Today’s Guest Post is from Roel van Noord, who has often contributed to the discussions on this site, but has otherwise been quietly modest about his own photography.

Well, that’s about to change.

Roel, in one of his projects, had the courage to head out on the street and ask total strangers to pose for him.  The result: a plethora of fascinating portraits.  Despite the diverse cast of characters captured in his images, there is one unifying element: they are all wearing hats.

I’ll let Roel explain how this came to be:

“Hi Peter,

I have been visiting your site almost everyday and I still love it. Thank you for putting in the effort of sharing your images and thoughts which are, at moments, very personal.

Has been a while since we connected… just started my second exhibition this year with a series of street portraits.  The theme is goed gemutst (“well hatted”), which in Dutch means something like “looking good” but also “feeling good” (well spirited).  Don’t know if there is a similar translation for that in English.

The series was shot in winter and shows people comfy dressed (hats/shawls) against the cold (a bit like ‘if you snooze you loose’, or as we say in Holland, “if you stay at home because of the weather you are always wrong”). You will see here that the weather was fabulous ;o) “

—Roel.

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Thank you very much Roel!

To see more of Roel‘s work, please see here.

—Peter.

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I am pleased to present four new images this year from a dear friend, and outstanding photographer, Luiz Paulo.

I must confess, I have an affinity for Luiz‘s photography because we share similar sensibilities when it comes to our subject matter:  Luiz photographs his daughter (family), and he captures the capricious and simultaneously important elements of daily existence (Life’s Little Moments).

On a technical note, this time Luiz treats us with complex explorations in composition and a rare (for him) infusion of colour.

Finally, I am very excited to announce that Luiz will be featured in an upcoming issue of Leica Fotographie International, where many of his images are already prominently displayed online .

Please help me, then, in welcoming him once again to this site.

—Peter.

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[If you would like to see more of Luiz‘s work, please visit previous posts on this site here, here, here, and here.]

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