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 or adding it. 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 through this language with different people, places, and moments. Through her eyes, her personal visual world 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 commissions—she favors connection, understanding, and intimacy. In working closely with her subjects or clients, her work becomes a foundation for a shared dream. In her work she hopes to reveal beauty and magic not as a form of escape, but as something already embedded in the world and minds 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 communicating my truth: a set of eyes trying to show you something essential. In my work I feel it is important to preserve space for imagination: a language beyond words that taps into feelings, creation, perception and intuition. In it different people, places, times, emotions, cultures, thoughts, dreams, and truths can be united.”
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 or adding it. 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 through this language with different people, places, and moments. Through her eyes, her personal visual world 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 commissions—she favors connection, understanding, and intimacy. In working closely with her subjects or clients, her work becomes a foundation for a shared dream. In her work she hopes to reveal beauty and magic not as a form of escape, but as something already embedded in the world and minds 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 communicating my truth: a set of eyes trying to show you something essential. In my work I feel it is important to preserve space for imagination: a language beyond words that taps into feelings, creation, perception and intuition. In it different people, places, times, emotions, cultures, thoughts, dreams, and truths can be united.”
Last Updated 24.10.31