Joke Timmermans (°1980) is a Belgium-based photographer, journalist and lecturer. She studied Cultural Sciences, Journalism and Photography.
In 2019 she won the Academy Price at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hasselt (B).
Passionate about people, storytelling, arts and culture, she is documenting New York since 2014. Her series of portraits, street scenes and still lifes reveal the city in clear, colorful and legible images.
Her Self-portraits were created in the summer of 2020 and are a profound search for light, color, form and composition in her own house.
The series Rgb is not digital processed, but the result of versatile experiments in her photo studio with color filters, movement and an old Nikon.
In Old Master Pieces, she extracts contemporary, universal objects out of their primordial context, and places them in a framework that evokes the atmosphere of the old masters from the 15th-18th century.
In Reproductions, Joke turns her lens toward the artworks in her home—not to create a perfect reproduction, but to show their changing reality. Light shifts, viewpoints move, and reflections and shadows continually transform what we see.
Some Encounters give rise to lifelong friendships or evolve into projects that span many years. It was in this way that Joke met Liz from New York and the Belgian twins Heda and Hava, with whom she has cultivated a relationship.
Commissioned work and projects:
www.joko-ko.com
www.gelukkigeliefde.be