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In my portraits I am looking for honesty and vulnerability. I believe that vulnerability makes us nicer human beings and that this makes the world a little more friendly and more understanding I am most fascinated when I can see opposite qualities of a person at the same moment.

Awards

World Photo Annual

2023

Honorable Mention

Portrait

Professional

DAulight

In my portraits I am looking for honesty and vulnerability. I believe that vulnerability makes us nicer human beings and that this makes the world a little more friendly and more understanding I am most fascinated when I can see opposite qualities of a person at the same moment.

About Artist

Susanne Middelberg

Susanne is a professional dancer, photographer and actress. She completed her dance education at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem (now Artez). After that she studied photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where she graduated in 1998. Susanne specializes in portrait photography, theater and dance photography. For her photography Susanne has received over 30 national and international awards including the Canon Master, 1st Place International Photography Awards and several awards at Px3 She exhibited at Soho Photo Gallery, New York with her Wonder Woman series. Susanne exposed her portraits at the Fence in Boston. In 2021 her work was exhibited at the HeadOn Photo Festival on Sydney's Bondi Beach and at the Photo Festival in Pelt. She has also exhibited at Deelen Art in Rotterdam, Reflex Modern Art Gallery in Amsterdam, Smelijk en Stokking and the Hollandsche Maagd Gallery in Gouda and Fontana Fortuna Gallery in Amsterdam. “For me, making a portrait of a person means coming into contact with that person. It makes me happy to search for an honest image, a unique and intense portrait together with the other person, which can only arise through our contact at that moment. I look for raw simplicity.”

Susanne Middelberg

Photographic Areas of Focus

Fine Art, Portrait

Location

Netherlands

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