3rd place
bronze star award
Lansink Margaret
netherlands
title
Fear no more
In “fear no more”, I have put aside my old habits. I have faced my deepest emotions. Picture by picture I broke down the fences of my fears. I dared to accept life and love. Photography became an essential necessity; via my images discovering who I really am.
Although the origin is personal, I strongly believe that there's a universal element to it as in today's society we all try to paint pretty pictures and thereby drift further & further away from our true selves.
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entry description
This series is from my book dummy Fear no more. A project developed during my participation of this year's Masterclass with Klavdij Sluban and Nestan Nijaradze in Paris. All images are shot with different analogue camera's on different kind of films.The book contains 55 images, mostly black&white, some color. This is my book statement: For as long as I can remember I had this feeling of being out of place. My presence didn’t truly matter. So I tried to be as cheerful and happy as I could be. Colouring my life for the outside world to over-compensate for my true inner feelings. Until ten years ago, when my physics surrendered and forced me into a confrontation with myself.In “fear no more”, I have put aside my old habits. I have faced my deepest emotions. Picture by picture I broke down the fences of my fears. I dared to accept life and love. Photography became an essential necessity; via my images discovering who I really am.
Although the origin is personal, I strongly believe that there's a universal element to it as in today's society we all try to paint pretty pictures and thereby drift further & further away from our true selves.
about the photographer
Margaret received a BA from the PhotoAcademy in Amsterdam. She also participated the year-long program of LeMasterklass of Klavdij Sluban and Nestan Nijaradze in Paris. In the past years she has exhibited her work in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Leiden, Vancouver, New York, Arles, UK, Lithuania, Japan and in her old hometown of Oldenzaal. Her work has been awarded the Dutch New Talent 2013, the Big Print Photo contest Amsterdam in 2015, Bronze Star Award for fine art book at ND Awards in 2016. In 2018 her series ‘Borders of Nothingness was part of @FOTOFILMIC18 Shortlist show and of Reclaim Photography Festival Wolverhampton UK. In 2016 she has been rewarded with an AIR of the Kaunas Gallery in Lithuania and in 2017 of Shiro Oni Studio in Japan; both for her on-going project ‘the Art of Empathy’, which book will be released in 2019 in collaboration with Kaunas Gallery. Additionally, she often coaches young photographers in developing their signature and portfolio.back to gallery