Scattering Light - Between Heaven and Earth

• Photographer
  Mo Verlaan
• Agency / Studio
  Studio Mo Verlaan Photography
• Technical Info
  Fuji Instax Wide Of Stone, Vintage Postcard Of Mountain, Pink Transparency Back Of Instax Wide
• Photo Date
  2024

Shortly before my wife died, she asked me to scatter her some of her ashes bit by bit on places she loved, places we loved and new places I would visit, so that she could still travel the world with me. The stone in this Fuji Instax is standing in the old Roman cemetery of Alyscamps in Arles. The stone is at the back of the cemetery and has a remarkable shape, different on each side. I scattered some ashes on this transient place and cried in silence. I combined the Fuji Instax with an old photograph of a mountain that I found in an antique shop and the pink transparency brings them together

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.