Hendrik Kerstens
At first, the Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens’s portraits—shot over the course of nearly 25 years, from 1995 to today—look eerily familiar: A dignified and austere young woman, her face pale as the moon and her nose proudly aquiline, emerges in three-quarter profile from deep shadow, dressed like a ripe young burgher of the Dutch Golden Age. She looks here like Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, there like Petrus Christus’s Portrait of a Young Girl, at other times like Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban.
