Art & Authenticity Photography Retreat (ONE WEEK in Tuscany)
A full immersion retreat for female photographers of all levels and genres who wish to strengthen their artistic core
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Chiusdino
Colle Puccioli 24 53012 Chiusdino ItalyRefund Policy
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Eva Gjaltema is a Dutch visual artist based in Berlin. Through her work, Eva engages with various contemporary topics, mainly focusing on the themes of identity, relationships and memory. Analog collage and mixed media are an integral part of her practice. Eva holds a Master's degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Amsterdam (2004) and a Bachelor's degree in Photography Design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (2008). In 2018, she self-published her first photobook ‘The First Three Years’ around the theme of motherhood. She has received awards and nominations by institutions such as the Dutch Doc Award, Hariban Award, Critical Mass Top 50 and Julia Margaret Cameron Award. Her work has been exhibited internationally and included in collections such as the Fries Museum, Art Gazette, Business Art Service and various private collections. Eva has been teaching photography since 2009 at a.o. C/O Berlin Photography Museum and CREA Amsterdam, and is currently pursuing an intensive training to become an art therapist. Since 2012, Eva lives and works in Berlin with her husband and two children.
Mirjana Vrbaški is a Serbian/Canadian lens-based artist. In Mirjana’s practice, the photograph is a vehicle to gaining self-knowledge and a better understanding of lived experience. Mirjana's ongoing series Verses of Emptiness received international recognition, including prizes and nominations from The National Portrait Gallery (UK), Renaissance Portrait Prize (UK), Rabo Photographic Portrait Prize (NL) and LensCulture Portrait Award. Since then, she has expanded her practice to include landscape and conceptual photography as well as different media such as video and installation. She is interested in the photograph as an environment for empathy and resonance. Her portrait and landscape work has been brought together in a deeply personal monograph Odd Time, published in 2021 by Kerber Verlag. Mirjana has actively taught photography at institutions such as the KHB Academy of Art and C/O Berlin Photography Museum, as well as in portrait workshops at her Berlin studio. She exhibits internationally and is represented in private and public collections, including The National Portrait Gallery, Fries Museum, Transformer Station Cleveland and others. Mirjana lives in Berlin with her husband and son.