Bart van Leeuwen ( Amsterdam, 1950 ) published his first pictures in Dutch underground magazine Hitweek in 1967, graduated from the School for Professional Photography in The Hague in 1969 and started to work as a freelance photographer in 1971. Inspired by film noir, Italian neorealism and photographers like Bourdin, Brassaï, Kertész and Lartigue, he developed a narrative, cinematographic style, linking fiction and reality.
He has won several awards ( ADCN i.a. ) and gave lectures on photography at academies in Amsterdam ( Rietveld ), Rotterdam ( WdKA ) and Bruxelles ( St.Lukas ).
Van Leeuwen lived in Amsterdam, New York and Paris.
Due to a neuromuscular disorder he retired in 2005 and now lives with his wife and son just outside of Amsterdam.
http://www.bartvanleeuwenphotography.com/
