PHOTOGRAPHER
KAREN KETELS
Karen Ketels is a Belgian photographer, based in the Flemish Ardennes.
She is intrigued by silence and movements, time passing by, light, whites, minimalistic scenes, soft colors, natures beauty, macro-details …
With her work she wants to make the unseen visible, to evoke silence, and create minimalistic images with an extra touch of beauty.
‘Everything in life is movement. Time passing by, is the essence of our being. I want to observe time in its elusiveness, and document it in a pure, minimalistic way, stripped of all the unnecessary. My way of documenting time passing by, is by creating one-shot images with my camera. This camera painting technique is not photoshop or AI, it is pure photography, created in camera out in the fields’
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At the moment Karen is looking for representation, and would like to get in contact with art galleries.
EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING
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PAST
- Artistmeeting 2025, Knokke Belgium, 22-25 aug 2025 = https://www.artistmeeting.com
- Little Treasures 2024, 30nov – 11dec 2024, Bologna, Italia,https://www.Trevisan-international-art.com
- Artistmeeting 2024, Knokke Belgium – 22-25 august 2024 (first exhibition with minimalistic photography) = https://www.artistmeeting.com/
- Summer 2018 = L’été des portraits at Bourbon-Lancy, France (selection of portraits) https://www.letedesportraits.fr/
- Summer 2016 = L’été des portraits at Bourbon-Lancy, France (selection of portraits) https://www.letedesportraits.fr/
AWARDS
- Jan 2025 = Honorable Mention for ‘Silent life of trees’, by TIFA, Tokyo International Foto Awards
- Oct 2024 = Nominated in category Abstract with ‘Giants’ and ‘Misty Morning’ at 18the ColorAwards, USA
- Sept 2024 = Honorable Mention for ‘Misty Morning’, by Circle Arts
- Aug 2024 = Artistmeeting Award, granted by expert Hugo Brutin
- Sept 2023 = Bronz Award, Category ‘Pets and people’, International Pet Photographer of the Year Awards, Australia
- Oct 2020 = 2X Bronz Award, Category ‘Pets and Animals’ and ‘Creative’, Rise International Photography Awards, Australia
- July 2020 = Top 25 in ‘Open Category’ in The Pet Photographer of the Year, Australia
- July 2020 = Nominée in ‘Pets & People’ and ‘Open category’ in the Pet Photographer of the Year, Australia
- Oct 2019 = Nominée in the 14th Black & White Spiderawards, USA
- July 2019 = Nominée ‘Pets & People’ and ‘Open category’ in Pet Photographer of the Year, Australia
- 2016 = Winner ‘Price of architect jury’ in Archifocus contest
- 2016 = Selected for team Belgium at the World Photographic cup with dreamscape ‘Horebeke my hometown’
- Oct 2015 = EP – Certificate by Federation of European Photographers with 6 landscape-images
- 2013 = Bronze award ‘nature photography’ – NVB (federation of professional photographers Belgium)
