honorable mention
Inge van Mill netherlands
title
Ashura in the west
“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
The day of Ashura is marked by Muslims as a whole, but for Shia Muslims it is a major religious commemoration of the martyrdom at Karbala of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Shia men and women dressed in black, men are slapping their chests and chanting, women are quiet and crying. In The Hague in The Netherlands on the 7th of September 2019 a lecture is given by an imam and after that the ritual took place.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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