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BART KUYKENS Photographer
Belgium-born Bart Kuykens successfully navigated both the art world and commercial photography since the outset of his career. Following the global success of his automotive art books ‘A Flat6 love affair’, he has attracted the attention of world-class actors, musicians, and media personalities who have become subjects of his grainy, visually-rich and powerful black and white portraits.
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ho is Magnus Walker to me and maybe a lot of other people in the car scene? I think he’s the guy who has given a ‘kind of permission’ to do whatever you want to do with your car. If you want to change things up a bit or put on a different colour bumper, this is all fine. So I did some modifications over time to my own car inspired by what he has done and I mailed him a couple of years ago about the colour of a car as I had to repaint mine, and he replied it was GT Silver - so I painted my car as well in GT Silver. He’s given inspiration to thousands of owners around the world and continues
to mix it up and does that on a daily basis with his different videos and photoshoots he produces every year. I went to LA for Vol.5 of my book series, A flat6 love affair, and it was during this trip I spent some time with Magnus at his place in DTLA. We spent some time together discussing his cars and we went for coffee at a little place on the corner of his street. I photographed Magnus up on his roof and around his whole place and you can see the results here as well as of course in Vol. 5 of my book. I hope that we are all able to do more travels in the next year and look forward to catching up with you all again through Instagram and my page right here in b500.
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