NICOLE VAN STRAATUM @ KNICK STUDIOS

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Selected works from Nicole Van Straatum’s photo series Suriname Journal were featured @ Knick Studios grand opening exhibition.

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Objectification

Objectification from Lizzy Sanford on Vimeo.

by Lizzy Sanford

Suriname Journal

Along the River

Awarradam - Steps

Awarradam - Village HAIR

Commewijne Bridge

French Guiana-2

French Guiana-7

French Guiana-Prision Bath

GATE KEEPER

GUIDE IN BLUE

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In Clouds

Jungle Courts

Middle of the World

Pineapples

SKY_BIRD_PALM

snake

Somewhere Peaceful

St Laurent

TANG

The Man of Suriname

waterslide-Marina Lex

by NVS

Suriname Journal

Collection of Photographs taken while in Suriname, 2014
Series 1 of Research & Documentation

In 2014, traveling back to her native Surinamese roots to establish an on-going research and documentation project exploring the core of her identity in a country made up of 90% rainforest.
Along the journey, NVS was sent into the Amazon to visit Maroon villages and to the top of Suriname at Galibi beach with the Carib Indingeous tribe on a video and photo project commissioned from Surinamese Holistic Healer, Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD.

The Suriname Journal is does not end in 2014, Nicole Van Straatum is finding ways to further discover her heritage through personal and sourced experience, photography, writings, and interviews. Series 1 is only the first chapter of Nicole’s life-long voyage of cultural, historical, and individual understanding of being a second generation Surinamese-American.

Life, the Colour of Peach Blossom

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’Life, the Colour of Peach Blossom’

203mmX204mm, Paint on board, 2016

Universal Love at Mild Manners Gallery L1, 499 Crown St Surry Hills, NSW 2010. 6-8 Thursday the 4th of Feb. Essay By Annette Ekin : UNIVERSAL LOVE – ESSAY ‘The Land is Alive’ by Anette Ekin