- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Work Art, Photography at http://pddstudio.cjb.net
- Website pddstudio.blogspot.com/
- About Paul Donker Duyvis creates a Japanese atmosphere in his work, not only by using typically Japanese objects such as kimonos, fans and rice or Oriental-looking women. These are obviously Japanese, or rather Oriental, attributes, but still just properties of his work.These Japanese characteristics merge strongly with the ambiguity of his images. The Japanese have an unspoken agreement not to regard paradoxical matters as paradoxical. Contradictory elements are presented on a common level instead, camouflaging them with a certain vague ambiguity. To Westerners, ambiguity is opposite to clarity, but the Japanese perceive this vague ambiguity as a means of understanding the many laye
