Rene Dissel

René Dissel photographer

As a child, Dissel photographed everything with a plastic Kodak camera, which began with a fascination for both nature and airplanes. During his busy life as a musician, he picked up the camera again and won first prize in landscape for National Geographic 2007 titled ‘catch a plane”captured while touring the u.s with the band Praful.
From then on the camera has been impossible to imagine without, influenced by art and photographers like Irving Penn and many others, he started working on his own creations.
In 2014 an impressive book came out with 50 portraits in black and white "meetings with Amersfoorters" with analog cameras in collaboration with journalist Herma Klein Kranenberg. From portraits to abstract minimalist work, his work became more and more colorful, but black and white stays his main output.
Technique arises from creativity, the camera is only a means to express a feeling and an atmosphere with an image, he reports in an interview. With his love for water, the sea, lakes and rivers, he created a series of fine art images over the last ten years "Seascapes," the images exude a sense of Zen, quiet flowing spaces. While making the series it became clearer that the surroundings he took phot...

higher professional education
conservatory of Amsterdam
masterclass portraits by Maarten Corbijn
masterclass by Rahi Rezvani
ENG camera
professional printmaking atelier Amsterdam

2007 1st price NG
2008 group art exhibition hotel stories in museum Coda Apeldoorn
2012 solo exhibition seascapes Eemhuis Amersfoort
2014 book 50 portraits in black and white ‘ontmoetingen met amersfoorters’
2014 solo exhibition Eemhuis ontmoetingen met amersfoorters
2015 group exhibition 033fotostad Sint Joriskerk
2016 solo exhibition St Agten kapel Amersfoort
2018 popup gallerie Sandvoort Amsterdam
2020 solo exhibition seascapes slot Zeist
2021 popup gallery Sandvoort Den Haag
2021 exhibition time to slow down Rietveld paviljoen
2022 1 photo at BBA gallery Berlin
2022 exhibition we are water Rietveld paviljoen organized together with my son audio/visual artist Victor Dissel
2023 Art Basel Novum Basel, group art exhibition Klima Kunst, waterbodies
2023 BBA finalist for solo exhibition at Berlin Kühlhaus november

several nominations at lensculture discoveries

some galleries;
Sandvoortgallery
online galleries;
Artwista Berlin
Tricera Tokyo
Saatchi art NY
Artid
Open for a gallery with a heart for art


Commisions;
Coverart and many portraits for different musicians and artists, writers and journalists for Murrow publisher Amsterdam