My Other Side

• Photographer
  Camille Renée Devid, Netherlands
• Studio
  Camille Renée Devid
• Instagram
  @ateliercrd

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’s work is influenced by her international background and experience, having lived in Curacao, France and Spain. Currently she is based in Amsterdam. In September 2014, her first book My Other Side (Grey Matters 5) was published by Schilt Publishing. In November she got selected as one of the New Dutch talents of 2015.


"I often say my work is like an eclectic puzzle that I try to solve and create.
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."