Some memories make you sad. Looking at it in a different way might change that feeling. Although the bond between my mother and me turned complicated I’m sure she once was intensely happy when she became my mother. It scarred her when my father died shortly after my birth and it must have marked her for life. Taking pictures of my childhood allowed me, after all these years, to feel softness and compassion for her and myself.
Annet Neijmeijer (Netherlands) is a fine art photographer and visual artist. In her work, she explores concepts of space, time and light. Annet’s research into these elements and their interplay leads to photographs where the boundaries between reality and imagination and between the finite and the infinite blur. They are created illusions of enclosed spaces and boundless landscapes, of environments where linear constraints dissolve and where light seeps through the cracks. In May 2024, Annet Neijmeijer graduated cum laude from the Photo Academy (Amsterdam) with her project AEON.
