My Other Side

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

What do you do when you discover that something drastic has
happened to your body, transforming your daily life completely?
Camille Renée Devid’s response to being thrust into a twilight
zone was to photograph herself.

My Other Side is an account, in images, of her physical struggle,
revealing aspects of her own body not visible to others. It
depicts, in sometimes disturbing explicitness, an intimate and
lone battle, an obsession even. Initially, Camille was mentally
and emotionally unable to photograph her own vulnerable
nakedness and physical weakness. But in the end she had no
choice – for the sake of her own future well-being and to
release her artistic creativity. Setting aside her fears, she started
taking photos of herself in her darkest moments, those instants
when she felt old, ugly, worn out and in pain. No longer the
attractive, fearless and successful young woman she had once
been. But during this process she came to the realisation that
exposing her vulnerability was not an act charged with
negativity, but in fact a source of empathy, connection, courage,
creativity, even of love.

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