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6 januari 2024

Winner Silver TIFA 2023

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This is what I call a sparkling start of 2024: WINNER TIFA SILVER PRIZE!
The Portrait of My Love Nita Curled Up, a photogravure printed on washi paper with 24k Gold Flakes, has been awarded with Silver at the prestigious Tokyo International Foto Awards in the Category Fine Art/Nude!
Thank you jury of the TIFA 2023.

Please have a lookat the Winners Gallery: https://www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/tokyo/2023/
This Silver award is a true ode to my Love Nita, who passed away a bit more than a year ago now.
Sail on my Silver Girl!
The image Portrait of My Love Nita Curled Up is part of the series Book of Light, which was developed during a Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency.

This portrait of Nita was taken at the former Convitto Palmieri in Lecce for the museum project ‘The Living Archives’ ❤️
Recently this same image had already been awarded twice at the 20th IPA: Winner IPA 2nd Prize Analogue/Fine Art and Winner IPA 3rd Prize Fine Art/Nude.

TIFA WINNER HONORABLE MENTION

… and there is more sparkling news: TIFA Winner of an Honorable Mention!
The image Double Exposure of Nita My Love, a hand printed gelatin silver print on baryta paper, has been awarded with an Honorable Mention at the prestigious Tokyo International Foto Awards in the Category Fine Art/Abstract.
Thank you jury of the TIFA 2023.
Nita My Love’ is part of the series ‘Traces into the Unknown’ in which I investigate the traces of love left behind after losing the love of you life. As memories are slowly changing and or fading, I started digging in the archives 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 Nita.
Trying to find new balance and coping with the loss, I know that working in the darkroom will help to clear my mind and bring back sparks of beauty in my life.

This portrait of Nita was also taken at the former Convitto Palmieri in Lecce for the museum project ‘The Living Archives’ ❤️

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6 november 2023

Exhibition Elements of Elusiveness @Zocherlounge

mo verlaan News / Blog Elements of Elusiveness, exhibition, Fine Art Photography, Mo Verlaan, moverlaanphotography.com

Here it is: the invite for my exhibition ELEMENTS OF ELUSIVENESS!
Vernissage 5th of November 15.00u at The Zochelounge, Bloemendaal.

My dear friend, mentor, photographers and writer Leo Divendal (@divendalleo) will open the exhibition with a small speech.

My photographs will surround the beautiful ceramic objects and jewelry of @henriettemaasen. 
I think our work shall have an interesting communication.


Thank you Ben van der Sluis for inviting me to exhibit at the Zocherlounge, it’s a true honor to see my work at this lovely former little church.

The exhibition runs through till 17th of December.

Thank you @wiesdenouden for Helping me curating the exhibition. 
Hopefully I see you all at the opening 🥂. 

#leodivendal #benvandersluis #zochelounge#henriettemaasen #moverlaan 

#arthaarlem#fineartphotography #fineartexhibition#blackandwhitephotography

#analogphotography #analoguephotography#photogravures #uniqueartwork 

#bookoflight#elementsofelusiveness #darkroom#filmphotography #silvergelatin #silvergelatinprint

In de tentoonstelling Elements of Elusiveness brengt Mo Verlaan twee langlopende projecten samen: de serie met (zelf)portretten Book of Light en de serie portretten van bomen Elusive Nature.
Beide series vertellen het verhaal hoe om te gaan met gebeurtenissen die het leven onomkeerbaar kunnen veranderen. Mo heeft afscheid moeten nemen van haar vrouw, kunstpartner en muze. Fotografie was haar manier om het constante proces van verandering te onderzoeken en nu wijst het haar de weg hoe rouw en verlies te verwerken en te visualiseren. Haar beelden zijn zeer intuïtief, ze komen boven drijven en raken de diepere lagen van ons zijn. Vaak zijn het geabstraheerde uitingen van heftige emoties van snijdende pijn, bevroren angsten en ontroostbare rouw om het verlies. Ze zoeken contact met een andere wereld, een niet aantoonbaar universum, we zijn per saldo gemaakt van sterrenstof en water. Dit schreef haar vrouw Anita in een gedicht aan haar. De schoonheid en de wijsheid van haar vrouw die op de overgang van deze 2 werelden stond, hebben haar geleerd te leren luisteren naar ons lichaam en de natuur te respecteren. Zo volgen de beelden de zoektocht naar het natuurlijke verloop van de dingen, het meanderende ritme van het leven, de broodnodige ruimte in tijd en geest, om vanuit de leegte weer te beginnen met creëren. 

Mo werkt bijna volledig analoog en om de ongrijpbaarheid van de materie tastbaar te maken, drukt zij de foto’s af op hele oude broze fotopapieren. Hierdoor krijgen de werken een universele kracht en een uniek patina van de tijd.
Na het afstuderen aan de Rietveld Academie heeft zij beeldende performances gemaakt en decors voor theatervoorstellingen. Haar liefde voor reizen en koken resulteerde in De Drie Gezusters, een reizende cateraar voor internationale filmploegen. De vergankelijkheid van licht, de vluchtige schoonheid van landschappen, architectuur en mensen brachten haar ertoe intensief te gaan fotograferen. Dat resulteerde in een internationale erkenning en ze heeft recent prijzen gewonnen op de 20the International Photography Award 2023, ze was Overall Winner of the19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award en winnaar van Mt Rokko International Photography Festival 2019 in Kobe, Japan.
Daaruit voortvloeiend volgden internationale exposities in Bazel, Barcelona, Berlijn en Kobe. Op dit moment werkt ze aan een grote fotografische installatie in een voormalig klooster in Lecce, Italië. Het klooster wordt omgebouwd tot een permanent museum voor hedendaagse kunst: The Living Archives.

The exhibition Elements of Elusiveness brings together two large bodies of work: the series with (self-)portraits Book of Light and the series with portraits of trees Elusive Nature.

Both series are new chapters of a continuing story, a follow up on the series Undercurrent and Meander. Undercurrent started at the end of October 2018 as a reaction to the fact that my wife had been diagnosed with cancer. In a single moment our lives were changed, our minds in a muddle, invaded by a thick layer of fog. Our horizon kept shifting and nearly seemed to have collapsed. The unreal uncertainty of losing your loved one felt like walking on very thin ice.

Photographing was, and is, my way of coping, finding images that could visualize my deepest fears. For me the self-portraits and the portraits of my wife Nita from Book of Light and the portraits of trees from Elusive Nature are about the process of learning to listen to our bodies and to respect nature. Following the natural course and rhythm of life, allowing space within us to be empty and leaving it empty, not filling in every little gap in time. We need these blank spaces to begin creating again, to express our roiling emotions. 

Working completely analog, with its slow, tangible and pure character proved to be the right method for Book of Light and Elusive Nature. The tranquil process of printing in the darkroom became soothing and brought peace. Being in the dark room gave me strength, cleared my head and opened up new creative paths. Not having the option of reviewing my work until I developed it brought me in the now. It felt very vulnerable capturing my wife Nita and my own naked body, being confronted with these unguarded moments of ourselves in the darkroom. Using papers decades old, sourced online, brought uncertainty and uniqueness to the process as their response was unpredictable. And yet it resulted in prints where, for me, the individual qualities and textures of the paper greatly enhance the expression of the image. 

These images and this way of working helped me connect to my deepest terrors. More importantly this process invited the unexpected, the surreal surprise into the images suggesting the elusiveness and revelatory nature of life. 

The images were shot using a medium format Mamiya camera and a 35mm Nikon FM3a using old and new stock Kodak Tri-X film and T-Max. They were hand-printed, Silver Gelatin Process, on old photographic paper. 

23 september 2023

Winner 2nd and 3rd Prize @20th IPA Awards

mo verlaan News / Blog moverlaanphotography.com

Total happiness:

2x Awarded at the prestigious 20th International Photography Awards!

Winner IPA 2nd Prize Category Analog/Fine Art

Winner IPA 3rd Prize Category Fine Art/Nude

and Selected in section Top 5 Jury!

Have a look at:

https://photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-1686636389-23

How Wonderfull this Image ‘Book of Light_Portrait of My Love Nita Curled Up_Chine Colle Washi Paper with 24k Gold Flakes’ of my Love Nita has been awarded so generously.

Thank you 20th IPA jury!

Book of Light was developed during a Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency

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23 september 2023

Unseen Book Market

mo verlaan News / Blog Fine Art Photography, Mo Verlaan, moverlaanphotography.com, unseen

UNSEEN BOOKMARKET TABLE 23&24

The Special Edition of Book of Light is a completely handmade artist book with 15 original washi prints.

The book comes in a handmade box with a 20x29cm print on Mitsumata washi paper from the Awagami Factory, famous for their remarkable fine art papers.
The thin washi papers used for the photographs look fragile, but in fact they are so strong and flexible, they can be glued in by hand in the booklet.

This way the photographs can cross seamless from one page to the other.

Edition 8 (+ 2 AP)

© 2023 Mo Verlaan
moverlaanphotography.com

Book of Light was developed during a 
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency
@unseenamsterdam

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11 juni 2023

On my way to Photo Basel

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Nearly on my way @photobasel, who would have thought that 6 months ago? The FotoNostrum Gallery from Barcelona is presenting my work, I’m so thankful.

🙏Julio Hirsch-Hardy

Self-Portrait Nr 6 will be there of course, being the Overall Winner of the 19th JMCA. Hand printed with a chine collé technique on 36gr green Kitakata @awagami paper in an edition of 3. The 23k gold chabin has been affixed on the washi paper flake by flake by me, which makes each print unique.

The making of these self-portraits for Book of Light, posing myself repeatedly in a space of light on a cold floor of the former Convitto Palmieri in Lecce, connected me profoundly to feelings I seem have locked somewhere inside my body, to fears that ebb and flow through me.

That space of light is a moment in time. It is not so much time as told by the clock, though naturally it is the sun creating and minutely altering the shape, revealing my body and casting shadows. That space of light is time as duration, it is time as experienced within us. It can stretch forever and cut short in an instant.

🙏Book of Light was developed during a residency @swatchartpeacehotel

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Self-Portrait Nr6_With Glass Rod_Chine Colle Green Washi with Gold_Nr 4_Gold Edition
4 mei 2023

Feature FotoNostrum Magazine #31

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Thank you @fotonostrum for this beautiful feature of 12 pages long ❤ in the May Issue of the FotoNostrum Magazine #31.

The exhibition of the Winners of the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award runs through May 7th at the FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona.  

@moverlaan #fotonostrummagazine  #fotonostrum #fotonostrumgallery #swatchartpeacehotel#bookoflight #juliamargaretcameronawards #silvergelatin #photopolymer #altprocess #fineartphotography #bnw#nlinspain #dutchculture #mo❤nita

28 april 2023

Publication Grant @cultuurfonds

mo verlaan News / Blog As The Magic Hour Shifts, Cultuurfonds, Elisabeth Vermaat Müller Fonds, Fine Art Photography, Mo Verlaan, moverlaanphotography.com, Photobook, Prins Bernard Cultuur Fonds, Publication Grant

GOOD NEWS, I’m so proud and happy to share this incredible news with you.

The joint Art Book ‘As The Magic Hour Shifts’, I had been working so hard on with Anita, has been awarded with a Grant for Publication from the Prins Bernard @cultuurfonds. 

The grant comes from a special fund: Elisabeth Vermaat Müller Fonds.

This fund is especially for female artists who are working on a promising project or publication in which several art forms are being combined.

In our case my photography and Anita’s collages, poetry and stories will come together.

And somehow Anita’s voice will be part of the book.

Follow the developments of the book on @moverlaan. 

Thank you #cultuurfonds for awarding ‘As The Magic Hour Shifts’ so generously. 

 #artistbook #photobook #mo❤nita #photographybook #moverlaan #anitavoorham 

#as-the-magic-hour-shifts #magichour #collage #collageart 

#poetry #bnwphotography #analog #analogphotography

18 april 2023

Exhibition of the Winners 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award

mo verlaan News / Blog Fine Art Photography, Mo Verlaan, moverlaanphotography.com

OPENING NIGHT April 20th @fotonostrum 

Overall Winner Single Image of the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award For Women Photographers

Exhibition at FotoNostrum The Mediterranean House of Photography located in the heart of Barcelona.

Come and join me at the vernissage of my Solo Exhibition at Gallery FotoNostrum and the beautiful work of all the Winners!

Exhibition runs from 21th of April till 4th of May 2023.

Special thanks to FotoNostrum and the Judge Barbara Davidson, Guggenheim Fellow, 3 x Pulitzer Prize, and Emmy award-winning photographer, for granting my work so generously.

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE HONOR TO BE SELECTED AS THE OVERALL WINNER SINGLE IMAGE PRO OF 19TH JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARD!

Have a look at the results of the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award.

My work will be represented by the Gallery FotoNostrum for a whole year!

And my work will be represented by FotoNostrum at ARTSY.

Special thanks to The Dutch Embassy at Madrid for supporting this trip so generously. @nlinspain #nlinspain

Thank you @swatchartpeacehotel for the residency during which the series Book of Light was developed.

❤️ #swatchartpeacehotel

Thank you @alecvonbargen_studio and #thelivingarchives for everything:) ❤️ 

9 april 2023

Buy My Darlings Photo Event @NDSM Fuse

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How wonderful is this:

To be one of the 40 photographers selected for the-nicest-art-selling-events-of-Amsterdam

BUY MY DARLINGS, The Love Edition💕 April 15 & 16 at NDSM Fuse

Come and join me at the BUY MY DARLINGS de LOVE edition!

↓ Visit the event (free admission) ↓

BUY MY DARLINGS is open to the public from 10 to 5 pm 

NDSM-Fuse op het NDSM-terrein in Amsterdam Noord (NDSM-Plein 29).

Every 15 minutes you can take the ferry from Amsterdam CS, parking available for €1,40 on NDSM.


3 december 2022

OVERALL WINNER SINGLE IMAGE 19th JM CAMERON AWARD

mo verlaan News / Blog Category Winner Alternative Processes 19th JMC Award, Category Winner Nude 19th JMC Award, moverlaanphotography.com, Winner 19th Julia M Cameron Award, Winner Overall Single Image Professional 19th JMCA

This news is so wonderful:

The Self-Portraits of the series Book of Light have been awarded with an amazing prize:

The Overall Winner Single Image Professional at the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for women photographers.

Four Winning Women Photographers of the Year, will have a fully-paid solo exhibition at FotoNostrum in Barcelona in April 2023.

Juried by Barbara Davidson, 3x Pulitzer Prize, Guggenheim Fellow, winner of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award

Thank you Barbara Davidson for choosing my work!

Besides the Overall Winner Single Image, the work was also Winner of 2 Categories and awarded with 10 Honorable Mentions:

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