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, Joke ties in with themes related to the metaphors of the old still life tradition. 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 her photo studio she retains the freedom to experiment with composition, lighting, texture and form.
In Reproductions,Joke didn't just create copies of her house's paintings; she captured their true essence. After all, reality is in constant flux—light shifts, perspectives evolve, and shadows and colors dance. These reproductions reflect the ever-changing beauty of art.
Commissioned work and projects:
www.joko-ko.com
www.gelukkigeliefde.be