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Jan van Schooten

Jan van Schooten — Anekdote Art
Glitter Glamour — Jan van Schooten
Artist — Peinture de Lumière · Quantum Photography

Jan van
Schooten

Seeing the reality just beyond reality.

Jan van Schooten never viewed photography merely as a reproduction of reality. Driven by a desire to push raw photography beyond the traditional freeze frame, he creates surreal and abstract images that capture a genuine moment in time while revealing its deeper essence and emotion.

His work invites the viewer to look beyond the surface — to engage their imagination and sense the hidden meaning within each photograph. He seeks the decisive moment that gently pulls attention away from everyday reality and transforms it into a dream, where beauty is discovered in the ordinary and the mundane.

Peinture de Lumière
Van Schooten calls his approach Peinture de Lumière — painting with light. Beyond technique, it embodies a deeper philosophy he terms Quantum Photography: the ability to see and feel an alternate reality that exists simultaneously with our own — one that lies just beyond normal perception, until close and attentive observation reveals it. His images don’t freeze a moment. They dissolve it into something truer.

Selected works

8 works · Price on request
Connexxion
2023
Connexxion
Two figures suspended between sky and ground — reflected, refracted, dissolved into blue. The connection between them holds even as everything around them blurs.
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Follow Your Art
2022
Follow Your Art
A lone figure walks a diagonal line between worlds. The acid greens and deep browns pull in opposite directions. Somewhere between here and elsewhere.
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Glitter Glamour
2023
Glitter Glamour
Two people in motion, the city dissolving around them into thermal light. Van Schooten finds the moment just before recognition — where a street becomes a painting.
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Street of Dreams
2022
Street of Dreams
A figure walks past a mural that has melted into its own reflection. Reality and representation collapse into one vivid, hallucinatory surface.
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Purple Rider
2023
Purple Rider
Speed rendered as colour. A cyclist dissolves into a sky that shouldn’t exist — pastel, infinite, humming. Motion as a form of freedom.
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Night Frequency
2023
Night Frequency
After midnight, the city emits its own light. Figures move through a frame of purple and black — present and absent at once. A frequency only the camera can hear.
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Three Souls
2024
Three Souls
Three figures walking, each in their own corona of light. The yellow-green haze behind them is not background — it is atmosphere, mood, the feeling of an afternoon already half-remembered.
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Golden Hour Drift
2024
Golden Hour Drift
Three figures moving through a city bathed in thermal gold. The ground reflects what the sky holds.
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