Artist: Sonja de Ridder

Stretch, 2022.

Canson Fibra Rag print, size 95x65cm, mounted dibond with black wooden frame, size 100x70m, edition of 5 (+ 1 A.P.).

Sonja de Ridder (1975) studied from 1993 at the Academy of Arts (Arnhem) and from 2006 the Academy of Photography (Amsterdam). Her series ‘Painted Photography’ is her search for the borders of those two disciplines: painting and photography. The handwriting of the brush versus the anonymity of digital photography, the slowness of oilpaint versus the speed of the camera. With painting a glasswall with oilpaint, during posing of a model behind that glass, she is creating a bridge between those two disciplines.

Awards
2012 NEW dutch photography talent, GUP-magazine
2008 PANL-award#18 best of members
2007 PANL-award#17 silver