While walking around and paying close attention to my surroundings, my desire to photograph gets triggered when situations coincide. An evocative occurrence, a memory, a déjà vu, a feeling I cannot describe: as if something could happen at any moment. I take the picture. With the negative I work in the dark for hours to create the final image. In it, I want a world to exist that cannot always be defined, but that makes me long for that intangible place.
Esmee van Zeeventer (Rotterdam, 1997) graduated the bachelor of Fine Arts at the AKI Artez Enschede in 2021. She is now working as an artist using analog photography and exploring moving image. Esmee seems to operate as an investigator of her own universe, reflecting on her personal history, investigating and showing contemporary possibilities on everyday motives and matters while pondering on questions of the world. She extracts images from the world around her to visualize life’s eternal subjects as memories, love, fear and loneliness.
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Exhibitions
(group) - Rotterdam, NL
(group) - Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden, NL
(group) - kunsthal HOF88, Almelo, NL
UNSEEN (group) - Galerie Fontana, Amsterdam, NL
Hoe = het Nu (group) - ACEC & het Kunstgemaal, Apeldoorn & Bronkhorst, NL
De Belofte #17 (group) - Kunstliefde, Utrecht, NL
Longing & Echoes of a Culture (solo) - Galerie Joghem, Sanquin, Amsterdam, NL
As the World Turns (group) - Huis van de Fotografie, Rotterdam, NL
Longing for a place I've never been to soloDe Gelderlandfabriek
Seeking the Centre (group) - Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam, NL
Best of Graduates (group) - Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
Graduate Showcase (group) - The Pupil Sphere, online, UK
AKI FinalsgroupArtez AKI,
Het zoete leven (group) - Huis van de Fotografie, Rotterdam, NL
Mixed up (duo) –B93, Enschede, NL
Wild grammar (group) – EMAF, Osnabrück, DE
AKI takes over (group) - Vrijhof Culture, Enschede, NL
Project exhibition (group) -TETEM, Enschede, NL
Publications
NRC, Longing for a place I've never been to, article by Rianne van Dijck (offline)
Graduate Showcase, zine, The Pupil Sphere
Tubantia en Saxion.nl, Passing by
Further 02 photobook by the Fotobus Society
Encourage photobook Canon
Street poetry I small press, self-published
Canon Student Programme One of the selected students, Canon, Perpignan, FR
Nominations
Lakeside Collection Residency Award, 2nd prize
RM Photo Talent Award, nominee
Canon student development, selected
Education
Lighthouse, FOTODOK, Utrecht, NL
Apprentice Master, Kunstpodium-T with master Vytautas Kumza, Tilburg, NL
BA Fine Arts, AKI Artez, Enschede, NL
BA Creative media, Saxion University of Applied sciences, Enschede, NL
Canon student development programme, visa pour l'image, Online Edition
Intern at Tetem & Sickhouse, Enschede, NL
NOOR workshop, NOOR Images with Sanne de Wilde & Sebastian Liste, Dortmund, DE
Canon student development programme, visa pour l'image, Perpignan, FR
Intern of Jasper Abels, NL
activities: giving workshops in photography, teaching for the University of Twente