Fine Art nominee

For a split second, light illuminates the brilliance of the ordinary existence of things; it exalts and then vanishes within an instant.

To me light is both a tangible and evanescent medium, if not a language. By fading, shading, moulding and carving the light in my photographs, I try to transform reality and go beyond into an imaginative and intuitive realm. A dreamy meeting point of the palpable, the material, the evocative and the subconscious. My process involves composing layered images that nearly look like drawings, scraping off the innate realism that is embedded in photography, thus creating a twilight zone that enables me and the viewer to traverse into a more sensitive and subliminal world.

After graduating from the Rietvelt Art Academy, Mo Verlaan (1963) started out in experimental theatre, creating sets on location as well as performing. Her love for travelling and cooking made Mo found the company De Drie Gezusters catering to (inter)national filmcrews from a converted truck. The passion for photography made her enter the Photo Academy. She graduated in 2016 with a joint exhibition and her first book Resonance was launched.

Finalist Hariban Award 2016, Kyoto
Series Resonance selected for The Indian Photography Festival 2016, Hyderabad
Winner Single Image at The 9th Julia M Cameron Award 2016 4th Berlin Foto Biennale
Resonance selected for SCAN Photobooks 2016 Exhibition, Tarragona and for the Royal Photographic Society Photobook Exhibition, London
Portfolio selected for publication in NEW2017, 100 New Dutch Photography Talents
Group exhibition Edition at the Tripp Gallery, London
Solo exhibition Solo in Dos at Restaurant Dos, Amsterdam
Group exhibition IN THE ZONE | B&W Photography at the 1650 Gallery, LA USA
2 Honorable Mentions at the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2016 Japan
4 Honorable Mentions at The Monochrome Awards 2016 USA
6 Honorable Mentions at The Monovision Photography Awards 2017 GB
2 Honorable Mentions at the International Photography Awards 2017 USA