Krems an der Donau, 2019
ENVIRONMENTAL ABSTRACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL ABSTRACTS MAARTEN ROTS interviewed by Janet Haines ARPS
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Maarten Rots is a young and interesting Dutch photographer who produces what he terms abstract environmental studies. Having heard him speak at the 2021 Art of Photography seminar we thought he would be of interest to DIGIT readers, so made contact.
aarten describes himself as an artist as whilst he currently focusses mainly on his photography he also crosses over to other art forms, having started out in film. Indeed it was a broken video camera that DIGIT Magazine 2021 Issue 4
pushed him into having to buy new equipment so he decided on a DSLR, thus facilitating still work which he quickly embraced. Talking to Maarten it quickly becomes apparent that this guy likes to keep exploring new ideas
and challenging himself to reach outside his comfort zone. An early project in Amsterdam was particularly innovative. Who fancies a seven day instant exhibition where you have blank walls on day one and you have to shoot 13
