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Pieter Henket (born January 21, 1979) is a Dutch photographer living and working in New York City.
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Life and career
Henket was born in Geldrop, Netherlands. He is the son of the Dutch architect Hubert-Jan Henket and the nephew of the Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen. After high school in the Netherlands, Henket moved to the States to take a documentary-film-making course at the New York Film Academy, followed by a three-month film course at the NYU film school. Shortly after, Henket got his start by interning for director Joel Schumacher.
In 1999, he worked on the set of the film Flawless, starring Robert Deniro and Philip Seymour Hoffman. He had a long-time collaboration with recording artist and producer Ryan Leslie. He has worked with celebrities such as Anjelica Huston, Mary-Kate Olsen, Sir Ben Kingsley, Kristen Stewart and Lady Gaga for whose debut album "The Fame" Henket shot. In 2010, the iconic image was presented at the American Woman exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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