The world is facing huge challenges that endanger one of the basic needs and lifelines of humanity:(inter)personal contact.
Human encounters have always been the source of inspiration in my work. Meeting the Dutch twin-sisters,I felt extremely inspired how they seem to live in their own parallel universe,a deep connection between two beautiful souls that is based on love and trust. With settings that represent both the present and the future, I want to tell the story how we can all be mirrors and sources of inspiration for each other as long as we reach out, see the other in ourselves.
Milette Raats (b.1971) works as visual artist and freelance photographer. Travel, the meetings that ensue abroad, staging, and the use of analogue cameras (including the 1952 Agfa Billy) are primary components of the photography of Milette Raats. In her tableaux vivants she plays with the characters embodying different eras. Her appreciation of history, love for travel and analogue photography merge and flourish in her work, culminating in the filmic and picturesque. Her work is characterized by strongly introspective images, those shot deliberately out of focus bring film stills to mind. She
Awards Highlights include :
2021-2022 Solo @ Flagshipstore SieMatic at the Vondelpark, Amsterdam
2019-2020 Hermitage i.c.w. Amsterdam Museum, Dutch Masters Revisited
2019 Dutch Photo Festival Naarden (NL), https://www.fotofestivalnaarden.nl/
2018 OSCAM Museum (NL), Hollandse Meesters Herzien/Dutch Masters Revisited
2018 Designmarch i.c.w. Hanna Felting, Reykjavik (IS) http://designmarch.is
2017 SOLO The Emerald, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Finalist Landscape Award, Headon Photo Festival Sydney (AU)
2016 Lensculture London, Nomination Emerging Talent Award (UK)
2016 Lensculture London, Nomination Portrait Award (UK)
2016 Solo, The Emerald House Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Solo, 5&33 Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2015 ‘Transmission’ i.c.w. Koos Breukel, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
2014 Gallery Sirius Tokyo (JP)
2014 Emerald House i.c.w. Gallery Seelevel Amsterdam (NL)
2014 Amstel Gallery Amsterdam (NL)
2014 Gallery Majke Husstege (Dutch Gallery Award) (NL)
2013 Dutch Photo Festival, Naarden (NL)
2013 Photoville, International Photo Festival New York (USA)
2011 IJFFF Photo & Film Festival, Amsterdam (NL)
2012 Solo @ Gallery Majke Husstege, Den Bosch (NL)
2010 Gallery Majke Husstege, Den Bosch (NL)
2009 Meteorite Londen (UK)
2007 member of Lensmodern photo agency in London (UK)
2007 Dutch Photo Festival Naarden (NL)
2007/2006 Gallery Cicterna, Moscow (RU)
Upcoming exhibitions
PS Camera (location on further notice, NL),
in which she collaborates with photographer Paul de Nooijer.
