Let’s build a mountain
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is a research-based photographer inspired by the impact of human actions on their environment and the way humans relate to natural phenomena.
With her imaginative and investigative approach she aims to open up a conversation about themes such as control, conflict and co-existence.



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Split Collective 

February 2024

We've already been collaborating behind the scenes for years, sharing countless discussions about the world and our photography. Now, it's official: we're Split Collective! From our early days at the Fotoacademie until now, it's truly been an pleasure working together on inspiring projects.

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Royal College of Music

November 2023

Royal College of Music composers create new works inspired by a selection of images from the Head On Photo Awards. So happy that my image inspired one of the composers. And how special to hear the wonderful music alongside my image and how it illuminates a new way of viewing at it.
You can watch and hear the full concert online.

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Finalist Head On
Environmental Awards 

October 2023

So happy I’m selected as a finalist for the Head On Environmental Awards by Australian Geographic. The work is part of a group exhibition during the festival along Bondi Beach Promenade in Sydney. Quite bizar to see this cold scene in front of the beach.

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Winner The British Journal of Photography OpenWalls Arles vol.4

June 2023

I’m happy to announce that my image from the project ‘Let’s build a mountain’ is one of the winners of The British Journal of Photography OpenWalls Arles vol. 4.
The winning image is on show together with the 49 other single image winners and two series at Galerie Huit Arles, parallel with the Les Rencontres d’Arles festival all summer.

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Graduated!

December 2022

After 5 years of hard work I am graduated from the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam! So special my project ‘Let’s build a mountain’ is finally out there and seeing it displayed together with the work of my 22 fellow students in Loods 6 Amsterdam.

In my graduation project ‘Let’s build a mountain’ 
I am investigating the limits of the shapeable, in which the Rhône glacier is a metaphor for the friction between the human urge to control and the resilient autonomy of nature.

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