International Color Awards

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Mood Swings 2
Title:Mood Swings 2
Mood swings determine my life since I was diagnosed for thyroid desease. They disorder my life in many ways and cause an inner struggle with a mood I can’t control..


Maartje Kingma
Netherlands



Biography: As long as I can remember , I am attracted to the unusual , the damaged , the weathered , the destroyed and the rejected. My work as a teacher in child psychiatry, my later career as an interior designer and my contemporary artistry , have one common denominator : unraveling the  character , the sources and the values of inner beauty . My photography is experimental, for me it's not about sharpness and even less the kind of camera. My strength is that I work intuitively , spontaneously and improvising , not obstructed by rules and laws. I experience the beauty of the fragile , the...