Book of Light_Portrait of My Love Nita Curled Up_Chine Colle Washi Paper with 24k Gold Flakes

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Photographer

Mo Verlaan
Prize

3rd Place / Fine Art/Nudes, 2nd Place / Analog / Film/Fine Art
Jury Top 5 Selection
Company/Studios

Studio Mo Verlaan Photography
Date of Photograph

March 2022/ Washi Print August 2022
Technical Info

Mamiya M645/Kodak T-Max Film Iso400/Baryta Forte Paper/Scanned/Photogravure/Chine Colle Washi Paper
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Website

https://moverlaanphotography.com/newsblog/

Book of Light comprises a series of (self-)portraits based on a handful of images that are only slightly different. However, they each have a different frequency and express a different piece of the greater narrative. Each portrait has gone through a series of individual manipulations. All were developed in the darkroom, printed on unique old papers, some received additional layers while printing. These were digitized and used for photogravures, then printed on delicate washi papers. The portraits came to express different emotions, different moments, a search within the self and the now.

Biography

Mo Verlaan graduated in 2016 from the Foto Academy and continued studying, for a year at Atelier Smedsby in Paris and attended masterclasses in analog photography with Dirk Braeckman and Anders Petersen. Selected for the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency in 2022 and at Chateau du Fresne in 2024. She was awarded with a 2nd and 3rd Prize at IPA and Silver at TIFA 2023 for Nita Curled Up. She was the Overall Winner Single Image with Book of Light at the 19th JM Cameron Award in 2022. The series Undercurrent was Winner of The Photo Award at Mt.Rokko International Photography Festival 2019 in Kobe.
Awards

AWARDS 2023 Winner 2nd Prize Analog / Film-Fine Art at IPA 2023 and Jury Top 5 2023 Winner 3rd Prize Fine Art-Nudes at IPA 2023 2023 Winner 2x Honorable Mention Analog / Film-Fine Art at IPA 2023 2023 Winner Silver Fine Art-Nudes at TIFA 2023, Japan 2023 Winner Honorable Mention at TIFA 2023, Japan 2022 OVERALL Winner Single Image at 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Spain 2022 Winner 2x Category at 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Spain 2022 10x Honorable Mentions at 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Spain 2022 Honorable Mentions at ND Awards 2022, USA 2022 3x Honorable Mentions at IPA 2022, USA 2021 Winner 2nd Prize Category Nude at 16th Julia M Cameron Award, Spain 2021 8x Honorable Mentions at 16th Julia M Cameron Award, Spain 2019 3x Honorable Mentions at ND Awards 2019, USA 2019 6x Honorable Mentions at 14th Julia M Cameron Award, Spain 2019 2x Honorable Mentions at Minimalist Photography Awards, USA 2019 Winner Photo Award at Mt. Rokko International Photo Award, Kobe Japan 2019 4x Honorable Mentions at 13th Julia M Cameron Award 2018 2x Honorable Mentions at International Photography Awards (IPA), USA 2018 Honorable Mention and 3x Finalist at 11th Julia M Cameron Award 2018 2x Nominee Fine Art|Abstract at 4th Fine Art Photography Awards, USA 2017 2x Honorable Mentions at IPA, USA 2017 6x Honorable Mentions at The Monovision Awards, GB 2016 2x Honorable Mentions at Tokyo International Awards, Japan 2016 Winner Single Image Category Architecture at 9th Julia M Cameron Award 2016 Finalist at The Hariban Award, Kyoto Japan EXHIBITIONS May/June 2025 Opening, Installations will be part of Permanent Collection of the new Contemporary Art Museum The Living Archives in Lecce, Italy Oct/Nov/Dec 2024 Exhibition Blank at Chateau du Fresne, France May 2024 Exhibition L'amour c'est toi at Atelier Route Jordaan Dec 2023/Jan 2024 Exhibition Elements of Elusiveness at ZocherLounge 2023 Exhibition Love at Buy my Darlings