DESCRIPTION
Nocturnal is a lengthy project I am still working on.
The inspiration for this series was not accidental. These works originate from a fraught family history in which there was often the search for tranquility and security. A significant memory from my childhood involved a game I used to play with my dolls (my girls). I would bury them in the ground in our backyard. I fantasized that my girls escaped to another place.The serenity of this game resonated again for me when I encountered the work of the Flemish Primitives during my art studies.
These adolescent girls escaped to a empty place where it is quiet and dark. Melancholy is mingled with the loss of innocence, the children seem to have become adults.
AUTHOR
Flokje van Lith (1969, Leiden, the Netherlands) studied photography at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague.
In her work she explores childhood and its underlying traumas and issues as well as the beauty of innocence and adolescence. Her contemporary portraits have been edited with utmost care and precision to create paint-like images.
Awards: Honorable Mention, Portrait/ Professional, International Color Awards 2015, Silver Award, Fine-Art/ Professional, International Photography Awards 2014, Silver Award, Fine-Art/ Professional, PX3-Prix de la Photographie, Paris, 2014, 8 Honorable Mention, Fine-Art/ Professional, International Photography Award 2014, New Dutch Photography Talent 2013, 4 Honorable Mention, Fine-Art/ Professional, International Photography Award 2013, 4 Honorable Mention, Photography Masters Cup 2011,
7 Honorable Mention, Fine-Art/ Professional, International Photography Award 2011.
Exhibitions, Selection, 2015, KunstRAI, PAN Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Pulse Miami (USA) 2014, Affordable Art Fair Hamburg (Germany), PAN Amsterdam, Affordable Art Fair, Raw Art Fair, Realisme (the Netherlands), 2013 LXRY, PAN Amsterdam, Affordable Art Fair, (the Netherlands), 2012, Art Wynwood Miami, Art Miami Context, Photoville (USA), PAN Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 2011, Scope Miami (USA), PAN Amsterdam, Photofestival Naarden (the Netherlands). Publications: 2015, PF Magazine, LXRY, 2014, Art Photo Feature (USA), 2013, Gooi Eemlander, 2012, Volkskrant Magazine, Telegraaf, Haarlems Dagblad (the Netherlands)
