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Mariëtte Roodenburg
I am usually drawn toward a simple pattern of light and shadow, a clear line or –more recently – the magic of certain colour tones. I try to visualize something that is different and personal to me. Mostly, I am moved by a sense of calmness of a place or of a certain moment. It is this sense of tranquility that I try to capture in my photographs.
My father introduced me to photography at an early age. An avid, amateur photographer, he taught me how to set up a makeshift darkroom and how to print my own black and white photographs. I have been using all sorts of cameras and a wide array of makeshift darkrooms ever since.
Originally from Curaçao, I grew up in the Netherlands and finally moved to Nova Scotia in 2003. Although passionate about photography, it did not occur to me to make a career out of it initially. After a long detour – a Bachelors Degree in Art History and Archeology (Leiden University), a Masters in Business Administration (IIB, Delft), a PhD in Business Economics (Rotterdam University) and a career in business – I finally decided to return to photography and close the circle in 1996. I was admitted to a three-year, full-time program in creative photography at the Academy Amsterdam, where I studied from 1996 – 1998.
My photographs have been presented at group exhibitions at Fotogram, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (several exhibitions between 1996 and 1998), Atelier Sömmerling, Cologne, Germany (Young Dutch Photography, September 1998), ViewPoint Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (several group shows and work continuously on display from March 2003 – December 2004) and anderson, gallery of contemporary photography, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (permanent representation from June 2005 - now). In September 2004 ViewPoint Gallery featured my first solo show: first impression – landscape photographs of Nova Scotia. In July 2007, anderson featured my second solo show: Safe Haven, with text by Larry Gaudet. The show coincided with the book launch of Larry Gaudet’s Safe Haven – the Possibility of Sanctuary in an Unsafe World, a non-fiction book published by Random House Canada in the summer of 2007. In September-October 2008, The Sherman Hines Museum of Photography featured Squares, a selection of my square format work and in December 2008 Mohr Interieurs in Vught, The Netherlands hosted IJswater, a winter show, combining a selection of my photographic work with Alvar Aalto glass objects and other Scandinavia design works.
I am usually drawn toward a simple pattern of light and shadow, a clear line or –more recently – the magic of certain colour tones. I try to visualize something that is different and personal to me. Mostly, I am moved by a sense of calmness of a place or of a certain moment. It is this sense of tranquility that I try to capture in my photographs.
My father introduced me to photography at an early age. An avid, amateur photographer, he taught me how to set up a makeshift darkroom and how to print my own black and white photographs. I have been using all sorts of cameras and a wide array of makeshift darkrooms ever since.
Originally from Curaçao, I grew up in the Netherlands and finally moved to Nova Scotia in 2003. Although passionate about photography, it did not occur to me to make a career out of it initially. After a long detour – a Bachelors Degree in Art History and Archeology (Leiden University), a Masters in Business Administration (IIB, Delft), a PhD in Business Economics (Rotterdam University) and a career in business – I finally decided to return to photography and close the circle in 1996. I was admitted to a three-year, full-time program in creative photography at the Academy Amsterdam, where I studied from 1996 – 1998.
My photographs have been presented at group exhibitions at Fotogram, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (several exhibitions between 1996 and 1998), Atelier Sömmerling, Cologne, Germany (Young Dutch Photography, September 1998), ViewPoint Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (several group shows and work continuously on display from March 2003 – December 2004) and anderson, gallery of contemporary photography, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (permanent representation from June 2005 - now). In September 2004 ViewPoint Gallery featured my first solo show: first impression – landscape photographs of Nova Scotia. In July 2007, anderson featured my second solo show: Safe Haven, with text by Larry Gaudet. The show coincided with the book launch of Larry Gaudet’s Safe Haven – the Possibility of Sanctuary in an Unsafe World, a non-fiction book published by Random House Canada in the summer of 2007. In September-October 2008, The Sherman Hines Museum of Photography featured Squares, a selection of my square format work and in December 2008 Mohr Interieurs in Vught, The Netherlands hosted IJswater, a winter show, combining a selection of my photographic work with Alvar Aalto glass objects and other Scandinavia design works.