honorable mention
Inge van Mill netherlands
Photo © Inge van Mill
title
Love of the Macaques
“Through my journalistic & artistic background I observe the world in which we coexist. Subjects I approach on content and with feeling, to be able to unravel our complex society and visualise this, encompassing it in all her layers. I search for the area of tension in which everything comes together: the surprise of the unexpected is my motive. I hope to touch and surprise my audience with my work.
To observe my surroundings has fascinated me since childhood. My curiosity takes me to places undiscovered by myself; it is an intrinsic driving force which fuels me. In my projects I reflect on what I see and that which occupies me, in which society is a constant source of inspiration. Reoccurring themes are: reality versus illusion, vulnerability as strength, the internal and external world and inequality in society.
What are the effects of our performance driven culture and commerce on our collective awareness and us as individuals? These mechanisms I strive to weather. I grew up in a western society where focus lies on materialism and appearance and where the inner realm with her senses, thoughts and feelings usually becomes viewed as being of minor importance. Through my projects I search for that inner world, exactly those areas where both worlds collide and fuse.
Van Mill got acquainted with photography through her father at a young age. At Sint Lucas in Boxtel, an art school for the creative industry, her interest in photography developed further, in 1998 she graduated and continued her education at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, where she graduated in 2002.
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entry description
Japan. Awaji Island. 28th of April 2018. A Macaques family is sitting close to each other in the Awajishima monkey forest. This forest is located at the Kashiwara mountain in Sumoto city on Awaji Island. In this place are living about 300 Macaques monkeys. Aside from humans, the Macaques are the most widespread primate genus around the world. Macaques have a very intricate social structure and hierarchy.about the photographer
Inge van Mill (1976, The Hague, the Netherlands) has been a professional photographer / photojournalist for nineteen years. She is also an artist and has recently started making documentaries.“Through my journalistic & artistic background I observe the world in which we coexist. Subjects I approach on content and with feeling, to be able to unravel our complex society and visualise this, encompassing it in all her layers. I search for the area of tension in which everything comes together: the surprise of the unexpected is my motive. I hope to touch and surprise my audience with my work.
To observe my surroundings has fascinated me since childhood. My curiosity takes me to places undiscovered by myself; it is an intrinsic driving force which fuels me. In my projects I reflect on what I see and that which occupies me, in which society is a constant source of inspiration. Reoccurring themes are: reality versus illusion, vulnerability as strength, the internal and external world and inequality in society.
What are the effects of our performance driven culture and commerce on our collective awareness and us as individuals? These mechanisms I strive to weather. I grew up in a western society where focus lies on materialism and appearance and where the inner realm with her senses, thoughts and feelings usually becomes viewed as being of minor importance. Through my projects I search for that inner world, exactly those areas where both worlds collide and fuse.
Van Mill got acquainted with photography through her father at a young age. At Sint Lucas in Boxtel, an art school for the creative industry, her interest in photography developed further, in 1998 she graduated and continued her education at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, where she graduated in 2002.
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