First: Discover vente-privee.com 10th year anniversary distinctive film: "Desire" or rather how vente-privee.com inspires Erwin Olaf to create one of the most glamorous work.
Second, as part of The Lavazzers Calendar. To celebrate twenty years of its iconic calendars Italian coffee house Lavazza has invited 12 iconic photographers to shoot its 2012 offering - Annie Leibovitz, Miles Aldridge, David LaChapelle, Mark Seliger, Elliott Erwitt, Finlay MacKay, Ellen von Unwerth, Erwin Olaf, Thierry Le Gouès, Marino Parisotto, Eugenio Recuenco, and Albert Watson.
Erwin Olaf
Born in 1959 in Hilversum (the Netherlands), lives in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
His worldwide campaigns for Diesel Jeans and Heineken won him the coveted Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions Festival for Advertising. In 2010 Louis Vuitton commissioned Olaf for a portrait series in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. He also won numerous other international art and media prizes, such as Photographer of the Year in the International Colour Awards in 2006, and “Kunstbeeld” magazine's Artist of the Year of the Netherlands in 2007. In 2008 he received a Lucie Award from the United States of America for his achievements in photography. Recently he won the prestigious Dutch State price of the Arts, Johannes Vermeer Award 2011.
Recent monographs are 'Erwin Olaf', Aperture Foundation, New York, (2008). This autumn his new book named 'Own', from Lido Books, Amsterdam, (2011) will be published, providing a retrospective of his work.
