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Geralda de Graaf is a Visual Artist and Fine Art Streetphotographer based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
She studied Textile Art and followed the Dutch academy of Photography (Fotoacademie). Geralda is passionated wandering the streets and catch the moments, capture them with an eye for visual forms, rhyme and shadow. Her style authentic, sometimes graphic, sometimes poetic. 'How can an image evoke inspiration, when we may not know the person in the picture and have never traveled to where the photo was taken? My goal is to inspire those to look more carefully at the world around them to discover beauty in unusual places'.
In addition to streetphotography, she also makes autonomous work mostly short stories with a poetic touch. This can be with the camera or through mixed media, handmade collages. The technique she uses is collecting, organizing, structuring, documenting and reconstructing her own or found images. Through the medium of collage she combines paper, old photos, textiles and pencil into a new image with an intended or unintended story.
Geralda is co-founder of Street Avengers, an international streetphotography collective, and moderator of their instagram account. She also a member of CBK (Centrum Beeldende Kunst) and Kunstwerkt in Rotterdam, and KunstinBeeld
'De Graaf takes a big pleasure in photographing everyday life, details and city perspectives that's right in front of you -but sometimes hard to see when hurrying past it'. -Uppsala fotofestival-
EXHIBITIONS and Other:
Upcoming 2025:
- Social Glue collage festival
- Artist in Residence, Ireland
2024:
- Nieuwe Impuls, Art Center Schiedam, January 11 - February 4th
- The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Women in Photography, group-exhibition March 5 - 30th
- The StreetSoup Gallery, Milano, Humans group-exhibition March
- Studio Cool, Rotterdam, duo exhibition April 14 - June 27th
- Co-founder and exhibitor Go West, Visual and Urban arts, Rotterdam Art-route, Rotterdam May 24 - 27th
- Art Center Schiedam Over fotografie September 5 - 26th
2023
- The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Masters of Streetphotography, group-exhibition November 11- December 23th
- Collage exhibition, Artcenter Schiedam, September 28 - October 25th
- Co-founder and exhibitor Go West, Visual and Urban arts, Rotterdam Art-route May 12, 13 & 14
- Participant group exhibition 'In your face' during Art Rotterdam February 9 -12th
2022
- Grand award winner with the series Palette Paris International Street Photo Awards, PISPA.
- Honorable mention BNW single shot PISPA
- Italy, Treviso photographicfestival September 6 - 25th https://www.trevisophotographicfestival.it/
- Sweden, Uppsala Fotofestival September 21 - 25th https://uppsalafotofestival.se/
- Founder and participant window-exhibition 25 artists | New West, Rotterdam 31 March - 16th April (made possible by Cultuur Concreet)
- Co-organizer Art for Rotterdam, art auction.
2021
- Ode to a Park, solo exhibition Het Park, 16th September - 14th October Rotterdam (made possible by a donation of Stichting Droom en Daad)
2020
- Honorable mention streetphotoawards.art>Paris International Photo Awards, PISPA
- Group Exhibition Dutch Photomuseum
- Masterclass Tall stories: Serie Nightwatch
2019
- Group Exhibition Praxis Photoartcenter Mineapolis July/Aug https://www.praxisphotocenter.org/cfe-temp-gallery
- Best of the week (BOW) 1415mobilephotographers, Italy
2017
- Exhibition, solo, Rotterdam.Photo during Artweek Rotterdam
- Exhibition of Assignments for the Stadsarchief Rotterdam
2016
- Exhibition, solo, Rotterdam.Photo during Artweek Rotterdam
Earlier:
- Group exhibition Pinhole, Las Palmas, Rotterdam
- Exhibition Streetphotography World, Groene Passage, Rotterdam
- Exhibition and publication Mijn volkstuin, Erfgoedhuis Zuid Holland
- Group exhibition Panorama Rotterdam, Museum Rotterdam
- Group exhibition Samen Rotterdam Bewaren, Fotomuseum Rotterdam
PHOTOWALLS permanent:
- Prinsenhof Building, Prinses Beatrixlaan 512, tower A6 and B1,the Hague
- Photowall, commissioned by municipality Rotterdam/Stadswinkel IJsselmonde
Publications Print
- Book: Undesirable Plants
- Docu Book Vol.4 Best of Documentary & Street Photography 2022
- Photozine (self published, by donation of Stichting Droom en Daad): Ode to a Park 2021
- Light Journal Magazine New York, fall edition Wisdom 2018
- The Phonographer Magazine, interview #2 2018
Publications Digital/Online/Movie
- Dutchstreetmagazine.com
- Participant in the documentary 'Niet te filmen' by Tako Bolt
- Digifotostarter.nl
- Fotoexpositie.nl
- Vivaoclique.com
- Ifthenisnow.eu
- fotografarpalavras.blogspot.com