Rommert Boonstra Designed by Studio Holalola

Wunderkammer Wunderkammer international photo exhibition April 11th 2018 - May 26th 2018 Contents

Preface ...... 7

Catalogue ...... 1 3

About the Artists ...... 73

Next Exhibition ...... 81

Wunderkammer

Print: Pumbo.nl Coverphoto: Rommert Boonstra Designed by Studio Holalola

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Wunderkammer

The camera is the eye with which we behold the wonders in the world. In days goneby kings 8 9 collected the natural and man- made marvels of the world in special ‘wonderrooms’, nowadays we make a photo of them. But a camera doesn’t only capture reality, it shows our fantasies, dreams and fears just as well. Photography is a tool to catch wonders and keep them in a dark chamber - the Wun- derkammer. We invited photographic artists from over the world to show us their wonders. Every techni- que was welcome, as long as photography in the Nether- series of changing images, a the basis was a photographic lands. About the Wunderkam- projection of a film on another image. mer he says :”One of the most film called memory. Everything Guest curator for this exhibition remarkable proporties of our is connected to everything. No- is Rommert Boonstra, one of existence is its fluency. Reality thing is solid and true; things to the founding fathers of staged is just a seemingly endless hold on to are missing. Life can be so confusing that one starts I could find to this uncertainty looking for certainties. Some- is art. The art of wondering. I 10 times mankind finds a God, the started my career as a director 11 unmovable mover, sometimes of a theatre, but after a while I a brand new sportscar, some- decided to become the director times a mathematic law, which of my own imagination. I put a tries to be universal. But it box on the table, took a camera doesn’t matter how much you with a wide lens so the box search; in the end, death awaits would look like a big stage, and us all. hung a lamp above it. Then I Everybody steers for darkness. started building things in the The photograph is the ultimate box, putting things in it, and by symbol of this fluency. The baby eclectic combinations a new on the carpet who was to beco- world was born. Everything was me my father, has changed into possible and allowed. From that dust and ashes and even these moment on, my life has entered ashes are evolved in something a Wunderkammer’. else by now. The happy young < < Ferrante Imperato, Dell’Histo- bride in front of the town hall ria Naturale (Naples 1599) in Groningen didn’t know she > Presentation of the Pomeranian would die too young, years after Art Cabinet to Duke Philip II of Po- having become my mother. The merania by Anton Mozart, ca.1617, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin only - albeit temporary - answer CATALOGUE Arnoud Bakker Zeist - the netherlands

My muse, 15 years ago, in my attempt to capture her in as many ways as possible. Here 14 15 I ‘caught’ her in a series of 3D photographies, giving her ‘real’ volume and tactility when you use 3D glasses.

Arnoud Bakker Study of Jet, 2002 Block of 11 small frames with pin- ned photographic prints approx. 36 x 68 cm, with 11 frames of 11 x 17 cm.

Ed. 1 Rommert Boonstra Rotterdam - the netherlands

Guestcurator of the Wunder- Rommert Boonstra says about kammer exhibition Rommert his work:‘My photography deals Boonstra devoted his life to with things that you see out of 16 17 photography and poetry since the corner of your eye, things 1980. Before that time he was that disappear when you look a theatre director. Boonstra straight at them, things that pop is one of the founding fathers up out of the darkness and turn of Staged Photography in the out to be something else when Netherlands. He turned boxes you stare at them more closely, filled with objects in Wunder- things you imagine to lie under kammers which he photograp- your bed. hed, and nowadays he makes I try to find the pictures that his wonderworlds also on the operate beneath the surface, computer. In The Netherlands that are behind trees, that have millions of commuting people hidden themselves between the unconsciously know his work, rocks. My work deals with si- for a long time his artworks lence, with the passage of time, could be seen in 800 trains of it deals with dreams dreamed Rommert Boonstra the Dutch Railroads. with open eyes and invented Metropolis, 2011 Digital print, framed with passe- Boonstra also taught photo- memories. I am looking for the partout graphy at various academies in doors in my head, to see what 50 x 50 cm € 750,00 (excl. vat) The Netherlands and influenced is hidden behind them.’ Ed. 6 lots of Dutch photographers. Rommert gets his inspiration 18 19

during endless walks in the camera and start working. So- tery lies for Rommert. Fitting countryside, where he uses na- metimes, like all other artists he together memories, dreams ture as a the projection screen asks himself why. He feels that and thoughts to form a fragile for his thoughts. His work begs when the sun has blown up and and magnificent building that for quietness and Rommert mankind is an extinct species, exists only through the goodwill starts to blossom when he puts his work will be of no use at all. of light. Conjuring art out of a one foot in front of the other But at the moment he creates piece of apparatus that functi- for at least a hundred kilome- ist gives him a feeling of fulfill- ons as a magic wand as well ters. His thoughtstream finds ment from time to time: ‘I take as a machine. A form of beauty its way back into its natural photographs. Therefore I am’. is born. Perhaps it is true that bed. Only after that Rommert Fixing self-created dream beauty has burnt her face, as can stand calmly behind the worlds, that’s where the mys- a dutch poet suggested, states 20 21 Rommert, but this has only made her more graceful. ‘Beau- ty has to be mauldy, decayed, slightly dangerous. Otherwise all that is left is aesthetics. Except for the landscape the kitchen is one of the sacred spots of my soul. Nowhere the << Rommert Boonstra Theresia fleeting existence of life is emp- Digital print, framed hasized more. Nature changes € 750,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 6 from 9 into dead food and this food serves to keep me alive’. < Rommert Boonstra Out of the Future Digital print, framed 50 x 50 cm € 750,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 6

> Rommert Boonstra From the series ‘Apocalyps’ Collection Artist Information on request Peter Eleveld Olst - the netherlands

Peter Eleveld has been working prises and sometimes even in the professional photography disappointments. Peter says: 22 industry (Rijksmuseum Am- ”You only have one prepared 23 sterdam, Amazon.com, etc) for wet plate and one chance to many years. He worked with get it right. You have to think film as well as digital means. ahead, make the composition, When he arrived at a point light, time, aperture and it will where he could not feel all come together in one unique excitement and creativity any- magic moment. This magic more Eleveld searched for new moment happens sometimes < Peter Eleveld ways to find his drive again. and then a one-of-a kind photo Crustaceans, 2018 Giclée print, aluminium Peter was always attracted to develops in front of your eye! 50 x 50 cm the old big wooden cameras There is something very satis- € 495,00 (excl. vat) and historic photographic pro- fying working with the wet plate Ed. 10 cesses. So he decided to find process. It gives meaning to the > Glass, 2016 himself a 10”x10” wooden material I am using and I can Giclée print, aluminium 50 x 50 cm camera and start working with lose myself for days in creating € 495,00 (excl. vat) the wet plate collodion process. new images.” Ed. 10 With this he could go back to >> Hogweed, 2017 the very beginning of the photo- Giclée print, aluminium graphy. 50 x 50 cm € 495,00 (excl. vat) The wet plate process is an Ed. 10 exciting process and full of sur- 24 25 Geertje Geertsma Groningen - the netherlands

Geertje Geertsma’s answer to the differences. As far as the Descartes ‘I think, therefore I physical processes like hunger, am’ is ‘we experience, therefore sexuality, birth and nourishment 27 we become’. This is the result are concerned, people are not of her conviction that everything any different from animals. is connected and therefore Geertje would love to see man- completion or fulfillment are kind get of his pedestal for she illusive. We are part of the great worries al ot about the loss of transformational processes of the biodiversity. That is how the the symbiosis called Earth in an ‘humananimalcreatures’ came infinite universe. Geertjes wish into being. is that we will fully recognize our interconnection with earth and that we will grow a deep respect for all living organisms. This is her primary motive and her work reflects this.

Geertje Geertsma In her work Geertje Geertsma L, Photocollage, drawing tries to fade or even abolish the 30 x 40 cm, framed with museum dividing line between humans glass and animals. She rather emp- € 875,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 1 hazises the similarities than Esther Hemmer The Hague- the netherlands

As a photographer Esther Hemmer is searching for the interphase between visible and 28 21 non-visible things in life. Every- thing is covered by the physical. Can we see behind this physical world and discover a new dimension? In her photography Esther is showing her perception and feelings of this energy in landscape, nature and portraits.

Esther Hemmer Sparkle 40 x 60 cm Fine art print on Hahnemühle, framed with museumglass € 850,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 8 Yolenth van den Hoogen Amsterdam - the netherlands

Yolenth van den Hoogen is ment in which we are able to fascinated by structures and walk around, to touch. rythms in patterns in landscape It is a voyage into the unknown, 31 photography. She started to anything can happen.’ work on polaroid to capture the origin of perception and now travels to find parallel worlds: how do we perceive reality and how we try to create order and disorder in an imagi- nary mindscape. ‘As a child I was sensing, that there had to be a different perspective within the reality we perceive. Something I couldn’t put into words. I found out in a Yolenth van den Hoogen Scream later stage of my life that photo- Gicléeprint on Ilford galerie graphy and moving images gold fibre silk paper could give me the possibility to 70 x 45 cm € 950,00 (excl. vat) capture this. The spaces as we Ed. 3 + AP know them, to let them become new spaces, free from the refe- rences we learned. An environ- Pascale Hustings Zeist - the netherlands

Pascale Hustings’ Hide is part of the series My someone 32 else’s Diary. This series deals 25 with the search for an alter ego, toying around at the attic of your head.

‘... Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment....

(Louis-Ferdinand Céline)

Pascale Hustings Hide, from the series My someone else’s diary, 2016 Photo on dibond, matte laminated € 550,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 15 + AP Gosia Kalisciak Diepenveen - the netherlands

In her work Gosia Kalisciak sia hardly uses photoshop. She searches for the area where strives for simplicity and the desires play a main part. She power of ‘less is more’. 34 looks for a space where we can Her image consists of a main show our real emotion. motif, combined with an ad- In our society there is no time ditional image. In this way the to stand still and to breath up viewer is free to interpretate the again. Emotions that come work and give way to his own across are tucked away fast emotions. and we continue our path. The ‘here and now’ hardly exists and the future is of the only importance. Besides the interaction with daily life, which confronts us with pressure, rivalry and hashness, Gosia realizes life is getting more and more complicated and needs to be balanced. Gosia Kalisciak And therefor she creates this Between the days, 2018 void where one can be silent, Fine art print, framed with passepartout can let loose, can find comfort 58 x 39 cm and feel well. In her work Go- € 450,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 8 Michaela Kindle Freiburg - germany

German based photographer for often it is whimsical and Michaela Kindle was educated capricious. Kindle has shaken 36 as a photographer in the United of the melancholia of the dark 37 States, but never forgot her woods and the Grimm stories, where she came from. She has and replaced it with a happy- a passion for creating “New go-lucky style. Moments” - digital composites of moments captured through her lens. She makes a beautiful fusion of reality and imagination, of silence and action and of then and now. Michaela Kindle Head in the clouds, 2015 Michaelas work is inspired by Giclée print on aluminium the nostalgia of traditions of her 50 x 50 cm € 850,00 (excl. vat) homeland, and more precise by the Schwarzwald. Collective The Waltz, 2015 > Giclée print on aluminium memories, the fairy tales, the 50 x 50 cm beauty of life echo load in her € 850,00 (excl. vat) work. >> Thank you for the Flowers Giclée print on aluminium Her work makes you wonder 50 x 50 cm and puts a smile on your face, € 850,00 (excl. vat) 38 39

Paul Cupido Uh-huh, 2017 Archival Pigment Print Baryta 22,5 x 15 cm € 275,00 (excl. vat) AP + ed. 2 Jaasir Linger Zoetermeer - the netherlands

Jaasir Linger is a Dutch image maker that takes moments from 40 his personal and the everyday 41 life, which he transforms into images as though they have been taken in another world. The often, analogue, black and white high contrast grainy images he creates show a different perspective on the everyday and banal fleeting moments and objects that are passing by. His interests lie mainly in subjects concerning time, space, the world and universe we live in as well as in astrobiology. ‘Rocking Horse’ (2017) is an image that Jaasir has created Jaasir Linger as an homage to an old photo Rocking horse, 2017 of himself, where he is portray- Gicléeprint, framed with museum ed as a young boy in sailor suit glass 50 x 50 cm on a rocking horse. € 750,00 (excl. VAT) Ed. 10 + AP Lee Musgrave White Salmon - United States

It is Lee Musgraves habit to cut colored tissue paper are from up waste materials before dis- London. carding it but, before he does When he saw how the light 43 he throws some of it onto his held these disparate shapes work table to see what together in an engaging way, he surprises he may discover. If photographed the setting then what he sees holds his at- shuffled the objects to see if the tention he photographs it. The effect held in a new composi- objects are often from several tion. It did, so he photographed places in the world that he’d them again and repeated the recently visited. process several times ending For example, works from with a series of cheeringly com- Musgraves’ Light Ring Essence pelling, energized abstract Series hold a paper doily and photographs that far exceed the colorful rubber bands from mundane, everyday nature of Lee Musgrave Australia; a dark blue shape the ephemera objects themsel- Tickled Fancy 44 Giclée print, aluminium with swirling dots that is part of ves. 40x 50 cm a bag from Freiburg, Germany; Presented here are images € 595,00 (excl. vat) the blue-green wave shapes from two unique series’ of found Ed. 10 +AP were part of an ice cream cup ephemera staged in chance In the gallery size 20 x 26 cm is from Switzerland; the green dot created compositions. shown and circle were from a market Lee Musgrave studied in Los other sizes available in Oregon; and the pieces of Angeles with Hans Burkhardt and Fritz Faiss. Hans was 45 studio partner of Arshile Gorky and Mark Tobey. Fritz studied at the Bauhaus with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. One can see this background echo is Lee’s work. He specializes in abstract photography for which he has received several international awards.

Lee Musgrave Fiddle Diddle with Red Bean Giclée print, aluminium 40 x 50 cm € 595,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 10 +AP

In the gallery size 30 x 37,5 cm is shown other sizes available Marcy Rich Emeryville - united states

For most of her life American photographer Marcie Rich has felt like an alien on this planet. 47 Separate, funny-looking, too emotional. In this photos she is the weird object in the scene, and this is her surreal world. She is currently working on a collection of self-portraits.

Marcie Rich Dummy, 2017 Giclée print, aluminium 43 x 29 cm € 685,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 10 Astrid van Rijn Rotterdam - the netherlands

In a city like Rotterdam one can always find Wunderkammers. You just have to walk around 48 with your eyes wide open. Astrid van Rijn found marvel- lous wunderkammers in the reflections in windows. In this glass surface a non existing, untouchable new image comes into being, for inside and outside create an often surreal new image.

Astrid van Rijn City Reflectie nr 1, 2017 Photoprint on Fuji Pearl fotopaper on dibond, matte laminated 30 x 40 cm € 500,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 10 + AP

City Reflectie nr 2, 2017 Photoprint on Fuji Pearl fotopaper on dibond, matte laminated 30 x 40 cm € 500,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 10 + AP Olga Rook Krimpen aan de IJsel - the netherlands

Olga Rooks Heaven is part of and epiphany. the ‘Portals’ series. It is a jour- The “Portals” refer to the ney through a labyrinth of ima- symbolism of golden light as 42 51 gined realities, space and time representing the filter of con- dislocations. Entryways to other templation. It marks human universes appear in our mind self-consciousness with its urge as we invent and invite them. for personal meanings and Ultimately, the series is about a ability to evoke virtual worlds. travel through the realm of the It is essential that the scene is subconscious. presented as it was seen. No The intense golden light recurs objects were added or removed the antique ambrotype aesthe- in post processing, photo ma- tics to suggest a departure from nipulation being limited to the the ordinary and contemporary. antique esthetics. “Portals” is an At the same time it is inspired ongoing project. by the Orthodox symbolism where a golden colour repre- Olga Rook sents light in its metaphysical Heaven, 2012 sense, the light that is invisible Giclée print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, framed with to senses, transcends the re- passepartout ality and appears before one’s 47 x 32 cm inner eye through contempla- € 580,00 (excl. btw) Ed. 8 tion. It stands for illumination Torsten Schumann Berlin - germany

What do cars, clothes and cab- Photography helps Torsten bages have in common? Apart question the everyday. The more he does this, the more he 44 from the fact that photograp- 53 her Torsten Schumann comes sees the world as an enigma. across all of these things on his wanderings through urban streets and spaces, they are not connected. In his photography, everyday elements frequently come together ac- cidentally to form constellations that don’t seem entirely real.

Schumann is interested in everyday objects within urban spaces. Which is why he often wonders why and to what Torsten Schumann purpose people create certain Observations in the Park, from things. What might the story the series More Cars, Clothes and Cabbages, 2015 behind these objects be? Archival print, aluminium Sometimes it is possible to 30 x 40 cm € 720,00 (excl. vat) guess at a connection, but often Ed. 5 + 2 AP enough, they remain a mystery. Deborah Sfez Haifa - israel

THE VOICE UNSPOKEN

54 There’s a voice underlying all 47 events and scenes There’s a threat In all appearances Of joy That left Deserting us planted in an unknown soil Remembering vaguely Its laughter Rolling like A wooden toy.

Deborah Sfez The voice unspoken, 2015 Photoprint of multiple collage 30 x 42 cm € 850,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 10 Darren Smith Amsterdam - the netherlands/usa

Darren Smith wanders in that shows that entertain- search of unique characters ment, taste in music, choice of and personalities. He has trave- clothing and status has nothing 56 57 led the world pursuing his pho- to do with sexuality. This series tography from USA to Australia, of iconic images captures and with a sojourn in France, to his celebrates the city of Amster- home in the Netherlands. dam’s initiatives to promote His passion for photographing greater diversity of race, sex people was forged at the early and gender identities. stages of his career when the These photographs, in colla- American fashion photographer boration with Marcus Köppen Stan Shaffer took Darren on as (Smith & Köppen) showcase Darren Smith his assistant in 2007. Stan pu- Milkshake’s performers, the Cheddar Gorgeous, 2016, from the project ‘Candy and the coloured shed him to discover a real con- crème de la crème of Europe’s girls’ i.c.w. Marcus Köppen (Smith nection with people in front of festival scene, who have con- & Köppen) his lens and not to hide behind verged into one place for one Archival digital print the camera. breath-taking weekend that is 70 x 50 cm, framed utterly timeless. The performers € 1200,00 (excl. vat) Smiths loves capturing the take us on a journey into an € 950,00 (excl. vat) unframed Ed.2 of 10 + 3 AP essence of what he sees in a alternate reality where the past, person and showing the light of present, and future meet, and also avialable: 90 x 64 cm (price on request) their humanity to the world. there are no limitations on Ed. 1 van 4 (+ 3 AP) Milkshake is a dance festival personal expression. 58 59

Darren Smith < Outer Space Succubus 2016, from the project ‘Planet Wasteland’ Darren and Marcus also had and come out from the dark- i.c.w. Marcus Köppen (Smith & the privilege to be invited back- ness to be photographed under Köppen) stage to document the visual the vivid studio lights. These > Fetish Astronaut, 2016, from the transformation of the artists and portraits take us inside a fetish- project ‘Planet Wasteland’ i.c.w.. Marcus Köppen (Smith & Köppen) performers into otherworldly fueled future to unveil astronau- characters at Wasteland festival trix space adventurers, exotic Archival digital print 24.11.2016. alien races neither angel nor 70 x 50 cm, framed € 1200,00 (excl. vat) The series of photographs demon, primitive natives with € 950,00 (excl. vat) unframed plunge us into a dystopian untamed desires, and femme Ed.10 + 3 AP world with an overlay of neon, fatale sexbots perfect in every also avialable: 90 x 64 cm (price on futuristic science-fiction. Here, way. request) temptations lurk in every corner Ed. 1 van 4 (+ 3 AP) Van Os & Depassé Hilversum/Castricum - the netherlands

This Wunderkammer is a co- creation of Ellen van Os, textile 60 artist and Iris Depasse, artist/ 61 photographer. Under the motto: “Something old, something new, something different, something true”, they put together their art treasures from different parts of the world and arranged and photographed this motley collection of colors and forms. You can roam around in this wonderworld and fire your imagination. Ellen and Iris also make personal Wunderkammers in com- mission with your own personal Van Os & Depassé objects, photos, art or clothing. Créer votre cabinet des curiosités. Un petit musée chez soi, 2018 Print on aluminium dibond 48 x 59 cm € 250,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 35 Iedje Visser Grave - the netherlands

Looking at flowing time

62 Photographs capture the time that flows and already passed, but still is visible and tangible in present times. Time is fleeting and always as- tir. This movement is what Iedje Visser captures in her work. The objects she uses in her work stemmed from her own personal wunderkammer and are symbols of transciense, beauty and relativity.

Iedje Visser Looking at flowing time 1, 2017 Giclée print, aluminium 45 x 30 cm € 350,00 (excl. vat) Helma Vlemmings Hoek van Holland - the netherlands

Hotel America in Hoek van Hol- got one, unique change to en- land has a rich history. During ter the building. She loved the WW II the German Wehr- deplorable, raw and unpolished 64 65 macht enlarged the hotel with state of this building that for a partylounge, which the used decennia is pauperizing in the for their festivities. After the heart of the citycentre. occupation the lounge, named Helma made a series of photos Zaal America, was kept in use of Zaal America. For Wunder- as a partycentre, cinema and kammer she turned one photo at the end of the eighties of the into a mindtwisting object. With past century as a discotheque. the photo of an old toweldis- For many ‘Hoekenezen’ as the penser she created a lightbox, inhabitants of Hoek van Holland which turned the yellow dispen- are called, Zaal Amercia was cer in an alarmlamp. the centre of the nightlife. But once the lounge lost that function it deteriorated quickly. Helma Vlemmings The remains of what used to be Zaal AMERICA, Hoek van Holland, the discotheque and of illegal 2015 Fine art print in light box, occupancy are still visible: eve- various materials rything is dusty, neglected and 47 x 33 cm broken down. € 650,00 (excl. vat) Ed. 4 Photographer Helma Vlemming John de Vos Rotterdam - the netherlands

John de Vos is a seasoned Boonstra, reality was not artist. His main artistic business enough, they created - inspired 66 consists of making sculptures by surrealisme, new phantastic with ‘objects trouvés’ at the worlds. seashore in such a way that object and nature are confronted with each other in a bizar way. When John is not in nature he hides his objects in raree show- like boxes, also confronting elements from different worlds with each other. The work ‘Atlantisch’ is a modern interpretation of long lost Atlantis. De Vos is inspired by the staged photography from the eighties from the twentieth century and the artists and John de Vos photographers from the ‘Rot- Atlantisch terdamse School’. For these Digital print, framed photographers, like Henk Tas 30 x 40 cm € 247,50 (excl. vat) and guestcurator Rommert Ed. 10 Nana Zhang Bejing- china

Why we hate death so roughly without knowing who is waiting behind it. 68 69

I have been fascinated in the world of photography for almost ten years. This wonder box helps me to mix the two kind of realities together, outside and inside. Each still photo is a recall of details of that particular point of time & space, and also a research about my psyche situation at that moment.

Nana Zhang The food murder scene 2, 2015 Giclée print on aluminium 20 x 20 cm € 150,00 (excl. vat) Open edition 70 71

Nana Zhang < The food murder scene 1, 2015 Giclée print on aluminium 20 x 20 cm € 150,00 (excl. vat) Open edition

< The food murder scene 4, 2015 Giclée print on aluminium 20 x 20 cm € 150,00 (excl. vat) Open edition

> The food murder scene 3, 2015 Giclée print on aluminium 20 x 20 cm € 150,00 (excl. vat) Open edition 68 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Arnoud Bakker kammers which he photograp- long time, o.a. for Rijksmuseum at the TU Delft, she has been Next to that, she is a member of Gosia Kalisciak Arnoud Bakker, who studied at hed, and nowadays he makes and Amazon.com. In 2017 he working as a project developer the YAE collective - their works Gosia Kalisciak is a price win- the AKI in Enschede, can best his wonderworlds also on the opened his own gallery and in housing, offices and retail for were part of the exhibition ning photographer from The be described as an esthetic computer. Boonstra was a studio in ‘t Olde Postkantoor 11 years. In search of creativity ‘Weird Science’ at the GEM in Netherlands. She graduated romantic. Bakker works like an teacher at various Dutch Art in Olst - The Netherlands. His and freedom to develop her The Hague. from the Fotoacademie Amster- photo-alchemist, experimenting Academies. In The Netherlands work has been exhibited in own way of creation she started dam in 2016. During her studies with time, light, chemicals and millions of commuting people the Netherlands and abroad to study at the Fotoacademie www.yolenth.com she already won the Fototrofee cameras in order to give his unconsciously know his work, in group- and solo exhibitions Amsterdam in 2014. She is Amsterdam and the Image subjects and photos ‘eternal for a long time his artworks and is often published. Peter expecting to graduate at the Pascale Hustings Creative ‘Dark and Light’-price. life’. He is constantly in search could be seen in 800 trains of received an honorable mention end of 2018. Pascale Hustings graduated at Her work is published many of ideal beauty, feeling like a the Dutch Railroads. in the category Fine Art from the Fotoacademie Amsterdam times in magazines and natio- (godly) creator who by catching His work has been shown in the Monovisions Photography www.estherhemmer.nl in 2016. In her photobased ima- nal newspapers and exhibited 74 light can cling to the volatility many museums, art galleries Awards 2017. ges Pascale makes the viewer in The Netherlands from 2012 75 of life as if he ‘light stamps’ his and fairs all over the world. Yolenth van den Hoogen in a new way aware of time, until now. subjects. Centre Européen de la Pho- http://eleveld.net/blog/ Yolenth van den Hoogen is a vi- form and space. Her work can Bakkers work has been publis- tographie Paris, Musée de la sual artist based in Amsterdam. be 2- or 3dimensional, or even www.fotogoska.com hed a.o. in GUP and DNCHT Photographie Charleroi, The Geertje Geertsma She completed her study as reused in a new image. Pascale and has been in show in vari- Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Geertje Geertsma studied Fine a textile designer and worked Hustings combines photos to Michaela Kindle ous (inter)national galleries and Frac (Metz), Centre Pompidou Arts at Minerva Art Academy as a stylist for photography for her own view in such a way Michaela Kindle is a photo- museums. (Paris), Neue Gallery Aken, (Groningen). She graduated in many magazines, brands and that they appael to your visual grapher and visual artist who Galerie Torch Amsterdam, Gro- 2015. campains, as well as a costume abillities in order to orientate is based in Germany. She was www.arnoudbakker.com ninger Museum, Rheinisches Her work is exhibited in The designer for film. you. The suggestions Hustings born and raised in Germany but Landesmuseum Bonn, Art Co- Netherlands and abroad. Her works have been selected make can raise questions about went on to study Photography Rommert Boonstra logne, Kunstverein Munchen, and exposed in Italy for Analo- the way we relate to our vision at Santa Monica College in Los Rommert Boonstra devoted his KunstRai Amsterdam, FotoFest www.geertjegeertsma.com gica and as part of the Verge of in an imaginairy world. Pascale Angeles. She received her Cer- life to photography and poetry Houston are just a few of them. Ruin at the Milano Film Festi- is featured as a New Dutch tificate of Photography in 2005. since 1980. Before that time he Esther Hemmer val, in Venice at Spazio Aereo, Photography talent 2018 in During her time in Los Angeles, was a theatre director. Boonstra www.rommertboonstra.nl Esther Hemmer grew up in a at Acud Macht Neu in Berlin Gup. as well as in London, she disco- is one of the founding fathers small village located in the east and at Art Rotterdam. vered a passion for creating of Staged Photography in the Peter Eleveld part of the Netherlands. After In The Netherlands with Folkert www.pascalehustings.nl “New Moments” - digital compo- Netherlands. He turned boxes Peter Eleveld worked in the her graduation, msc architec- de Jong at the Eye Film Mu- sites of moments captured filled with objects in Wunder- professional photography for a ture real estate development seum and Galery Fons Welters. through her lens - a beautiful fusion of reality & imagination biennial prize for the best Dutch photographs; in 2017 LandEs- the Willem de Kooning Aca- ons. Her work was exhibited at Award 2017. - of silence & action - of then & journalistic production made by cape Contemporary Art Review, demie in Rotterdam. She is a galleries, art fairs and exposi- now. Kindle’s many exhibitions freelancers. Anniversary Edition; in 2016 painter, poet and photograp- tions in The Netherlands, as www.torstenschumann.de include those at: Kunstmuseum – Create Magazine, 6 pages of her and has recently taken up in Berlin, Moscow, London, Hasemann-Liebich; Schwarz- www.jaasirlinger.com text and photos; in L’Oeil de GIF-animation productions. Her Budapest, Kyoto, and various Deborah Sfez wälder Freilichtmuseum la Photographie e-magazine, 27 work is used to illustrate novels, locations across the US. Deborah Sfez is an Israel artist Vogtsbauernhof; Storchenturm Lee Musgrave February 2016; and in the cur- music projects, etc. She took born in 1964, mainly working in Museum - all in Germany and Originally from Australia Lee rent issue A5 Magazine. part in many exhibitions and her www.lifefixation.com Israel, focusing on the fields of Focus photo l.a., USA. Musgrave studied in Los An- work was published in magazi- Photography and Video in all geles with Hans Burkhardt and www.leemusgrave.com nes as the Phonographer. Torsten Schumann their creative configurations. www.kindle-photography.de Fritz Faiss. Hans was studio Torsten Schumann is a Berlin She calls herself a visual writer partner of Arshile Gorky and Marcie Rich www.astridvanrijn.nl based photographer. He takes using words and images, with a 76 Jaasir Linger Mark Tobey. Fritz studied at the Marcie Rich has long felt like an photographs of situations and camera as extended eye. She 77 Jaasir Linger is a Dutch image Bauhaus with Paul Klee and outsider on this planet. Separa- Olga Rook objects in urban spaces as studied French and English Li- maker (photography & film). Af- Wassily Kandinsky. Lee is the te, funny-looking, too emotional. Olga Rook is a photographer found. terature at Haifa University and ter his bachelor’s study ‘Media recipient of an American Natio- She has always been horrified born in Moscow and currently He exhibited in many group Fashion Design in ESMOD Pa- & Entertainment Management’, nal Endowment for the Arts Fel- at what she looks like in photos living in Rotterdam. She has shows and had solo shows at ris, and Scenery and Costume where he specialized in art- lowship and his work has been but is weirdly compelled to use been intrigued by perception, Galerie Alles Moegliche Berlin Design at Rakefet Levi school house films and film art, Jaasir- exhibited in numerous solo and herself in every one: the weird imagination and time. Before and at Soiz Gallery in Passau Scenery and Costume Design started studying at Fotoacade- group exhibitions. He speciali- object in the scenery, and this is turning to photographic art Olga 2017. He has been awarded in Tel Aviv. Deborah has been mie Amsterdam. zes in abstract photography for her surreal world. obtained her master’s and PhD the PDN Photo Annual Awards exhibiting her photography Jaasir’s work was showcased which he has received several Her work is exhibited in the degrees in Medieval and 2017, OPUS Kulturmagazin and video work in Israel, Paris, during the ‘Nederlandse international awards throughout United States and beyond and Early Modern History and did Prize 2015 and Arte Laguna Germany and Belgium in the Fotoweek 2014’ and in 2016 his outstanding long career as published in European and research in Renaissance cul- Prize 2012. His work is publis- last five years, and won several ‘SHUTR.Photo’ featured Jaa- an artist. His work has been ex- American magazines like Blur ture. Her photography is about hed in magazines like Der Greif photography and art prizes. sir in the recurring section ‘De hibited in the USA and abroad. Magazine, LoosenArt Concep- the metaphors and illusive and ZEITmagazine. Nieuwe Garde – Aanstormend It was most recently exhibited in tual and Femme Fotale. worlds discovered and His book “More Cars, Clothes www.deborah-s-artist.com Talent’. In 2017 he was selec- the 2016 Berlin Foto Biennale constructed through reflection and Cabbages” was published ted for the ‘Nikon-NOOR Aca- and the 2017 9th Pollux Awards www.marcierich.com and imagination. Over the past in 2016 by Peperoni Books. Darren Smith demy’ masterclass week. Re- Exhibition, Barcelona; featured years Olga has obtained a “Off Keel” was shortlisted at Darren Smith has a Bachelor of cently, Jaasir won the ‘Gouden in DoHo Magazine, Novem- Astrid van Rijn number of international photo- the UNSEEN Dummy Award Communications (Film & Video) Freelancer Award 2016/2017’, a ber 2017 online article with 19 Astrid van Rijn graduated from graphy awards and nominati- 2016 and at the Kassel Dummy from the Edith Cowan Universi- ty in Perth. He has traveled the working longtime as a careers is fascinated with form langu- he took up photography for a world pursuing his photography consultant Iris decided to turn age of ordinary, often perceived while, but moved back to sculp- from USA to Australia, with a back to the arts and took up ugly, beauty. Helma is emotion- ting for he found the perfect sojourn in France, to the Ne- photography and painting. She ally attached to the city of Rot- solutions for his studio troubles therlands. is specialized in abstract photo- terdam and part of her identity by working in open air on Darren was assistent of the graphy which she also teaches is being a ‘Rotterdammer’. the Dutch isle Texel. John is American fashion photographer at her Academie voor Abstracte In 2017 she started the project member of the RAR (an artist Stan Shaffer. His work is exhibi- Fotografie. ‘viewboxes and comfortzones’. association near Rotterdam) ted in the States, Australia and She collects her photos in view and had multiple exhibitions of the Netherlands. In 2017 Dar- www.ellenvanos.com boxes of various sorts, to make his work in The Netherlands. ren was the winner with Portrait www.irisdepasse.nl the view a more individual or folio for the GoSee Creative special experience. www.beeldfotobeeld.nl 78 Awards Berlin PUBLIC category Iedje Visser Her comfort zones are city 79 Oceans of subcultures project Iedje Visser took up photograp- objects, offering a one person Na Zhang – Smith & Köppen and was hy out of discontent with the shelter to relax for a while Na Zhang is a photographer nominated for the IRIS Portrait photos of advertising agencies when the city is crowed and from Beijing. She has been AWARD from the Perth Centre she had to work with during her enjoy its beauty at the same fascinated in the world of photo- of Photography twice. career as a human resource time. That’s how she shows graphy for almost ten years. manager. Eventually photo- and gives beauty in the world. This wonder box helps her to www.darrensmith.nl graphy turned out to be her After all, Helma wants to make mix the two kind of realities new profession. She is an event a statement. She participated together: outside and inside. Van Os & Depassé photographer, but her heart lies in many projects combining art For her each photo is a recall Artistduo Van Os & Depassé in still life photography. and society. of details of that particular consists of Ellen van Os and point of time & space, and also Iris Depassé. Ellen van Os is www.iedjevisserphotography.nl www.straz.nl a research about her psyche a textile designer. She created situation at that moment. Zhang costumes for theatres, ballets, Helma Vlemmings John de Vos works with different kind of musicals and television, but Helma Vlemmings graduated John graduated from the Willem cameras - from toy cameras to also designs evening ware and from the Willem de Kooning de Kooning Academie in twinreflex. bridal gowns. Iris Depassé stu- Academie in 2005. She creates Rotterdam as a sculptor. After died Art & Art Managment at the still photos and installations having had troubles with finding www.zhangnafoto.com Univesity of Groningen. After with image or language. She the perfect studio for his work 80 81