Honorable Mention TIFA 2023 Fine Art / Abstract

Traces Into The Unknown_Double Exposure of Nita My Love Nr 1_Ilford Fb Mg Warm Paper

  • Photographer
    Mo Verlaan
  • Agency / Studio
    Studio Mo Verlaan Photography
  • Technical Info
    Nikon Fm3a/kodak T-max Film Iso400/ Double Exposure/ Ilford Fb Mg Paper
  • Photo Date
    April 2022/ Printed December 2022

Nita My Love' is part of the series ‘Traces into the Unknown’ in which Mo investigates the traces of love left behind after losing the love of her life. As memories are slowly changing and or fading, Mo starts digging in her archive of images trying to understand and visualize how feelings of love can still be so incredible strong, overwhelming and vivid, even without the physical presence of her love Nita. Trying to find new balance and coping with the loss, she knows that working in the darkroom will help to clear her mind and bring back sparks of beauty in her life.

Mo Verlaan graduated in 2016 from the Foto Academy and continued studying, for a year at Atelier Smedsby in Paris and attended masterclasses in analog photography with Dirk Braeckman and Anders Petersen. Selected for the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Virtual Residency. Recently she was the Overall Winner Single Image with Book of Light at the 19th JM Cameron Award in 2022. The series Undercurrent was Winner of The Photo Award at The Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival 2019 in Kobe. Past 4 years Mo and her wife Anita Voorham have been working on their joint art book As The Magic Hour Shifts.