In 1965 Dirk Buwalda and Bruce McLean met in Room K of St Martin's School of Art in London. They became friends and collaborated on many projects sine then. Buwalda as the photographer and McLean as the multidisciplined artist. Some of the fruits of this long-lasting partnership have become icons of British Art from the 1960s. Much to the surprise of Buwalda who was always reluctant to accept photography on gallery walls; was the photography art or the art photography.
Pieces & Poses is a unique document of friendship between an unorthodox artist and a passionate photographer.
Photographer Dirk Buwalda died, after a long and wasting disease, on February 2, 2009 at the age of 61. His third book 'Pieces & Poses - Dirk Buwalda Photographs Bruce McLean 1965-2008' was published shortly before his death, just in time for him to see it. In 2008 he published his major retrospective "Ver weg om de hoek".