Works
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Kingdom 12, 2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Kingdom 12, 2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    65 3/8 x 43 3/4 in
    166 x 111 cm
    Edition of 8
    Series: Kingdom
    Krisjan Rossouw, Kingdom 12, 2019
    $ 3,982.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Kingdom 16, 2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Kingdom 16, 2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    65 3/8 x 43 3/4 in
    166 x 111 cm
    Edition of 8
    Series: Kingdom
    Krisjan Rossouw, Kingdom 16, 2019
    $ 3,982.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Kingdom 2, 2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Kingdom 2, 2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    43 1/4 x 65 3/8 in
    111 x 166 cm
    Edition of 8
    Series: Kingdom
    Krisjan Rossouw, Kingdom 2, 2019
    $ 3,982.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Kingdom 5, 2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Kingdom 5, 2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    65 3/8 x 43 3/4 in
    166 x 111 cm
    Edition of 8
    Series: Kingdom
    Krisjan Rossouw, Kingdom 5, 2019
    $ 3,982.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Tropika 10, 2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Tropika 10, 2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    33 1/8 x 23 3/8 in
    84.1 x 59.4 cm
    Edition of 20
    Series: Tropika
    Krisjan Rossouw, Tropika 10, 2019
    $ 1,850.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Tropika 11, 2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Tropika 11, 2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    46 3/4 x 66 1/4 in
    118.9 x 168.1 cm
    Edition of 10
    Series: Tropika
    Krisjan Rossouw, Tropika 11, 2019
    $ 4,250.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Tropika 18, 2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Tropika 18, 2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    66 1/4 x 46 3/4 in
    168.1 x 118.9 cm
    Edition of 10
    Series: Tropika
    Krisjan Rossouw, Tropika 18, 2019
    $ 4,250.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Amadeus, 2014-2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Amadeus, 2014-2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    33 1/8 x 23 3/8 in
    84.1 x 59.4 cm
    Edition of 20
    Series: Culture Club
    Krisjan Rossouw, Amadeus, 2014-2019
    $ 2,200.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Blue Boy - Impressionist sky, 2014-2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Blue Boy - Impressionist sky, 2014-2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    33 1/8 x 23 3/8 in
    84.1 x 59.4 cm
    Edition of 20
    Series: Culture Club
    Krisjan Rossouw, Blue Boy - Impressionist sky, 2014-2019
    $ 2,200.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Purple olive , 2014-2019
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Purple olive , 2014-2019
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    33 1/8 x 23 3/8 in
    84.1 x 59.4 cm
    Edition of 20
    Series: Culture Club
    Krisjan Rossouw, Purple olive , 2014-2019
    $ 2,200.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Dark Paradise 1, 2013
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Dark Paradise 1, 2013
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    33 1/8 x 46 3/4 in
    84.1 x 118.9 cm
    Edition of 3
    Series: Dark Paradise
    Krisjan Rossouw, Dark Paradise 1, 2013
    Sold
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Dark Paradise 17, 2013
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Dark Paradise 17, 2013
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    23 3/8 x 16 1/2 in
    59.4 x 41.9 cm
    Edition of 10
    Series: Dark Paradise
    Krisjan Rossouw, Dark Paradise 17, 2013
    $ 2,100.00
  • Krisjan Rossouw, Dark Paradise 21, 2013
    Krisjan Rossouw
    Dark Paradise 21, 2013
    Photographic Print on Fuji crystal archival art paper
    23 3/8 x 16 1/2 in
    59.4 x 41.9 cm
    Edition of 10
    Series: Dark Paradise
    Krisjan Rossouw, Dark Paradise 21, 2013
    $ 2,100.00
Video
Biography

Rossouw was born in Cape Town and took up an apprenticeship with a large printing company after school. “Up until that point it was the closest I’ve been to being creative,” he says. A few years later he was cast as an extra in a TV commercial which introduced him to Cape Town's fashion, film and commercials industry. This led to a series of fashion and commercial industry-related jobs, first as a model driver and chaperone, and then as a model booker, which was when he made friends with the models he photographs today.


His photography career began when his mother bought him a camera. “It was a matter of trial and error. I had no photographic lighting or equipment other than the camera, so my style developed from having to use what lighting there was – bedside lamps, fluorescent tubes – and working out a way to layer their different qualities to be able to make something new and original,” he remembers.

 

He works with a Nikon D5000 and the basic lens that came with the camera; no tripod, no ‘photographic’ lighting. He explains, “It’s ironic that when I could finally afford professional studio lights, the images simply did not look the same to me. I haven’t used them since that first time.”

Blog