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Jan van der Woning wanted to become a photographer when he made his first picture at the age of sixteen and became a professional at the age of 25 when he got his grade for photography from the Dutch "Fotovakschool". He also studied at Hans Goetze, now the Academy for Photography. Most of his work is commercial but in 1999 he started to make 396 degrees panoramic images and the work shifted more to editorial and interactive photography for websites, CD-Roms and DVDs. His photos are printed with the latest techniques and in the highest quality, mostly in large formats and are sold at artmarkets, galleries and museums. He is in private and the ING artcollection. Expositions have been in the Panorama Mesdag Museum in the Hague Netherlands, Artkite Museum in Detmold Germany, Photokina Cologne Germany, Macworld San Fransisco USA and artmarkets in Amsterdam (Thorbeckeplein), Bergen, Hoorn and Bunnik.
He speaks 3 languages fluently and 3 fairly well so communication during travel is not a problem. He travelled through many countries in Europe, North and Central Africa, Asia and the United States including Alaska. There he photographed the consequences of Climate change. Currently he is involved in an project called The Big Thaw. He also visited Middle and South America and Borneo, Indonesia for WWF, Greenpeace and Readers Digest to make panoramas of illegal logging. And he made an expedition to the Antarctic, together with artist and collegue Fred Ros as part of an art project.
The photos are often more then 360 degrees, so a repetion of the part that allready has been taken occurs. But changes that happened in the time that passed, result in a shift in time, a transformation of time and space. Left is behind, but so is the rigth. Where am I myself, a new reality is created.
The images give an "impossible" view of our world.

http://www.jan-van-der-woning.nl/

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Amsterdam/Nederland/2008