Una Terra Sacra

• Photographer
  Margrieta Jeltema
• Agency / Studio
  Margrieta Jeltema
• Prize
  Bronze in Book / Fine Art
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.margrij.com

The rural people in Tuscia, work their land as they always did All small gestures reflect an ancient culture. The countryside and the town itself are full of ancient mysteries. The volcanic lake draws the stars close to the beaches so everyone can touch them. Etruscan souls sleep in the vine yards. Their songs can be heard at night, when the nightingales sing between the cypress trees. There is a resonance between this and other worlds. A memory of eternal ideas persists and keeps the land in it’s embrace. It’s kiss a sacred seal.

• Biography
  Margrieta was born under Northern skies, in the Netherlands. She has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Italy, Algeria, the Caribbean, Chile, Portugal and Romania. During her biology studies with a major in philosophy at Wageningen (the Netherlands), Margrieta started with a variety of studies in bronze casting, painting, etching and ceramics. Her work embraces poetry, sculpture, but her main creative outlet is photography.  Loving and using anything analogue from 35mm to a wholeplate camera. You can find her photography books here: www.margrij.com/dagdroombookseditions.
• Awards
  Shotz Magazine (Folio edition), the Photo Review, Seities publications, Black & White Photography Magazine published her Fine Art and her street photographs as well as her albumen prints and in the August 2021 issue a series in the excellence awards. "My Heart of Glass",“The Shaded Gardens of Bucharest” and “a Chinese Mother in Italy” were published in Dodho online magazine. Via Fotonostrum photographs are for sale as well on artsy.net. Her book “The Taste of Tears” received a Gold medal in the Prix de la Photography (P x 3). This book is for sale on Fotofilmic (Canada). The book is also for sale on this website. The series "Mille Gigli" and with "Una Terra Sacra"  were published in the photographic publications Shots to Tell  (2021) . They won prizes in the Bifa and Tifa awards. A hand colored silvergelatine contactprints is published in "The Experimental darkroom" (ed. Routledge New York 2022) written and curated by Christina Z. Anderson. The book "Mille Gigli" was exhibited in the Athens Foto Festival 2022. ”L’Infiorata” received a bronze award in the Px3 Awards 2023 and in the Photo Book category in the Analog-sparks awards 2023 . The book “Minnelied” won the “Zines and Photo Book Photographer of the Year” and Gold in Zines And Photo Book/Culture in the Analog-sparks awards 2023.