Carla van de Puttelaar (1967, Zaandam) lives and works in Amsterdam. In 1996, she graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In the same year she was awarded the Esther Kroon Prize, and in 2002 she won the Prix de Rome Basic Prize. In 2006 she was a nominee for Le Prix Découverte des Rencontres d’Arles. Her photographic work has gained worldwide recognition, and she has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries around the world. Her work has appeared in many publications including five monographs. She works for international acclaimed magazines and publishers such as the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and Random House. The cover that she did for the New York Times Magazine in 2015 was selected as one of their best photos of the year. Her work is present in many public and private collections around the world. In 2016 she created ‘The Rembrandt Series’ in collaboration with the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, which Museum also organized an exhibition of this series in the spring of 2016, alongside their exhibition on Rembrandt’s Nudes. In the same year Carla van de Puttelaar was asked by the Maria Austria Institute to reflect on the portraiture of the photographer Maria Austria, which resulted in a new series of portraits and double exhibition of Carla’s photos combined with works by Austria, in the Municipal Archive in Amsterdam. A new monograph of her photographic work, entitled Adornments appeared in October 2017, and in January 2018 Van de Puttelaar was a Jury member for the World Press Photo Contest. In the spring of 2017 Carla van de Puttelaar started her acclaimed portrait series entitled: Artfully Dressed, Women in the Art World.