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Interview with Louis Sauter |
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Editor Frank Scott (FS) from DesignPRWire has interviewed designer Louis Sauter (LS) for A’ Design Award and Competition. You can access the full profile of Louis Sauter by clicking here.
FS: Could you please tell us more about your art and design background? What made you become an artist/designer? Have you always wanted to be a designer?
LS: I am an enthusiastic part-time photographer. 25 years ago, I started photography as an art form. Landscape photography was my first love, later I combined landscape photography with model photography. So, I used to work in outside locations. I did not shy away to use mysticism and mystery in my photography. This soon resulted in a project "the four elements", in which I attempted to incorporate the four elements as an aspect determining factors in my photos of in this case nude models in landscape. In the first place I naturally used color photography, how else can you illustrate fire. I soon realized that black and white photography is more powerful than color photography, because you only photograph the essence in black and white photography concerning form, composition and content. That’s why I consciously use artistic nude or rather figure photography to abstract the image. My technical equipment consists of a canon eos 5ds-r camera and usually 2 lenses: 28-70mm and 100mm. Unfortunately, the project was limited to my website, although I have exhibited a number of images of it in various places in the Netherlands (2015, 2018 Huntenkunst Ulft NL, 2017 erotic art Miami USA, 2017 Galerie Sous-Terre Kudelstaart - Aalsmeer NL). Building on this project, I decided to choose the path of nude in nature in my black and white photography, trying to place a vulnerable, yet strong woman on carefully selected outdoor locations. My knowledge of outside locations in the Netherlands is great thanks to my many years of hike along the Lord's roads in the Netherlands. This led to the "Mother nature's daughters" project. Favorite locations are beaches, dune areas (at the seaside but also inland), the Netherlands is rich in such areas. They are characteristic of nature and the environment in the Netherlands. I also sought refuge in spring forests, especially those with an exuberant soil vegetation that gave me a rewarding background for my photography. A very special environment to which I have pledged my heart are the mud flats and salt marshes in the coastal areas of the Netherlands. I live in a small town in the southwest of the Netherlands where swallows and salt marshes are common along the Scheldt.
FS: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
LS: I work alone, I work from my house in Tholen, the Netherlands.
FS: What is "design" for you?
LS: Design is to me everything what makes a strong image. The image can be reflected in a three dimensional object or in objects and vice versa.
FS: What kinds of works do you like designing most?
LS: If you mean photographing with my design, then I answered this question in the first answer. My kind of photography is putting a strong but vulnerable woman in nature in all its forms.
FS: What is your most favorite design, could you please tell more about it?
LS: My most favorite design is the "Mother nature's daughters" project. Favorite locations are beaches, dune areas (at the seaside but also inland), the Netherlands is rich in such areas. They are characteristic of nature and the environment in the Netherlands. I love to work in spring forests too, especially those with an exuberant soil vegetation that gave me a rewarding background for my photography. A very special environment to which I have pledged my heart are the mud flats and salt marshes in the coastal areas of the Netherlands.
FS: What was the first thing you designed for a company?
LS: I create my photographs to expose them and eventually to sell them. So twice or three times a year I expose my work in art fairs. I am looking for galleries all the time to expose my work and get some advertisement.
FS: What is your favorite material / platform / technology?
LS: Photography
FS: When do you feel the most creative?
LS: I noticed that when there’s something serious happening in my life, I get new ideas and that I am suddenly make a leap in my development. Those moments are not always good in my life, but mostly they are very precious for my development.
FS: Which aspects of a design do you focus more during designing?
LS: If you mean in my photography, I think the use of composition and emotion are the most important.
FS: What kind of emotions do you feel when you design?
LS: If you mean photography again, then I have to say that I loose the feeling of time and space when I am photographing.
FS: What kind of emotions do you feel when your designs are realized?
LS: I am relieved but am tired and empty.
FS: What makes a design successful?
LS: If you mean photography again, then I think the emotion of an image is the most important!
FS: When judging a design as good or bad, which aspects do you consider first?
LS: Emotion
FS: From your point of view, what are the responsibilities of a designer for society and environment?
LS: Ha that’s a good question. A designer or an artist has a contribution to technology, he or she gives an attribute to the possibilities in technology, he or she gives an impulse to think about technical things. But I agree that the main importance of art is beauty or relieving thoughts and sometimes even awake people to make them aware of things.
FS: How do you think the "design field" is evolving? What is the future of design?
LS: It will be more and more distributed by internet and e-mail and e-boards.
FS: When was your last exhibition and where was it? And when do you want to hold your next exhibition?
LS: October in Barcelona and Amsterdam, two in a time. In November in Bremen (Germany)
FS: How long does it take to design an object from beginning to end?
LS: 2-3 years. Mostly it ends in an exposition and a book. So it costs some time.
FS: What is the most frequently asked question to you, as a designer?
LS: When I get my beautiful models from
FS: What was your most important job experience?
LS: That was when an organisation asked to fill in an exposition about the functionality of the organization in all its forms. It was very interesting, I learned a lot, I was able to use my creativity to make something very beautiful. People were enthusiast. I was too.
FS: Who are some of your clients?
LS: People who want to buy my art, but also amateur photographers who want to follow my workshops.
FS: What type of design work do you enjoy the most and why?
LS: Black and white photography. It is stronger than color, simply because The watcher is not distracted by color.
FS: What are your future plans? What is next for you?
LS: I am very busy with networking at this time, networking with other photographers, models and potential clients. That’s important to get more orders, so that I can earn my living with photography. I want to give more workshops abroad, Greece, Portugal, Corse.
FS: Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
LS: I work alone.
FS: Do you have any works-in-progress being designed that you would like to talk about?
LS: I am busy with a series of portraits of women with special characteristics in nature. Meaning is to make some remarkable portraits, portraits that matter.
FS: How can people contact you?
LS: Via e-mail Slik-art@zeelandnet.nl or instagram via slik_art
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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