theme: encounters

Every season, at the end of the course block, we organise a photo exhibition as a finale to our photography courses.
The theme the teachers have decided on this season is: encounters

Jury selection

From all the submissions a jury will choose 10 works to be exhibited in the CREA hall for an entire course block. From this selection, a jury and public favourite will also be chosen, which will be exhibited for longer in large format. The photographers of the favourite works will also receive a CREA day course (in block 2 or 3 of season 2024-2025) of their choice!

​Voting

There are two ways in which you can cast your vote for the public favourite:

• Use the poll: below you can find the selected pictures. Use the poll widget to cast your vote for your favourite photograph.
• Instagram stories: pick your favourite in our Insta-stories  (will be posted on Thursday 19 December 15:00 hrs)​.

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Public favourite

When two paths cross in Jaipur

by Emma Gaglianone

Emma took the Photography Basics course by Marzia Cosenza.

Jury favourite

Encounters

by Chenlin Tang

​Chenlin took the From Snapshot to Art course by Rogier Alleblas.

Jury report: A photographic delight where the viewer’s gaze keeps moving.
The first thing you think is: what a timing! Because this photo could not have been taken at a better time. Besides, it is a strong composition and framing in which the extraordinary lighting also stands out: nothing is too dark or too light without totally losing its power. It is a clean image in which living creatures, an object and graphic elements balance each other nicely. The cats and the bowler hat play the leading roles.

In the process, the three viewing points make the picture an extremely enjoyable looking experience that you can’t get enough of as a viewer: your gaze is sent around the image again and again. The cat on the ground sends you via the floating bowler hat to the cat at the top left, which sends your gaze down again where you unexpectedly find a third hairy spectator in the bottom corner, which in turn sends your gaze back into the picture.

Not to mention the surprise of the magically floating bowler hat that gives the whole a surreal touch, as if the Belgian painter Magritte himself had whispered some tips to the photographer.

Jury

Our jury made a selection of 10 pictures from all the submissions from this course block, from which they themselves chose a jury favourite and from which the audience may choose an public favourite.

We hereby introduce our panel:

Çiğdem Yüksel

photographer/visual artist

​Çiğdem Yüksel is a Turkish-Dutch photographer and visual artist. She began her career in photography at the Volkskrant newspaper. In 2017, she won the prestigious Silver Camera award for her portrait series of Syrian child refugees working in textile and shoe factories in Turkey. In her work, Yüksel focuses on the influence of photography on our collective memory. At the heart of Yüksel’s work lies a deep connection with the people she portrays. Her creative process leads to photo and video works, interactive installations, podcasts, textile works and publications.

Currently, her work (photo/video/sound) can be seen in the exhibition Je Moest Eens Weten. With this first major solo exhibition, Yüksel highlights the lives and stories of the first generation of women from Turkey in the Netherlands, a group often underexposed in Dutch history. Çiğdem is known for her personal involvement and her innovative approach to social issues.

> Exhibition of Cigdem Yuksel in Nederlands fotomuseum
> Check Het Uur van de Wolf op NPO Start

Dennis van Galen

CREA director

Dennis has been the director of CREA since the end of 2019. He was previously head of artistic affairs at Adelheid Roosen’s dynamic theatre organisation and before that, he was director of Youth Theatre Hofplein in Rotterdam and even managed to get a youth performance to Lowlands.

Art education is a connecting factor in his career. For instance, he was artistic director of the Theatre teacher programme at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance. Dennis was a (guest) teacher at various conservatoires, theatre schools in the Netherlands and abroad, the Dutch Film Academy, and worked as an art consultant for a contemporary art gallery in Sydney, Australia. 

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1. Graffiti Friend by Antonio Mariño
2. Encounter in Berlin by Céline Dietz
3. Encounters by Chenlin Tang
4. When two paths cross in Jaipur by Emma Gaglianone
5. Encounters by Isaäc Vos
6. Enlightened by Laura Jackson
7. Wild meets City by Laura van Santen
8. Romance bij de Patatboer tussen de Hoeren by Lorin de Heer
9. Foreshore/Voorland by Mirjam de Swart
10. Encounter of the Unknown by Nalini Heinmüller

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