• Tim Verhallen | Interview

    Tim Verhallen | Interview

    1605 Collective invites you to deep dive into the interview with Tim Verhallen. Being a famous fashion photographer, Verhallen admits that his main inspiration are people. By creating powerful connections with his models, he creates masterpieces in a form of photographs that are both sensitive and dynamic.This fall, 1605 Collective also presents a unique creation of 1605 Publishers, the book...
  • RELEASE: Reveal by Tim Verhallen

    RELEASE: Reveal by Tim Verhallen

    1605 Collective presents the masterpiece from 1605 Publishers: Reveal by Tim Verhallen. The book reveals the moment when Tim Verhallen presses the shutter - le moment décisif of the photographer who transforms his models into muses. The book also has a limited edition that comes in a choice of 2 prints: Arise & Pivôt.
  • 1605 Collective

    1605 Collective

    Entrepreneurship is about being open to change, especially when rapid growth occurs. Seeing where opportunities lie and daring to make decisions that have impact. Today is a day of such a big decision for 1605 Publishers, which from now on will be known as ‘1605 Collective’. – Founder Bastiaan Woudt
  • Ryuji Tanaka | Portfolio

    Ryuji Tanaka | Portfolio

    Ryuji Tanaka is one the most famous Japanese artists who focused on a traditional painting style - nihonga.⁠ Nihonga is the creative process of mixing mineral pigments and applying them onto the canvas or Japanese washi paper with glue to act as a fixing agent. Usually, Japanese artists apply paint with a brush, however, Tanaka often used a feather which often resulted...
  • Deep Dive Into Pictorialism

    Deep Dive Into Pictorialism

    Pictorialism is the movement that thrived from about 1885 to 1915 and was still being promoted by some as late as the 1940s. It began in response to claims that a photograph was nothing more than a simple record of reality, and transformed into a movement to advance the status of all photography as a true art form.
  • Trends in Photography

    Trends in Photography

    1605 Publishers has created for you a list of current and upcoming photography trends so you get inspired by beautiful concepts and visions. The main trend of the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 is an unusual perspective, imperfect, yet natural, shots, vertical format and the domination of mobile photography.
  • Understanding of Sculpture

    Understanding of Sculpture

    Sculptors like Auguste Rodin, Constantin Brancusi, Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Rodin, Richard Serra and others... We invite you to dive deeper into the understanding of sculpture with 1605: from the classic sculptors out of the museums to contemporary artists who are changing the course of art history today.
  • Ver van Dam | Portfolio

    Ver van Dam | Portfolio

    Vera van Dam (b. 1989) is an Amsterdam-based photographer. Her work is a byproduct of her life experiences and operates in a space between dream and reality. Here, her emotions, thoughts, and memories come together in a poetic and graphical way. Her work resonates with soft and sensual esthetics and it's drawn to unique compositions.
  • 6 Most Influential Minimalist Artists

    6 Most Influential Minimalist Artists

    Minimalist art began as a post-World War Two movement in American visual arts during the 1960s and 1970s. Thought to be a direct response to the styles of Abstract Expressionism and Modernism, Minimalism embraced geometric forms, neutral surfaces, and industrial materials over loud and chaotic artworks. As Minimalism appeared to deny such vivid expression, the artworks that were made deliberately...
  • Sergi Comellas | Portfolio

    Sergi Comellas | Portfolio

    Sergi Comellas is a Barcelona-based interior designer who he came to this area by instinct. Always in search of a singular project where he can capture his personal vision, in 2005 he opened his own studio in society and since then, his work focuses primarily on the development of private residential projects and professional spaces.
  • Thirza Schaap | New Work

    Thirza Schaap | New Work

    Plastic Ocean by Thirza Schaap is an ongoing project dedicated to creating awareness about climate change and enforcing sustainable development. Schaap works with plastic waste she finds on the beach in Cape Town. The artist collects plastic bottles, packaging, threads, straws among other harmful plastic particles.
  • Lilian Bassman: Portfolio

    Lilian Bassman: Portfolio

    Lilian Bassman (1917-2012) was an American photographer and painter. Bassman's photography is notable for her unusual printing techniques and innovative graphic effects. She worked as an art-director at Harper's Bazaar in the late 40s and helped to establish photographers such as Richard Avedon and Robert Frank.
  • Summer Blues: exhibitions to visit

    Summer Blues: exhibitions to visit

    While still enjoying the season of gardens and open air events, don't forget about these inspiring exhibitions in culture capitals around the world. Rijksmuseum, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern and The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium have opened their doors for you to enjoy paintings, drawings and sculpture.
  • Henri Michaux | Portfolio

    Henri Michaux | Portfolio

    Henri Michaux (1899 – 1984) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is best known for his poetry and prose, especially his texts chronicling his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline which include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind.
  • Cliches in Photography

    Cliches in Photography

    The photo industry makes it hard to avoid clichés. The sunrises and sunsets, clouds, the emptiness of the landscapes, yellow cabs of New York, selfies in the mirror, you name it...! These sugary and so familiar to us images are everywhere. It makes it hard for some photographers to originate their ideas in the middle of the whirlpool of cliches...
  • How to photograph like Viviane Sassen

    How to photograph like Viviane Sassen

    Viviane Sassen (Dutch, born 1972) studied fashion design and photography before receiving an MFA from Ateliers Arnhem, the Netherlands. There are quite a few element that are typically Sassen's: bright colours, expressive shadows, intertwined bodies, shapes, personal approach to subject and ability to break cliches.
  • Designing the beauty: Interview with Janneke Schrey

    Designing the beauty: Interview with Janneke Schrey

    Janneke Schrey (b. 1986, Germany/Netherlands) is the heart of 1605 Publishers, its creative director. With a strong interest in fashion and a background in Design and Photography, she has always been fascinated by the art of any form. "The fondness for architecture and design runs in the family", she explains.
  • Summer Houses⁠

    Summer Houses⁠

    A summer house is a place where you leave all the troubles of the busy routine behind. It can provide extra living space with great views, of course, but it’s also ideal as a place to read, paint or enjoy your favourite movie. It might even be the home office you need when things get too hectic in the actual house.