PHOTOGRAPHY BY ELLEN KOOI
TEXT BY ITIR YILDIZ
In her fictional visual realms, photographer Ellen Kooi places her characters in wide rural settings, where they are likely to feel most comfortable. However, it is not long before you feel that something is wrong in the images, which initially deliver peace to the onlooker: the colours, the facial expressions, and sometimes the choreographies are details which Kooi prefers to point out with skill. She is attracted to mystery, uncertainty, disappointment, duality, solitude and conflict.
