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For forty years, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin have redefined the boundaries of photography. This iconic duo, born in the Netherlands and hailed worldwide for their fearless fusion of art, fashion, and portraiture, have created a body of work that is as visually seductive as it is intellectually disruptive. Throughout, they have embraced innovation, but without letting technology take over their narrative.
Inez & Vinoodh continue to collaborate with leading fashion designers and luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chloé, and Chanel, while also producing striking covers and editorials for acclaimed publications, including Vogue, Rolling Stone, W Magazine, and Gentlewoman.
Acting as both mirror and magnifying glass, their photography not only draws from popular culture but also critiques it, uncovering a complex mingling of the familiar and the unsettling, the quotidian and the uncanny. Philosopher Simone Weil’s definition of truly seeing - “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity” - lies at the heart of Can Love Be a Photograph, spanning four decades of the couple’s life and work together.
In addition to over 150 photographs by Inez & Vinoodh, this book includes written contributions by Mathias Augustyniak, Guus Beumer, Francesco Bonami, Pamela Chen, Donatien Grau, Margriet Schavemaker, and Willemijn van der Zwaan, as well as a wide-ranging conversation with Tilda Swinton.
Publication accompanying the exhibition Can Love Be a Photograph – 40 Years of Inez & Vinoodh, at Kunstmuseum Den Haag from March 21 to September 6, 2026.
Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin are an acclaimed Dutch fashion photography duo who have been working together since 1986. Based in New York, they are widely recognized as pioneers in the field of digital manipulation within fashion photography, blending high-art conceptualism with commercial elegance to reshape the visual landscape of contemporary media.
The partnership began in Amsterdam, where van Lamsweerde studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Matadin studied fashion design. Their early collaborative breakthroughs in the early 1990s, such as the seminal For Emily series, immediately challenged industry standards. By utilizing early digital retouching software to seamlessly alter human forms and spaces, they created hyper-real, uncanny, and glossy images that subverted traditional boundaries of gender, beauty, and reality.
Over the past four decades, Inez and Vinoodh have become some of the most prolific and influential image-makers in the fashion and art worlds. They have shot iconic campaigns for premier luxury houses like Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Saint Laurent, while producing striking editorial work for publications including Vogue, W Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. Beyond fashion, they have directed acclaimed music videos and created memorable portraiture for cultural figures ranging from Björk and Lady Gaga to Cate Blanchett.
Their work spans beyond commercial assignments into fine art, characterized by an ongoing exploration of identity, surface, and the human form. Their large-format prints, collaborative multimedia projects, and extensive artist monographs—such as Pretty Much Everything—have been exhibited at major international institutions, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Hayward Gallery in London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. They are represented by top-tier galleries globally and continue to push the boundaries of how photography interprets culture and desire.
