senders

Born on December 25, 1958 in Papendrecht, the Netherlands, Henri Senders is a Dutch self taught photographer. According to Senders, he first took camera in 2006 and started taking photos not asking himself questions about the technical aspects of photography. “I just learned making photos by doing shoots, looking at the screen of my camera and making mistakes”. Thus, the innovative photographer created his own style. He achieved the unique style through improvisation and intuition, and using only natural light. As a rule, Henri Senders chooses a model and a location, depending on the weather and mood of the day. Also, he chooses his models by intuition.

A girl’s portrait. Mysterious portraits by Dutch photographer Henri Senders

The Dutch photographer explains, “Of course I talk with a model about the styles we’re going to do (portraits, sensual, artistic, nudes …), but that’s all. I seldom have a picture in my head before, just an idea of an atmosphere. And more than once I make totally different photos as what was the idea before. Than I see something that’s beautiful to me and say “Look”, and we start”.

Beautiful female portrait. Work by Dutch photographer Henri Senders

My models I choose by intuition. There must be something in their eyes or something in what they wrote down that intrigues me. I’m not looking for perfect bodies and perfect faces.