bodyNsoul Photography started out in 2006 as a sole effort by Patrick Krolis. In 2007 Fausto fraser frequently started assisting during shoots, becoming a partner in 2008, while by January 2009 Guillo Grant and Earvin Simons joined bodyNSoul Photography as partners.

bodyNsoul Photography aimes to be the best photography business in Suriname and to expand it's unique photography worldwide.

bodyNsoul Photography is now active in several fields of photography including but not limited to portraits, fashion, fine-art, events and party photography, both for personal, commercial and editorial assignments

5 Armandstraat
Paramaribo
SURINAME
Phone/Fax: +597 433810
E-mail: info[at]bodynsoulphotography.com

Read more about the partners below...

1. Patrick Krolis
2. Fausto Fraser
3. Earvin Simons
4. Guillo Grant

Patrick Patrick Krolis
My name is Patrick Krolis and I ’m based in Paramaribo, SURINAME. I started bodyNsoul Photography in 2006. I am available for different kinds of Photographic work including Portraits, Portfolio and Fine Art. My main interest areas are Fashion and Beauty. My work can be used for Advertising or Editorial publishing. Please view the Galleries for a selection of work. Also I have several Photoblogs, which are a record of my general interest and development in photography.

I am also able to digitally retouch or manipulate your photographs into stylish Modern Art. Photo restoration or retouching is also available. This means if you have a set of portfolio shots and you need to give them the magazine polished professional look, I can digitally re-process them.

Although I am based in Paramaribo, I can travel all around the Caribbean and the world.

So if you are interested in a private or commercial shoot? Want to publish my images? Want to purchase a Fine Art Print? Or need any of my services or just need some help please feel free to give me a call or send me an email, and I will help in any way I can.

History

I started photographing in Suriname in 1978. During my college years my arts teacher, accepted my proposal to photograph for class rather than drawing building perspectives.

After buildings came nature. Black and White analog photography. Having spend hours in the darkroom I know how to appreciate the advent of digital photography. I now exclusively shoot digital.

During my university years in the 80's in Brazil, I moved from nature and building subjects to capture poverty. Ultimately depressing this led to a long pause in my photographic activities.

In 2002 I started experimenting with digital photography and since 2005 I have entered a new phase and shoot beauty.
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Fausto Fraser
My name is Fausto Fraser and I consider myself a rookie amateur photographer (if that even exists).
I think it all started at a very young age for me. And when I mean young, you’ll get the picture when you see my baby pics. Besides the crazy posses, the moment I started to find out how to work knobs and buttons, the camera and what it produces is always been a fascinating experience for me.

When I got my first camera I did not even realize I started the journey that would take more than 15 years for me to discover that photography was an obsession. In a long period of not owning my own digital camera I never knew what hit me when I had that unexplainable urge to take pictures of everything. And I mean everything.
Even when I bought my first own digital cam I did not realize that my fingers and my mind if I might say so…… had a mind of their own…..and yeah..i have the collection to proof that.

In 2007 it hit me… it was this year that I found out I had a disease…..an incurable one. One that walks with me till I leave this earth. No doctor can cure it, science has not jet been able to find a cure and strangely I have made peace with the thought of having a incurable disease that will eat me from the inside till my last breath. For years I’ve been hearing about it but I’ve not been listing all this time. Listing to what my inner feelings were telling me. “Watch out…It will hit you…it will get to you like it got to millions of people. You like doing it and you will keep doing it till you get addicted and the consequences will be devastating.
I have been searching for a better definition of the meaning of this sickness and I found out that they even have a latin name for it…
Photograpilus Constantos alotus like maddmanius (the second variant).
If you’ve been diagnosed with the first one..that means you get paid in 6 figures….

Having access to a DSLR and getting the opportunity to take 400 or more pictures of parties organized by our event organizer number one, Lustig Events, my world changed.

The first party I had to shoot I had no idea how to handle a DSLR so I just shot in the automatic mode. Not knowing that the camera had a dioptric adjustment knob I didn’t even had a clear look what I was making pictures of. Ya’ll don’t even want to know how I held the camera. Yup…you’ve guessed it, like I was holding a compact camera. At that moment I also didn’t realize that there were certain rules a photographer uses to compose the shots. I just aimed and fired…hoping to get some good shots.

The second party was a different story although I still held the camera wrong hence the blurry and unsharp pictures. A lot of reading, a mini photoshoot in my room with two lamps to simulate the environment of a café an hour before heading to the party.
Lack of experience and the pressure to do it better then the first time I took the theoretical part of photography to serious if you ask me. Constantly changing my shutterspeed to get the correct exposure was making my finger numb. With more knowledge on how to handle the cam under these circumstances and the use of an external flashunit I’m sure to get better results.

Besides concentrating on how to make the perfect shots of party animals in the night I’ve been experimenting on Macro, landscapes, different sceneries and portraits. Not long ago I went trough my old collection of pictures I made the last 10 years and made a remarkable discovery. I like to take pictures of people caught in the act or moment when they don’t expect being shot at……You might ask yourself why is that remarkable? Well…everyday you are being reminded that life is like a journey and that on your way you will discover new things about yourself. Photography helps me discover more aspects of life, of the people around me and myself.

This hobby I would like to compare to two hobby’s of mine. When I started with music production, the way I listen to music changed immediately. With photography I have another view of everything around me. Even of people who are considered less pretty according to those dreaded standards some of us use. Or objects we normally don’t really pay attention to.
Some years ago I had a heavy addiction. It also involved shooting but not with a camera. 22 cal, 32 Cal and my favorite 9 mm pistols were the tools and the objects were paper targets (sometimes canes, bottles and everything else that was shootable…hihi). But for me to get better I wanted to be one with my weapon. I intensively studied the functions and how it would react in different situations. At one point I was able to disassemble my gun blindfolded. Shooting it blindfolded would be pretty stupid and dangerous although the thought did cross my mind….. Well..now with photography I can handle my camera without even looking at the controls. Very handy for lowlight situations…..

Will I ever go professional? I am considering it daily. So this wont be the last time the photography community will see and hear from me. It’s a passion that’s not easy to resist.
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Earvin Simons
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Guillo Grant
Guillo Grant started photography as an eighteen-year-old with the camera of his mother, bought just for fun. When he started working as a 19 year old at a Surinamese film company as a cameraman, his photography interest began to take more serious forms. And very soon it became obvious: "I will become a photographer, and a very good one too!

Since there is no photography school in Suriname he started gathering knowledge and information from around him. With the semi-pro camera he frequently spend long hours, what he himself describes as his study time. Internet, books and innumerable experiments were methods to master the profession very well. Older and more experienced photographers were frequently questioned about the how and why of a certain component of the profession.

He constantly improved his skills and the photography jobs started coming in. Not necessarily big jobs, but interesting small jobs with lot's of learning opportunities. In his inner circle of friends he became popular in terms of Advertisement, Wedding and Model photography. From them he also got the nickname "FastFingers", because he frequently clicked very fast, even before his subjects noticed, as a result of which he also rapidly got the nicest photograph.

Fastfingers got his first big job in model photography in 2008. Him was asked to photograph the contestants of Miss India Suriname. After weeks of preparations to master the technique in the studio, he was ready for the task. In two days of almost ten hours supported by a complete professional team of make-up artists and hairdressers he made the most beautiful Miss India Suriname. More proudly a 22 year old photographer could not be.

In 2009, he joined the photographers, Patrick Krolis, Fausto Fraser and Earvin Simons to form a strong photography team under the bodyNsoul Photography name. With them he wants the uplift photography and in particular models, event -, and advertisement photography in Suriname.

Photography is not Fastfingers' only love. He enjoys going out with friends, loves dancing and is a real people person. Once in a blue moon he would dive into the kitchen. Hunting and Cycling are also some of his interests when he finds enough time for them. He comes from a small family and is the senior of two brothers. He gladly admits being the funniest at home, but can also be very serious if needed. Due to his motivation and drive no job is impossible for him. If it is not possible oneway, he'll make it happen the other way. His favorite quote is: "The show must go on" and he rapidly adds laughing: "even if I myself must be the show!"
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