Wiesje Peels &
Trijntje Keijser
Wiesje Peels works with her daughter Trijntje Keijser, with whom she has always collaborated since she was too little to hold a camera. She has been an inspiration and a support during the years.
In this mother-daughter work, nature and imagination are central and through “Nest” (their ongoing series), they create a world based on real life experiences, inspiration from literature, film, and performative arts. Due to the lack of color in the photography, they say that they sketch ‘an existentialist black and white world’.
Wiesje: As a child, my father made me enthusiastic about photography. He built a darkroom in our attic. Later there was a teacher at my high school who saw my talents and encouraged me to go to art school. I studied at the Sint Joost ar
