Isabelle Pateer
Antwerp, Belgium
Isabelle Pateer (°1980, The Netherlands) is an awarded portrait and documentary photographer, based in Antwerp (Belgium).
In 2003 she obtained a master in fine arts from the Institute of Visual Arts St Lukas Brussels (graduated with honors). She is regularly commissioned by clients like The New York Times, Financial Times, Bio Planet, Foodservice Network and others and exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide including MoMa Tbilisi, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Photofusion Gallery London, Galerie Lichtblick Cologne, Photo Ireland Festival, Botanique Gallery Brussels, Fotofestival Naarden, Daegu Photo Biennale South Korea and Fotofestiwal Lodz.
2014 - Environmental Photographer of the Year | UK, 2013 - Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards | Georgia, 2013 - PHOTOVISA contest Krasnodar | Russia, 2013 - Portfolio Walk Deichtorhallen Hamburg | Germany, 2013 - Vlaamse Gemeenschap Grant| Belgium, 2012 - Grand Prix Photofestiwal Lodz | Poland, 2012 - Photopitch DDK / Picture Paris | France, 2011 - Fotofestival Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg , 2011 - Burn Emerging Photographer Fund | USA, 2010 - Prix Jeune Artiste La Libre Belgique | Belgium, 2010 - Dutch Doc Award | The Netherlands, 2010 - CENTER Portfolio Review Santa Fe | USA, 2010 - Descubrimientos Photo Espana Madrid | Spain, 2010 - BNP Paribas Fortis Artistic Talent Award | Belgium, 2010 - Stichting Fonds Anna Cornelis | The Netherlands, 2009 - International Photography Festival | Bratislava , 2008 - Dexia Press Award| Belgium, 2008 - IPA International Photography Awards LA |USA
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Temporary nature compensation area.
Isabelle Pateer
European law requires the construction of nature compensation areas in case of industrial expansions. In the area around the Belgian village Doel, (temporary) nature areas have been created to compensate the expanding Antwerp harbour. At basis a good initiative is not always executed with respect to the intended objective. The nature area we see here in the front part of the image consists of dredged and dumped sand from the river Schelde, being deepened 24/7.
'Unsettled' questions the worldwide phenomenon of industrial expansions and its consequences, shown in the study of the Belgian village Doel and the surrounding area. The place is threatened by vast expansions of the port of Antwerp and related nature compensation plans. Starting from this specific example, the series refers to- and questions the general tendency of global political and economic shifts and how they manifest themselves on the people and the surrounding.
Icons (Former centre of the village Wilmarsdonk)
Isabelle Pateer
In the 1970s the village 'Wilmarsdonk', nearby the Antwerp harbor was sacrificed in favor of a newly constructed container logistic area. Only the tower of the church was protected and finds itself until today in the middle of an industrial area.
'Unsettled' questions the worldwide phenomenon of industrial expansions and its consequences, shown in the study of the Belgian village Doel and the surrounding area. The place is threatened by vast expansions of the port of Antwerp and related nature compensation plans.
Portraits of young inhabitants alternate landscapes and interiors which bare witness to the transformed state of the area.
Starting from this specific example, the series refers to- and questions the general tendency of global political and economic shifts and how they manifest themselves on the people and the surrounding.
Christof
Isabelle Pateer
Christof Malcorps is one of the inhabitants of the village of Doel, which is threatened because of harbor expansions and plans to construct a new dock exactly on the spot of the village. It is uncertain how long people can still stay in the village and many people already left.
'Unsettled' questions the worldwide phenomenon of industrial expansions and its consequences, shown in the study of the Belgian village Doel and the surrounding area. The place is threatened by vast expansions of the port of Antwerp and related nature compensation plans.
Portraits of young inhabitants alternate landscapes and interiors which bare witness to the transformed state of the area.
Starting from this specific example, the series refers to- and questions the general tendency of global political and economic shifts and how they manifest themselves on the people and the surrounding.