Annemarie Spilker
Annemarie Spilker is a Dutch photographer best known for her self-portraits and landscapes. Spilker attended The Photography Academy in Amsterdam where she graduated cum laude in 2003, with the series self-portraits "Searching to fill the emptiness..."
Spilker's photography focuses on penetrating self-portraits with an uncomfortable and confronting atmosphere, in which she searched for the hidden places in her own personality. Her landscapes appear almost unreal due to the unprecedented silence and timelessness. Since college, Spilker has worked mainly with a medium format Hasselblad, the reason most of her images are square. Sometimes she works with antique medium format cameras from around 1930–1940.
She is a member of the World Photography Organisation.
In 2012 Annemarie started the . Bulbfiction is a collaboration of 5 artists living in De Duin en Bollenstreek in Holland. They are working in their own fields of art and with their own styles but all with the same theme, The Flower District. Annemarie currently lives and works in Bergschenhoek, The Netherlands.
Awards
Honorable Mention category Fine Art, 12th International Color Awards 2019 Honorable Mention, Lucie Awards 2013 Honorable Mention, Lucie Awards 2012 2 Honorable Mentions, Lucie Awards 2011 Bronze Award, The 5th Photograph of the year Competition 2011 Nomination Gouden Gerbera 2011, fine-art prize Artmajeur Silver Award 2011 Nomination category People 5th Black and White Spider Awards 2010 Artmajeur Silver Award 2010 Extra price Academy Award 2003- ''2 Nominations Academy Award 2003''