Since my children enjoyed "Where's Wally?" story books, I have been a fan of this very full and busy style of photography. Where repetition of shape or colour etc fill an image with so much detail, I could view the image a 100 times and continue to see details previously unseen.
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My first introduction on this course to such photographers and in my opinion probably the best is Andreas Gursky. However I really enjoyed Bakker's style and variance of styles within this set, enough to give individual comment.
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This is modern "urban" landscape photography based purely on symmetry within Amsterdam, a city I have visited many times and have never noticed so much wonderful architecture, is stunning a representative of the modern way we live our lives.
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Bakkers' work captures the constant conflict between curve and squares that exists in the world of the architect. Each image he produces parades just a part of a structure, almost a structure within a structure giving aesthetics and context. His photography does not require narrative or location explanation it has enough emphasis on repetition, shape and colours to create images as though taken directly from the mind of the architect. In the way a writer creates a book. The end and the beginning are required but the story lies mainly between the two. It is this "story" between beginning and end which is what I see when I view Bakkers work.
I also enjoy the fact Bakker is photographing a modern world in a modern style. Adding to the art of photography, not with technology but with a wonderful eye to recreate the heart of what is being created in our cities. Landscape photography is as much a record of the world as taken by the photographer of the time as it is art. Bakker ticks those boxes, even though is style may not be totally unique is images certainly enjoyable to view and contemplate.