honorable mention
Marieke Berkelaar netherlandsPhoto © Marieke Berkelaar
title
to the Mall
The combination of the nostalgia that analog photography brings and her passion for the past takes you back in time. In recent years, Marieke has mainly focused on capturing a piece of history. Old cemeteries and buildings. She wants the viewer to wonder what happened. Wants to unravel the how, what, and why behind the photo and feel the melancholy. She has chosen a subject that is close to her heart and that should never be forgotten.
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entry description
A department store in eastern Germany that is completely built in Art Nouveau style. It opened its doors in 1913 and unfortunately had to close in 2009. Since then, the building has been lonely and abandoned.about the photographer
Marieke Berkelaar is a photographer and graphic designer from Leerdam, the Netherlands. As a little girl she walked around with a photo camera in her hands. The bookcases full of photo albums are proof of this. These albums tell you the most diverse stories. And you can still see that in her photos, she likes to start a dialogue. In her twenties she became acquainted with analogue photography and a new love was born.The combination of the nostalgia that analog photography brings and her passion for the past takes you back in time. In recent years, Marieke has mainly focused on capturing a piece of history. Old cemeteries and buildings. She wants the viewer to wonder what happened. Wants to unravel the how, what, and why behind the photo and feel the melancholy. She has chosen a subject that is close to her heart and that should never be forgotten.
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