WHAT ONCE WAS

David van Dartel

Dutch photographer David van Dartel celebrates friendship and playfully explores man bodies in natural surroundings in his series What Once Was.

David van Dartel

David van Dartel (1995) is a Dutch photographer based in Rotterdam. Having grown up in a small village in the countryside, Van Dartel’s love of portraiture and landscape photography evolved naturally while he explored the fields and forests around him. His visual aesthetic is gentle yet atmospheric, with emotive photographs that depict the power of intimacy in our relationships.