Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Frank Oudeman

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004
More: www.frankoudeman.com
Frank Oudeman is a Dutch photographer known primarily for his architectural and interior images. Frank lives and works in Brooklyn but grew up in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and earned his M.F.A. in photography at Bard College’s highly regarded Graduate School of the Arts. His work is featured regularly in The New York Times, Interior Design, A+U, Frame, Abitare, Dwell, Surface, New York Magazine, Elle Décor, and Architectural Digest among numerous other publications. As a graduate art student, Frank was invited by Frame to photograph a series of architecturally-significant contemporary interiors. These editorial assignments led to his now successful career as an architectural and interiors photographer. Frank is known for his exquisitely calibrated photographs of interiors and exteriors, in which elements of light, texture, material, volume, dimension, and composition are crafted into a spectacular balance.

Studios

Nef

Frank Oudeman worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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