Signed, Jaffe Vink / Lee To Sang - Fotostudio - 1997

This is a rare copy in fine condition of Jaffe Vink and Lee To Sang's book Fotostudio published in 1997 by Stichting Uitgeverij Basalt in Amsterdam. This beautifully produced publication features the striking and theatrical work of To Sang, a Chinese-born photographer living and working in Amsterdam. Working in collaboration with his wife, To Sang take fascinating staged photographs from his studio featuring a cross-section of the local community.

Lee To Sang (Hong Kong 1939) moved to Paramaribo in 1964 where he opened his first photo studio. In 1979 he moved with his family to Amsterdam where he opened his second photo studio in the Albert Cuypstraat named To Sang Fotostudio. Apart from the local Dutch people, his clients included the many immigrants of that neighbourhood – Surinamesi, Pakistani, Chinese, Maroccan, Turkish and Kurdish. Willem van Zoetendaal who discovered his studio at the beginning of the nineties asked many students of the Rietveld Academy to have their ‘first’ studio experience as being a model. ‘I don’t usually ask clients what they do, so sometimes it doesn’t happen until later that they were famous. I ‘ve photographed some mayors of Amsterdam, Martin Parr and many other artists and photographers.’ Lee To Sang became known by the the book published by Basalt (1995) and various exhibitions. And in 1997 through Johan van der K euken’s documentairy film To Sang Fotostudio.

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