Sore Ground

• Photographer
  Camille Renée Devid, Netherlands
• Studio
  Camille Renée Devid Photography
• Website
  https://www.camillereneedevid.com
• Instagram
  @camillereneedevid

In this day and age we as women would like to do everything. Be
a mother, wife, and working girl, looking pretty… And we’ve
been told that sky is the limit. That we can do and handle what
ever we want. But what happens if little by little you discover
your ‘feminine side’ is given you a lot of trouble. Your health
problems are keeping you from concurring the world.

Sore Ground is a photographic testimony of my self, an
observation of my inner self. A side, a reality, I wasn’t keen to
show to others. Nor was I ready to accept it my self. I could not
talk about the pain, but I eventually tried. And I used my
images as evidence so I could understand it myself and to
communicate with others.’

‘I often say my work is like an eclectic puzzle that I try to solve
and create at the same time.
The series I make are in fact single images carefully put
together to strengthen each other and show the feeling I try to
communicate through my work.’

Camille Renée Devid is a visual artist exploring identity through photography and hand-painted intervention. Her latest project, Discovering My Colors, began with a DNA test and evolved into Traces of My DNA—a self-portrait series mapping ancestral memory and emotional legacy. Camille’s work is shaped by her life between Curaçao, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. She graduated from Foto Academie Amsterdam and previously published My Other Side with Schilt Publishing. She lives and works in Amsterdam.

Awards 2014 Mifa, Moscow International Foto Awards - Honorable mention, fine art/nudes – Body vs. Mind
2015 Px3, Prix de la photographie Paris - Honorable mention, fine art/abstract - Sore ground
2015 Px3, Prix de la photographie Paris - Honorable mention, fine art/ abstract - My Other Side
2015 IPA, International Photography award - Honorable mention, fine art/nudes – Sore ground
2015 Mifa, Moscow International Foto Awards - Honorable mention, fine art/abstract – Sore ground
2015 Mifa, Moscow International Foto Awards - Honorable mention, people/child.- The great teachers 
2017 International Photo Festival Leiden, Shortlist - Down To My Bones