Rafaël Philippen
documentary - photography
By Ruud Visschedijk director of the Nederlands Fotomuseum
Rafaël Philippen is a photographer who still amazes the world. His gaze is innocent, like that of the deer basking in the grass in one of his photos. They seem unaware of any harm. A bit naive perhaps, unashamedly romantic at times, but uninhibited. Who nowadays dares to come out so openly that he is looking for something as old-fashioned as the beautiful and the beautiful, without making things more beautiful than they are? Rafaël Philippen does this without any hesitation and that is why life in his world is 'delightful'.
