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YOUNG TALENT
Until 2024, together with the Nederlands Fotomuseum, the Steenbergen Stipend was awarded to a student of one of the five accredited Dutch art academies for the best photographic graduation work.
The work of the nominees was exhibited each year at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, which provides a platform for the photographic heritage of the future.
The winner received an incentive prize of 5.000 euro's from the Steenbergen Foundation. Occasionally, 2.000 euro's was awarded for an honorable mention.
Currently, the foundation is not actively pursuing initiatives and does not accept requests for (financial) support.
JURY
2023
Merel Bem
Juul Hondius
Artist
My work centres on the status and impact of media images and the ways in which they enter and determine our collective memory. How images can construct an imago or how they sustain or shape our narratives and worldviews, especially documentary images with a claim to truth. I hope my work makes people wonder about what they see, how they see it and how we are usually conditioned to see within a narrow perspective. My photographic works are fantasies based on facts- but facts made up of complex relations. By doing so I try to analyse the different visual strategies and styles of image-making that frame a subject.
In more recent works, the work itself tries to frame it’s subject in more subjective ways, playing with it’s history and present mediatised status quo.
