Steven de Kok

Steven de Kok shows a strong fascination for mundane topics and human behavior. With his objective photographical approach De Kok turns ordinary topics into extraordinary work without losing the aspect of beauty and including a humorous aspect. With his work he demonstrates a great interests in social behavior and proofs his skill to create a genuinely interested dialogue with his subject and show us the bigger picture. De Kok shows us the importance of banality in contemporary photography. With his final graduation work Onderhoud is behoud/Maintenance is preservation, he offers us a multiple glance into the mundane act of people handeling the shower glass window-wiper. Through a no nonsense, objective approach De Kok emphasizes the absurdity of it without losing the eye of beauty and including a humorous aspect.