INTRODUCING EVA VAN’T LOO
I live in the Netherlands, I was born in a city that didn’t exist 60 years earlier. Now I live in a city that for the first time feels like home. I couldn’t have been happier. I’m 20. I’ve been taking pictures since I was very little, my mom or grandparents gave me disposable cameras when we would go do something special. When I was about 15 I bought my first digital camera, later I even bought a digital SLR, but I eventually fell in love with the really old analogue cameras and have been shooting with those ever since (I feel sorry for my digital SLR). I guess I take pictures because I find it hard to let things go. By taking photos you always have the memory of a certain time or place. Also I was the third child so there aren’t as many pictures of me when I was young compared to my brother and sister. I feel like I have some catching up to do. It’s like a diary to me, but also a way to change reality. Then the goal is to convince people that it is real. But it’ll always be like a diary to me, because I know what really happened when I took the photo. I can’t stop seeing things photographical, if that makes any sense(: It’s like I have a camera in my brains that always affects the way I look at things. It may sound corny, but I see things more detailed, I can see the little special things that most people would walk by, and that really makes me happy. It think without the camera, I wouldn’t notice those things either. I have too many cameras cause I never found the right one, but at this moment I use the Minolta 70 w Riva Zoom, and it might just be the one. This picture was taken accidentally, I thought I had to take an extra shot before I could start shooting the film. I was standing on the bathtub while my mom was trying to get the dog to pose for me on the ground with I giant stuffed orca. It’s one of those photos I love cause I know what was really going on, but the actual shot tells something completely different. At the moment, I am focusing more on fashion photography and the photographer who, in my opinion, combines the snapshot/diary kind of photography with fashion is Lukasz Wierzbowski. It never looks forced in any way, like the normal fashion photography does sometimes. He’s a big inspiration!
