“Bewitched by blackness: photographing the desolate beauty of the Canaries. Awoiska van der Molen wandered the Canary Islands alone, taking long-exposure shots of the hills at dawn and painstakingly printing them on old-fashioned silver gelatin paper. The breathtaking results form the basis of Sequester, a meditation on the poise and patience of nature.”
“Easily one of the best photobooks in a long time.”
— Jörg Colberg
Photography exists by the virtue of light, but the landscapes in Awoiska van der Molen’s photographs loom out of the darkness. Her monochrome photographic works arise out of a desire to penetrate deeply into the core of the isolated world in which she photographs. Van der Molen is known for her monochrome landscapes. She stands out as someone who remains rooted in the riches of analogue photography and printing; expressing these roots in an extreme manner by creating monumental pieces that combine intentionality in choice of subject and photographic craftsmanship.