Exactitudes
Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek captured the striking dress codes of various social groups in Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene. They call their series Exactitudes: a contraction of exact and attitude:
By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. The apparent contradiction between individuality and uniformity is, however, taken to such extremes in their arresting objective-looking photographic viewpoint and stylistic analysis that the artistic aspect clearly dominates the purely documentary element.
