My name is Aisha Zeijpveld. I am a photographer living in Amsterdam and I’m 28 years old.
I would like to tell you about one of my first memories with photography.
When I turned sixteen I was given a second hand photo-projector to print my own pictures. I was very excited. Printing in the dark with the smell of chemicals felt almost romantic. That first night my best friend joined me in the darkroom and we stayed there for hours completely obsessed by the process of printing.
It was 5 am in the morning when we found some mysterious black and white negatives, hidden in an envelope between old unprinted photo paper. My friend and I immediately put one of the negatives in the projector. When the chemicals slowly made the image appear we blushed; these pictures were obviously not meant for our eyes! They were extremely sexual in nature and very explicit, which of course, being 16 years old, made us giggly. But most of all embarrased. These were pictures taken years ago by a couple I knew very well.
“We tore the picture in two for both of us to keep a part, as a souvenir.”
Aisha Zeijpveld (1983) obtained her degree at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
With her graduation project she was nominated by ArtOlive for young upcoming talent 2009. Living in Amsterdam she works as freelancer for a variety of magazines and cultural institutions, while continuously pursuing her personal work.
Zeijpveld focusses on people their nakedness and vulnerability yet simultaneously their potency and pride characterizes her photography. She aims for the absurd, allowing her photographs to balance on the boundaries of reality and dream-worlds, while always maintaining their functionality and clarity. (Sterre van Rossem)
Find more of Aisha’s beautiful works here.
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The following works are made in collaboration with Aukje Dekker.
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