Astrid Verhoef
Astrid is a free-lance and fine art photographer based in Amsterdam. She also works as a graphic designer and producer of Dutch photography exhibitions, she has organized shows in New York, Amsterdam, Leiden and Tokyo. She has established succesfull colaborations with Photoville New York, Fotofestival Naarden, Dupho and International Photo Festival Leiden.
Her work has been exhibited across the glode, including: Head On Photo Festival (Sydney), Photoville (New York), United PhotoIdustries’ (Super)Heroes exhibition at the Manhattan Bridge, Gaffa Gallery (Sydney),DUMBO Arts (New York), Sirius Gallery (Tokyo) , and IJFFF Photo- & Film festival (Amsterdam). She was chosen by GUP Magazine as New emerging Dutch Photo Talent 2013.
Astrid’s work was purchased by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and was published by Aesthetica Magazine (UK), Cultura Colectiva (MX), Australian Photography Magazine (AUS), New Dawn (NL), Metro New York, De Fotograaf (NL), Artworks Amsterdam, Art Takes Miami, Fonk Magazine(NL), and Internationale Kunst Heute 2016 (DE).
She won Silver at New York Photo Festival’s Resolution 2014, and the Black and White Spider Awards in 2016, nominated at the 9th Annual Color Awards the same year.
Astrid Verhoef stages scenes that verge on the surreal. Placing individuals and objects where they don’t seem to belong, moving the familiar into an unfamiliar landscape, her photographs seem to recontextualise normality. Juxtaposing human and object, Astrid examines identity and emotion in relation to modern society versus natural spaces.
“Questioning the boundaries between the real and the surreal, a profound
interpretation of life emerges.”
Aesthetica Magazine(UK)
