999 Angels :Street Portraits Photo Encyclopedia

Dirk Pieter is a visual storyteller whose work reflects urban life in cities around the world, including New York, Paris, London, and others. His creative exploration of angels has been an ongoing passion for over a decade. Working primarily in black and white, his 999 Angels project blends elements of photojournalism and documentary photography. While he isolates his subjects through post-editing when needed, his rough editions embrace imperfection —reflecting both the limits of independent publishing and the raw beauty of life itself. Every photograph is a portrait of a real person, or in Dirk Pieter’s words, a ‘true angel.’ Untethered to time, place, or environment, his angels belong anywhere— just as angels do