Inez van Lamsweerde (born 25 September 1963) and Vinoodh Matadin (born 29 September 1961) are a Dutch-American

fashion photographer Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographer taking a picture of a dressed model in a photographic studio ...

duo, whose work has been featured in fashion magazines and advertising campaigns. They also produce independent art work. Working together since 1986, the partnership has staged exhibitions and collaborative projects and participated in international group shows. Inez and Vinoodh live in New York with their son, Charles Star Matadin.

Lives and career

Lamsweerde and Matadin were born in

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Meeting

Inez and Vinoodh met at the Fashion Academy Vogue in their hometown,

, where they both initially studied

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—Vinoodh from 1981 to 1985 and Inez from 1983 to 1985. Inez took a master's degree in photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (1985–1990) and Vinoodh founded the Lawina clothing line with his classmate Rick Bovendeert. A commission for Inez to photograph the 1986 Lawina collection led to Vinoodh beginning to work with her, first as a stylist and eventually in 1995 as co-author of the images they produce together. The Lawina label closed in 1990 when Inez graduated and the pair began practicing as artists.

Fashion photography

The duo have also shot campaigns for Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, GIADA and

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, as well as Louis Vuitton under creative director

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. In 2015, they shot the single cover for " Only One", a collaboration between

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and

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, along with directing the video for "

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", a song by Rihanna, featuring West and McCartney.

Collaborations

Since 1999 they work regularly with Icelandic polymath Björk working on several music videos and high profile magazine editorials. In February 2019, they released a jewelry collaboration with Mene, a brand co-founded by Pablo Picasso's granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso. They also released a line of jewelry with New York brand Ten Thousand Things.

Return to New York

Inez and Vinoodh returned to New York permanently in 1995. Their list of editorial contributions includes fashion titles ''Vogue'', ''Paris Vogue'', ''

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'', ''W'', ''Visionaire'', ''Vanity Fair'', '' Harper's Bazaar'', '' L'Uomo Vogue'', ''

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'', ''Vogue Nippon'' and ''Vogue China'' as well as style magazines ''Purple Fashion'', ''Interview'', ''V'', ''V Man'', ''Self Service'', ''Another'', ''Pop'', ''i-D'', ''Fantastic Man'', and ''

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''.

Film

The duo have shot supermodel Kate Moss while dancing to Michael Jackson's ''Billie Jean'' on film; they also directed

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's 2013 music video for "

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". They shot the single cover for "Applause" and shot single covers for other songs from Gaga's album ''

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''. They were featured in her

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and shot ''An Artpop Film''.

Retrospectives

In 2010, ''Pretty Much Everything: Photographs 1985–2010,'' a retrospective exhibition of 300 works from 25 years' work was staged at FOAM Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam. The show began its international tour in summer 2011 at the Bienal Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil.

Books

In 2011, Inez and Vinoodh's monograph, ''Pretty Much Everything'' was released. Designed in collaboration with M/M (Paris), it was published by

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in 2 volumes, each containing 333 pages and a pocket book size reader featuring essays and fiction by Michael Bracewell, Antony Hegarty, Penny Martin,

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, Bruce Sterling and Olivier Zahm, and with lyrics by Björk and

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