On May 24th, I hope to graduate along with 32 other students from the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam. On the day of the exam, our work will be viewed by a committee of professionals in the field, at the baggage hall of Loods 6. They will determine whether we pass that day. Following that, there will be an exhibition from May 25th to May 28th.

If you would like to attend the exhibition (free admission), it will be open from May 25th at 8:00 pm. This is also the official opening of Expo Emergo. For more information, please visit the Emergo website.

About my graduation project

Where the spirit meets the bone

With this work, I focus my attention on the body as a means of expressing feelings and emotions. Because of my own dance background, I enjoy working with dancers for this purpose. Their refined body vocabulary and knowledge of making inner movement visible is something that inspires me.

The moments I capture are not the moments of a completed or perfect movement. I find the moments between movements, the journey towards them, much more interesting. The movement that has not been thought about, when the dancer is no longer aware of his surroundings.

Fragments that tell a story or release an emotion. It is something we have no words for, a body language, in which we can recognize ourselves.
It is no longer about dance, but about the unposed, fragmented movement that evokes or unleashes emotions.

The project will be bound as a book with 112 pages of thoughts and black and white photos, printed on Munken Pure 90g paper. It will have a handmade spine and sleeve.

You can find more information about the book here.