Artist: Tessa Posthuma de Boer

Hahnemühle German Etching Print 310 grams, size 30x20cm, edition of 15 (+ 1 AP)

Margaret Thatcher werd in opdracht van uitgeverij Meridiaan gemaakt door Tessa Posthuma de Boer met haar excellente  fotocollage techniek voor de cover van het boek ‘De moord  op Margaret Thatcher’ van Hilary Mantel.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the “Iron Lady“, a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.

Tessa Posthuma de Boer studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. After her final exams in 1993 she started working as a portrait photographer. Her portraits have appeared in many different newspapers and magazines, including De Volkskrant, Ajax Magazine, FD, National Geographic, VPRO Guide, Psychology Magazine, etc. A large number of advertising campaigns (Rabobank, Fiat, Postbank, Vodafone, PostNL to name a few). Tessa also often works for businesses, like Akzo Nobel, Staatsbosheer, VU Medical Center, Audi and KPN. And she is wellknown for her many author portraits on behalf of publishers.

Tessa’s autonomous work is regularly exhibited in the Netherlands and abroad. She teaches photography at the Buitenkunst Foundation.