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.

2023

2023

2023

 

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

 

2021

2021

2021

2021

2021

 

2019

2019

2019

 

2018

 

 

 

 

2021

2021

2021

2020

2020

2019

2019

 

 

 

2021

2021

2019

 

 

 

2022/23

2022/23

2016-2021

2017-2022

2020

2020

2019

2019

2017

 

 

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 (solo) - De Gelderlandfabriek, Culemborg, NL

 

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 Finals (group) - Artez AKI, Enschede, NL

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

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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.

Exhibitions

 

coming in 2023:

(group) - Rotterdam, NL

(group) - Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden, NL

(group) - kunsthal HOF88, Almelo, NL

 

2022

UNSEEN (group), Galerie Fontana, Amsterdam, NL

 

2022

Hoe = het Nu (group) - ACEC & het Kunstgemaal, Apeldoorn & Bronkhorst, NL

 

2022             

De Belofte #17 (group) - Kunstliefde, Utrecht, NL

 

2022

Longing & Echoes of a Culture (solo) - Galerie Joghem, Sanquin, Amsterdam, NL

 

2022

As the World Turns (group) - Huis van de Fotografie, Rotterdam, NL

 

2022

Longing for a place I've never been to (solo) - De Gelderlandfabriek, Culemborg, NL

 

2021

Seeking the Centre - Gupta Strategists (group) - Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam, NL

 

2021

Best of Graduates (group) - Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL

 

2021              

Graduate Showcase (group) - The Pupil Sphere, online, UK

 

2021

AKI Finals (group) - Artez AKI, Enschede, NL

 

2021

Het zoete leven (group) - Huis van de Fotografie, Rotterdam, NL

 

2019

Mixed up (duo) –B93, Enschede, NL

 

2019

Wild grammar (group) – EMAF, Osnabrück, DE

 

2019

AKI takes over (group) - Vrijhof Culture, Enschede, NL

 

2018

Project exhibition (group) -TETEM, Enschede, NL

 

 

Publications

 

2021           NRC, Longing for a place I've never been to, article by Rianne van Dijck (offline)

 

2021

Graduate Showcase   zine, The Pupil Sphere

 

2020

Further 02            photobook by the Fotobus Society

 

2020

Encourage           photobook Canon

 

2019

Street poetry I     small press, self-published

 

2019

Canon Student Programme, selected student, Canon, Perpignan, FR

 

Nominations

 

2021        Lakeside Collection Residency Award,

2nd prize

2021        RM Photo Talent Award, nominee

 

Education

 

2022/23

Lighthouse, FOTODOK, Utrecht, NL

 

2022/23

Apprentice Master, Kunstpodium-T with master Vytautas Kumza, Tilburg, NL

 

2022

De Belofte #17, Kunstliefde, Utrecht, NL

 

2016 - 2021

BA Fine Arts, AKI Artez, Enschede, NL

 

2017 - 2022

BA Creative media & game technologies, Saxion University of Applied sciences, Enschede, NL

 

2020                

Canon student development programme, visa pour l'image, Online Edition

 

2020

Internship at Tetem & Sickhouse, Enschede, NL

 

2019

NOOR workshop, NOOR Images with Sanne de Wilde & Sebastian Liste, Dortmund, DE

 

2019

Canon student development programme, visa pour l'image, Perpignan, FR

 

2017

Intern of fashion photogapher Jasper Abels, NL

 

activities: giving workshops in photography, teaching for the University of Twente