1st place
gold star award
Cheraine Collette
netherlands 
Photo © Cheraine Collette
title
Where Is Adam?
But over time, humans grew further apart from the animals.
In this series we wonder how things could have been if we didn’t leave paradise,
is there still a way to return?
Is there a way to create a new?
Will we find a way?
The model, landscape, and animals(in their natural habitat from a safe distance) are photographed separately and form the elements for each composition. The photographs are united by digital manipulation,usually by many hours/days of hand-drawn digital/painting.
The Fotovakschool University of Applied Photography.
Cheraine is an emerging international award-winning fine art photographer, by combining
contemporary photography and new perspectives of the natural world with digital painting and photo manipulation, with a focus on capturing the world’s beauty and oneness.
Cheraine’s work covers every aspect of photographic production, from photographing- to
manipulating and digitally painting her images.
In her photography, you will often find fauna, which she has photographed in their own natural habitat, to make the audience more aware that fauna can be left in peace for the final photograph. Essentially, she creates imaginary worlds from scratch. Composed of photographed parts of nature and locations across the globe.
The Photographs contain real elements and traces of reality. Its location is undefinable, and by long labor of collecting and unifying different photographs, it unveils an imaginary reality.
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entry description
In the beginning we all lived peacefully together in a place called paradise.But over time, humans grew further apart from the animals.
In this series we wonder how things could have been if we didn’t leave paradise,
is there still a way to return?
Is there a way to create a new?
Will we find a way?
The model, landscape, and animals(in their natural habitat from a safe distance) are photographed separately and form the elements for each composition. The photographs are united by digital manipulation,usually by many hours/days of hand-drawn digital/painting.
about the photographer
Cheraine Collette, born in the Netherlands, graduated in 2015 in Photographic Design atThe Fotovakschool University of Applied Photography.
Cheraine is an emerging international award-winning fine art photographer, by combining
contemporary photography and new perspectives of the natural world with digital painting and photo manipulation, with a focus on capturing the world’s beauty and oneness.
Cheraine’s work covers every aspect of photographic production, from photographing- to
manipulating and digitally painting her images.
In her photography, you will often find fauna, which she has photographed in their own natural habitat, to make the audience more aware that fauna can be left in peace for the final photograph. Essentially, she creates imaginary worlds from scratch. Composed of photographed parts of nature and locations across the globe.
The Photographs contain real elements and traces of reality. Its location is undefinable, and by long labor of collecting and unifying different photographs, it unveils an imaginary reality.
back to gallery
