Conceptual nominee

An empty pool, a silvery creature floating at the top; is she escaping from something or re-joining her natural surroundings? There’s a feeling of lightness and freedom from gravity when you are in the water, but this picture has heaviness to its emptiness. Yet it is saturated at the same time.
I don’t particularly enjoy water so my pictures are the reflections of my childhood – the fears I had often show up in my pictures.

Of Dutch heritage, the photographer Aimée Hoving was born in 1978 in Belgium, before settling in Switzerland at an early age.
Aimée Hoving studied at the ECAL and obtained a BA in visual communication with a specialization in photography.
She has participated in several international group exhibitions such as the National Portrait Gallery, London, and has been granted the Swiss Design Award and won the Leenards Foundation Award. Her works are part of the permanent collection of the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. She has been part of Critical Mass top 50 in 2018 and won the PDN face portrait photography contest, and also won the Juror’s Award for Environmental Portraits, curated by Elizabeth Avedon. Aimée has worked for many magazines, including: Wallpaper, Liberation, Vogue Japan, Les Echos Dimanche, Die Weltwoche, and Encore.