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    In my art practice I’m using photographic techniques to advance my human understanding of the man-made world. Often by incorporating the in/capabilities of the medium to discover new ways of thinking and researching the subject-matter. For example, I deploy my own developed methods and counterintuitive experiments to measure artificial night lighting on transparency film or to make cellphone reception visible by using infrared film with conceptual rigour and fictional narratives. Currently, I'm interested in the relationship between assimilation light used for photosynthesis and economic profit versus ecological growth.

    My bookshelf includes titles such as: Against The Anthropocene - Visual Culture and Environment Today by T.J. Demos; a collection of essays published by SonicActs: The Geologic Imagination; and my most recent go-to text: Mining Photography - The Ecological Footprint of Image Production. With my work I aim to contribute to a new aesthetic vision that is attuned to the ideas of ecology and sustainability.
    Despite my concerns about the footprint of image-making – and while I'm researching ecological alternatives, I believe that photography fulfils a critical role in witnessing and establishing our relationship to the environment and all other species with whom we share the planet.

    You can follow my recent activities on Instagram. Or contact me for a studio visit.

    Portrait by Melanie Pelupessy

    Study

    • 2022

      Bachelor of Arts, Department of Fine Art Photography, Visual Culture+ minor, at the Willem de Kooning Academy, graduated Cum laude with Honours degree (Learning to Innovate Competence Profile of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences), The Netherlands

    Exhibitions

    • 2023 - till 27 april

      BUILDING IMPACT, Group exhibition, Timmerhuis - Gemeente Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL

    • 2022

      Solo exhibition - LichtKunstGouda, Art Centre Firma van Drie, Gouda, NL

    • 2022

      Best of Graduates 2022, Galerie Ron Mandos, Young Blood Foundation, Amsterdam, NL

    • 2022

      Graduation Show 2022 — WdKA, Rotterdam, NL

    • 2022

      Alienation - Group exhibition, Worm, Rotterdam, NL

    • 2021

      InsideOUT - Group exhibition, Rotterdam Building, Rotterdam, NL

    • 2020

      Dear Shapes in Space - Group exhibition, WORM - Slash Gallery, UBIK Space, Rotterdam, NL

    • 2019

      Making (a) Public - Group exhibition, Sodafabriek, Schiedam, NL

    Publications

    • 2022

      Scotopia - visual essay, Book Market - Unseen Amsterdam Photofair

    • 2022

      BK Informatie, Examens 2022, 2022-04

    • 2022

      Alineosphere, Honours programme

    • 2021

      Limits, Honours programme

    Nominations & awards

    • 2022

      Blurring the Lines, Fotodok, awarded Special Mention

    • 2022

      Arts Threads Global Graduate show, Nominee

    • 2022

      RM Young Blood Award, Nominee

    • 2022

      Drempelprijs (Threshold Award), Willem de Kooning, Nominee

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