Fifteen photographs spanning ten years of collaboration between Bastiaan Woudt and model Tinotenda Mushore will go on view at Studio Woudt in Alkmaar from October 30, 2026, to March 31, 2027. The exhibition, titled Tino 10 Year Show, traces how a single creative partnership evolved from a Facebook open call into a shared visual language built on the body, texture and sculptural form.

The show's earliest work, Tino Crown (2016), sets the terms of the relationship. The face stays hidden. Mushore's back and hair anchor the frame. Her identity remains recognizable anyway. The image asks a plain question: how much can a portrait reveal without showing a face?

The collaboration began after Mushore faced repeated rejections from modeling agencies. The agencies admired her photographs but rejected her because of her height. Woudt's open call on Facebook carried no requirements concerning height, ethnicity or appearance. That openness produced a first session. The session produced a decade of work.

How does the work get made?

Almost every image in the exhibition was created in the same studio in Alkmaar. The continuity of the space gave the pair room to experiment: gathering materials, building shapes, testing a composition, dismantling it until a balance emerged.

Woudt describes a studio filled with music, conversation and energy, even though the finished photographs convey stillness. Mushore participates actively in the process. She adapts her movements to an approach in which a slight shift of the shoulder or chin can change the entire composition. Their accumulated familiarity lets them work with precision while keeping spontaneity intact.

The takeaway: this is a negotiated image, not a directed one. One person stands before the camera, another behind it, and the photograph depends on the involvement of both.

What does the selection show?

The fifteen works reveal a transformation Woudt himself recognized when arranging them. The earliest images are dominated by skin, hair and grain. Objects then grow more prominent. In Cycle II (2020), the face becomes a silhouette between two white discs. In Fold (2022), the body almost disappears beneath a pleated structure. The most recent photographs return to gesture, fabric and a more visible bodily presence.

The arc is not linear decoration. It is a record of two people finding new possibilities inside the same encounter, session after session, in one room.

Why the faceless portrait matters

Tino Crown and its descendants sit inside a longer tradition of portraiture that withholds the face to test what identity is made of. Woudt and Mushore push that test through material: hair, fabric, discs, pleats. When the body vanishes under structure in Fold, the portrait still reads as Mushore.

The exhibition frames this evolution as the outcome of an exchange rather than a single author's vision. That framing is earned. Ten years of trust, built in one studio, produced images that conceal and reveal in equal measure.

The opening takes place on October 30, 2026, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., with advance registration required. Whether the pair continues past this milestone, the show itself argues that the collaboration still has room to move — the most recent works return to the body, suggesting the next decade may begin where the first one started.