Giara's photolog

A photographic journey

22.1.12

France, Pas de Calais, Maroeuil, December 31, 2011

Te kust en te keur
Strandcabientjes van De Panne tot Zeebrugge, by Yvette Depaepe en Susanne Stoop.
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Giara: Many of Susanne Stoop ‘s photos are dark and brooding, expressing a bleak look into the void, a primal fear and melancholy. She searches for the absurd, the surreal. She prefers to make her pictures in black and white and only uses colour if it essential for the photo. Her themes are: portraits of windows, portraits of people, portraits of empty chairs, beach cabins, street photography and conceptual photography. The Italian city Ferrara is important theme. The photographs she took over there are based on the novels of the Italian author Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000). He tells a melancholic story about exclusion, isolation, closed doors, desolation, loneliness, existential fears. Susanne worked seven years on this project and has now published a book called “The Ferrara Streetbook. A walk in the footsteps of Giorgio Bassani”. Since 2008 she had various exhibitions and won some prizes in an international photocontest. Besides working in her home town, The Hague, Amsterdam and other Dutch cities, Susanne worked in Poland, Israel, Norway, Italy, Belgium, Romania and Berlin. Susanne (1945) was born in Vlaardingen – near Rotterdam. She now lives in Leiden.