Strangers

• Photographer
  Simone Strijk, Spain
• Studio
  Simone Rocha de Paiva
• Website
  http://www.simonestrijk.net
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/strijksimone/

Strangers is a serie of portraits about contemporary immigrant women that live the contrast between their tradition and their current choices.

Simone Strijk is a Brazilian-Dutch photographer with a background in conceptual and portrait photography. A graduate of the Foto Academie in Amsterdam, her work has been exhibited internationally, including as a finalist for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Simone’s photography explores themes of identity, emotion, and transformation, blending narrative depth with a distinctive visual language. She has also taught photography at university level and continues to develop projects that merge artistic vision with personal storytelling.

Awards Finalist Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2020 – National Portrait Gallery, Londres
Finalista en The Critical Mass 2020
New Dutch Talent 2018, GUP – Art Hotel, Ámsterdam
Reveal, Loods6, Ámsterdam, 2017
Finalista del Kuala Lumpur International Portrait Awards 2016
Whitebox Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, agosto 2016
Masquerade Exhibition, New Orleans Photo Alliance, 2014