Answer me in a dream, so to speak your truth.
Through her photography, Coosje Froentjes questions the boundary between reality and imagination. Her work longs to merge the factual with the fantastical, finding magic hidden within the everyday. Through the creation and curation of her own visual world, she invites a dialogue between the familiar and the strange, between the past and the future.
Photography speaks to her not in declarations, but it whispers. It approaches softly, yet reaches more deeply than a shout ever could. Coosje is intrigued by connecting images of different people, places, and moments. Through this merging, a kind of universal visual language emerges: one where context dissolves, and a space opens up for the value of everyone’s imagination.
By sharing this imagination—whether through collaborative portraiture, documentary work or intimate commissions—she favors connection, understanding, and intimacy. In working closely with her subjects or clients, her work becomes a foundation for a shared dream. She hopes to reveal beauty not as a form of escape, but as something already embedded in the world around us.
“Within my photography, I’m always searching for calming translations of our often chaotic reality. I use the medium as a gentle form of communication—where people with different perspectives try to show each other something essential. Something beyond words. In photography, beauty is preserved. In it, people, places, times, emotions, cultures, dreams, and realities can be united—and made eternal.”