Louis Sauter

Louis Sauter (1952) is a biologist and enthusiastic part-time photographer. 25 years ago he started photography as an art form. He taught himself the noble art of photography by attending photography workshops with some renowned photographers. He combines landscape photography with model photography. He likes to use mysticism and mystery in his photography. This can be seen in his project "Il quatro elementi", in which he tried to include the four elements as aspect determining factors in his photos of nude models in landscape in this case. He soon realized that black and white photography is more powerful than color photography, because in black and white photography you can more clearly depict the essence of the content of the photo. He consciously uses artistic nude or rather figure photography to abstract the image. Everything revolves around content, form, composition and context. His technical equipment consists of a Canon eos 5ds-r and a R5 camera and 3 lenses: 28-70mm, 70-200mm and 100mm. He has exhibited a number of images from his project "I quatro elementi" in various places in the Netherlands and abroad. His knowledge of outdoor locations in the Netherlands is good thanks to his many years of walking along the roads of the Lord in the Netherlands. This led to the new project "Mother Nature's Daughters", in which he attempted to place a vulnerable but strong woman in carefully selected outdoor locations. He uses a red filter effect with the help of Adobe Photoshop to darken the skies and in particular to bring out the clouds more clearly. He received two awards for this project (A 'golden award - Como It and Pollux award - Barcelona Sp). It delivered him a large number of publications too.

 Favorite locations where Sauter photographs are beaches and dune areas. They are characteristic of nature and the environment in the Netherlands. He also likes to work in spring forests, especially those with an exuberant soil vegetation that provides a rewarding backdrop for his photography. An environment that he certainly has lost his heart to are the mud flats and salt marshes in the coastal areas of the Netherlands.

Sauter exposed several times in the Netherlands (Ulft - Huntenkunst, Amsterdam - Old Gas Works and Fashion Hotel, Haamstede, Renesse, Eindhoven - Klokgebouw), Germany (Bremen and Hamburg), Italy (Como and Venice) and Spain (Barcelona).

He publishes his art work in several magazins and catalogues.