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All Artworks by Arjan Spannenburg

14 artworks in total

Fine art color photograph titled 'The Quest' featuring a young man with white wings and arrows posing as Cupid in a dark forest.

THE QUEST

"A contemporary reimagining of the Cupid myth exploring the transition from adolescent innocence to the complex burden of adult identity."

2025•Classical dialogue
A winged man covers his eyes with his hands against a dark forest background, evoking a sense of internal reflection.

BLIND

"A visceral study of sensory deprivation and internal focus, 'Blind' captures the raw emotion of a modern winged protagonist."

2025•Classical dialogue
Fine art color photography by Arjan Spannenburg titled 'De last van het hart', showing a crouching Cupid with white wings covering his face in a dark forest, symbolizing the heavy emotional burden of love.

THE BURDEN OF THE HEART

"A painterly, conceptual color portrait depicting Cupid in a moment of overwhelmed introspection, exchanging his role as the hunter for one who bears the heavy burden of love."

2025•Classical dialogue
A young man with wings and a bow stands among dark leaves, embodying a vulnerable contemporary Cupid.

SEARCHING

"A contemporary reimagining of Cupid exploring male vulnerability and the quest for identity within a lush, natural landscape."

2025•Classical dialogue
Fine art portrait of a young male model dressed as Cupid holding arrows, standing in a dark forest setting, representing the piece 'The Question of the Heart'.

THE QUESTION OF THE HEART

"A contemporary fine art reinterpretation of Cupid exploring themes of adolescent vulnerability, romantic introspection, and mythological symbolism."

2025•Classical dialogue
A high-contrast monochrome photograph by Arjan Spannenburg titled "EMERGE." The composition focuses on two figures in a desolate sandy landscape. A man with his bare back to the camera finds sanctuary in the dark, layered robes of a second figure, whose head is wrapped in a traditional covering. The wind catches the fabric against a minimalist horizon.

EMERGE

"EMERGE captures the raw honesty of self-unveiling, where shadow meets the light of newfound confidence."

2023•Religious
A close embrace between a bare-chested man and a figure in dark traditional robes on a bright sandy beach.

SOLACE

"SOLACE offers a profound vision of shared burdens and relief, redefining the embrace as a sanctuary of common ground"

2023•Religious
A monochrome fine art photograph by Arjan Spannenburg titled ROOTED, featuring a bare-shouldered man and a figure in dark Middle Eastern robes embracing in a vast sand dune next to a weathered Scots pine with exposed roots.

ROOTED

"Arjan Spannenburg’s ROOTED explores the intersection of queer vulnerability and cultural displacement beneath the ancient Dutch Scots pine."

2023•Religious
Black and white conceptual fine art photograph 'SANCTIONED' by Arjan Spannenburg, featuring a family in a protective stance while several hands reach in from the edges to pull them apart, highlighting themes of resilience and social pressure.

SANCTIONED

"A defiant monument to rainbow families, challenging the viewer to choose between protection and destruction in an increasingly polarized world."

2023•Portraiture
AUSTERE explores the delicate tension between the individual and the invisible frameworks of Western ethics, capturing the haunting beauty of inherited cultural burdens through a minimalist lens.

AUSTERE

"A minimalist meditation on the fragility of identity, where the sacred meets the secular in a haunting dialogue of restraint and inherited ethics."

2022•Religious
Contemporary fine art photograph by Arjan Spannenburg titled IMPERISHABLE, featuring a side profile of a male subject carrying a large wooden cross against a black background in a Dutch Master chiaroscuro style.

IMPERISHABLE

"A bold reclamation of the 'universal burden' that transcends heritage, capturing the indestructible resilience of the human spirit in a single, timeless silhouette."

2022•Religious
A poetic black and white image by Arjan Spannenburg where sharp nature overlaps a blurred male figure, symbolizing the hidden struggles of queer identity.

ESTRANGED - YANNICK

"A sophisticated chiaroscuro study exploring queer alienation and the search for sanctuary through the metaphor of selective photographic focus."

2020•Portraiture
Fine art black and white portrait titled 'The Observer' by Arjan Spannenburg. A young man in a black turtleneck stares intently at the viewer with clasped hands. Winner of the FEP Awards 2019 Merit in Portraiture.

THE OBSERVER

"An award-winning black and white portrait exploring the psychological reciprocity of the male gaze and the tension between armor and vulnerability."

2019•Portraiture
Award-winning black and white photograph of a male dancer performing a leap over a black SUV on a busy New York City street.

JILLIS IN NEW YORK

"An award-winning black and white dance photograph capturing a moment of pure human triumph against the gritty backdrop of New York City's traffic."

2016•Test category
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