Background of the artists
“Lotte explores the vulnerability of the body and the transience of life play an important role in her work, in which she always searches for the point where beauty meets confrontation.” Lotte has always been interested in portraying awkward bodily conditions, and experiments with double exposure photography, among other things.
“Geert’s work is a poetic, melancholic and romantic version of reality. He encourages the viewer to use his or her own imagination. His work is personal and emotional.” He graduated with the project One Year which his visual representation of a year in his life in which three of his family members deceased. The project gained much attention and has been published in book form as well.
Geert and Lotte both graduated in 2013 from the Photo Academy in Amsterdam, where they’ve met each other. They are active as freelance photographers who work on commission and create their own projects as well.
With this series, Geert and Lotte wanted to visualise the life you go through as a patient, and the huge contradictions between the promises of cure and the actual treatments. That what is meant to heal also breaks you down. "Outside room 8" is about the fucked-up reality in which strength and vulnerability play the lead role and hope is the only constant factor to which one involuntary has to cling.
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