Bert Teunissen was born in 1959 in Ruurlo, Netherlands. He went to Amsterdam in 1984 to work as a photographers' assistant and became an independent commercial photographer in 1987. Bert worked for all the major advertising agencies and magazines for about 10 years before he started to make his own personal series again.

In 1996, Bert began creating a series of photographs that were made in houses that still have the 'old and antique available daylight'. This is a series of photographs about a certain atmosphere that Bert knew from his childhood. The work is made in Holland, France, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain and Japan and will find its continuation around the world. Here Bert uses available daylight to photograph people in their kitchen, living room or bedroom. His photographs are a search for this specific quality of light and a way of living that has been around for centuries and that is disappearing from society fast, due to architectural changes but also because of new regulations in the EU and other parts of the world.

The light that is being used is the same that was used by the great Dutch masters like Vermeer and Pieter de Hoogh in their paintings. Bert's photographs have been related to the works of these painters ever since.