ABOUT

I’m Elisabeth. I’m a photographer and a mother of three, based in Haarlem, The Netherlands.

I often find myself photographing the things that would normally be edited out.

I’m drawn to the moments in between.

The moments when people forget about the camera and simply continue with whatever they were doing. A glance, a gesture, a laugh, a moment of closeness that wasn’t planned.

I like those things.

Because they tell me something about what life actually feels like.

I know how easy it is to rush through family life without really seeing it. I do it too. There is always something that needs doing, someone who needs you, somewhere you have to be.

Photography makes me stop.

It makes me look at my children, my home, my life — properly.

That is probably why I’m so drawn to photographing other families too. Not to make their lives look perfect, but to notice what is already there.

I care deeply about aesthetics — light, composition, colour and the spaces people live in. But I don’t want beauty to smooth everything over.

I want both.

The real thing, beautifully seen.

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Exhibitions

2023 Group Exhibition Emergo Fotoacademie, loods 6 Amsterdam

2023 Group Exhibition “Darkness” Decode Gallery, Tucson Arizona

2023 Group Exhibition Salon des Beaux Arts, Paris

2025 Group Exhibition Gup Magazine, Haute Photographie, Rotterdam

2025 Group Exhibition ImageNation, Paris

Publications

2023-PresentPhotovogue‍ ‍

2023 Self published book ‘Always present, often in the background’

2023 Online Publication Docu Magazine

2023 online Publication Immemory Magazine

2024 Online article All About Photo.com

2024 Online Group exhibition Artdoc Photography Magazine

Awards

2025 FRESH EYES Talent 2025GUP Magazine

Education

2023 · Graduation, Fotoacademie Amsterdam