About Caroline Bijl (1960) born in the Netherlands, lives in Amsterdam
My photography is a poetic reflection on time spent in specific landscapes such as deserts and volcanic landscapes, captured during long time travels. In these environments, I experience the overwhelming force of earth and nature, the vastness that robs me of any sense of footing, and the silence that is at once deafening and oppressive—and the existential awareness that such an overwhelming landscape brings.
This confrontation with boundless expanse evokes not only fear and awe but also an existential consciousness, which profoundly shapes my photography. I find myself continually drawn back to the desert and the volcanoes, deepening my relationship with those landscapes and yielding ever-new insights.
In the darkroom, my images detach from personal memories and experiences to gain their own autonomy. I work exclusively with analogue camera’s and use various techniques in my dark room, such as photopolymer technique or liquid light. Film rolls are often affected by fluctuating temperatures and high humidity. When printing, I use only expired, aged photographic paper, which inevitably introduces imperfections. I embrace these “errors” and incorporate them into my visual language as echoes of the landscape’s rawness. works with liquid light, and recently discovered the toyobo print aka photopolymer technique
Exhibitions
2025 april Group exhibition Analogue, Kunstruim Amsterdam
2022 july 10th .Context Exhibition Photo Gallery and Bookstore Haarlemmerstraat 122 Amsterdam. for more info click here
2021 april Landscape stories online publication; click here
2019 january Art Chapel Amsterdam, group exhibition ‘Tribute to analogue photography’
2015 Amsterdam, Open atelier-route Amsterdam Oost,
2014 Amsterdam Art Gallery Prinsengracht 444, Amsterdam
2014 september Amsterdam, group exhibition tribute to the Vondelpark
2013 Amsterdam, Open Ateliers-route Amsterdam
2012 Amsterdam, group exhibition Art Church Prinseneiland | "and I repeat"
2012 Amsterdam, Town Hall Amsterdam Oost| to be seeN
2012 Amsterdam, Fotogram| OoginOog
2011 Amsterdam, Art Chapel| OoginOog
Graduation Exhibition Photography Academy
2011 Amsterdam, art Cafe 1900| to be seen
2010 Amsterdam, Art Church Group Exhibition,
2009 Amsterdam, Fotogram| Het Oog
Education
2015 Jan-June 2015 Masterclass 'The art of centering your eye' with Diana Lui, French photographer and artist
2012 April Marseille, Masterclass Editing Christian Caujolle
2008-2011 Photo Academy Amsterdam - autonomous, portrait
2010 July Lyon, Masterclass Richard Dumas.
2009 December Marseille, Masterclass Klavdij Sluban.
