Onderweg (On my way) 2023/2024
‘On my way’ is a photobook in collaboration with poetry in which I have made a fictional storyline visual. The photos represent men who struggle with uncertainty and try to find themselves in an individual way. I begin this project because in mine opinion, we don’t talk a lot and make not visual what it’s like to deal and find a way in uncertainty that men experience. I think this is a shame because this should be more open to discussion and visible. How i see it, everyone struggles with insecurities sometimes and there may be. Everyone takes steps in their own way to do something with it. To free yourself from uncertainty, to explore and to find a new me. That is my goal and message with my photobook ‘Onderweg’ ( On my way)
With this link you can see the PDF book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kpNNU88rkqIjMdN kyxzmiizVepdRwXHM/view?usp=drive_link
My body 2022/2023
In the photo project “my body,” I started to focus on the theme of the body and the subject of “how we feel in our bodies and look at other people’s bodies.” My research question, “Is it okay for me as a maker to engage with this theme and subject and ask someone to pose for the camera when I myself don’t even dare and have never done it?”, was the common thread for this project. I wanted to do this because I think it is important to change ‘the view’ of the body.
With this project, I wanted to explore how vulnerable our bodies are and how we look at them. I invited people to look at others and themselves without judgment.
The final work is a mixed media installation with written letters from the persons portrayed, printed photography and interactive elements.
