Self-Portrait Pose A Version A 1-9_In Front of Antique Gobelin

• Photographer
  Mo Verlaan
• Agency / Studio
  Studio Mo Verlaan Photography
• Technical Info
  120 Ilford Delta 3200-mamiya 7 Ii 80mm-printed On Very Old Agfa Brovira Paper
• Photo Date
  2024

This self-portrait was made during my artist in residence at Chateau du Fresne, France. I had the unique opportunity to work in solitude and explore every corner of this incredible chateau. All the rooms are still so very authentic, their history points back to the 12th century. The chateau became my muse. Here I pose in the royal bedroom in front of a meters-wide antique gobelin tapestry depicting a sort of fairytale forest. After printing the image on 9 sheets of very old Agfa Brovira paper forming a grid, the result was so painterly, it captures the transitoriness of the chateau perfectly.

Mo Verlaan graduated in 2016 from the Foto Academy and continued studying, for a year at Atelier Smedsby in Paris and attended masterclasses in analog photography with Dirk Braeckman and Anders Petersen. Selected for the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Virtual Residency. Recently she was the Overall Winner Single Image with Book of Light at the 19th JM Cameron Award in 2022. The series Undercurrent was Winner of The Photo Award at The Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival 2019 in Kobe. Past 4 years Mo and her wife Anita Voorham have been working on their joint art book As The Magic Hour Shifts.