ELIZABETH ALDERLIESTEN 
Dordrecht, 1972

“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length - and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.” 
― Carlos Castaneda, The teachings of Don Juan.

BIO

Elizabeth Alderliesten is a Dutch photographer who graduated from the Photoacademy in Amsterdam in 2019, has a background as an interior designer and lives and works in Santpoort Zuid, a small village near Amsterdam. This year she is taking a master class at Machiel Botman.

FRESH EYES Photo selected her as one of the 100 best emerging photography talents in Europe of this year. She is also featured in GUP New Photo Talent 2020. Her first solo exhibition is postponed due to Covid-19 until december 2020.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Her photographs are images in themselves rather than images of something. She sees them as free and poetic visual rhymes that may elicit stories in the viewer’s imagination. The transition from one moment to the next in which the viewer uses his fantasy to feel what the next moment will be.

Time is an important factor in her images, but also in her work process. The delay that occurs by mostly shooting images analog, but also the magic the process evokes. Moments of imaginative transformation in which no action takes place.

In an intuitive way she collect images, mostly on analog film. The negative is her starting point from which she shapes her images. The real interpretation of the image takes place during printing in the darkroom or while  manipulating the digitized negative on the screen.

Combining old and new processes stimulates her to research more deeply. Materiality within that plays an important role.