The Water Well

• Prize
  Silver in Analog / Film/Portrait
• Photographer
  Margrieta Jeltema
• Technical Info
  Medium Format Analogue, Film
• Photo Date
  oktober 2024

The making of a water well. This summer has been so dry, we were completely without water. To take a "shower" we went to the lake. The plants and the animals suffered. Then at the end of summer there was water from a well, it was magical!

Margrieta was born under Northern skies, in the Netherlands. She has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Italy, Algeria, the Caribbean, Chile, Portugal and Romania. During her biology studies with a major in philosophy at Wageningen (the Netherlands), Margrieta started with a variety of studies in bronze casting, painting, etching and ceramics. Her work embraces poetry, sculpture, but her main creative outlet is photography.