ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Nanda met the girls on these photo’s during a night out in Amsterdam, she instantly knew she wanted to capture them. “In their most beautiful, feminine way, but stripped from the decor around them. In their make-up and outfit, but without the ‘show’. It’s about the purity of the characters. These 3 portraits translate that”, says Nanda.

AUTHOR
Nanda Hagenaars was born in the Netherlands in 1988 and is currently living in Amsterdam. She studied International Business and Languages in Sevilla. This is where she started taking photos and started looking from another perspective.
Back in the Netherlands, Nanda started working in the advertising industry and after nearly 4 years left her office job and crashed fully into photography and art. After studying languages, she discovered a new kind of language; through photography.
Between 2007 and 2017, Nanda traveled frequently back to south Spain where she somehow always felt touched by culture and the simple vibe of the magnificent gypsy city. In 2016, Nanda made her first documentary photography project in Sevilla, where she won a price for New Dutch Photo talent 2017.
Nanda’s work can be described as romantic, poetic but with some rawness. It has always been about translating, that is what is coming from the tip of your toes, into images. It is about the divine, the ecstasy, the madness, the terror and the beauty, the power of the feminine, along with a dash of drama.

In her portraits, it is about purity, capturing people their real character, documenting their soul.

So.. to Nanda, photography is a way to translate, meditate, and communicate.

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