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![A test of perception-1]( "A test of perception-1")
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![A test of perception-2]( "A test of perception-2")
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![Falk in the garden]( "Falk in the garden")
infoFrom my ongoing series - The Garden
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![Garden still life]( "Garden still life")
infoFrom my ongoing series - The Garden
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![Falk under the Volvo]( "Falk under the Volvo")
infoFrom my ongoing series - The Garden
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![An encounter with the blank page]( "An encounter with the blank page")
infoIt is not only me that comes to the page, that void in which I must jump into. I am guided by the world's happenings and I have to be willing and patient and open to see it.
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![Willa in under the Superstition Mountains]( "Willa in under the Superstition Mountains")
infoFrom the series 'Return to Turtle Island'
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![Charlotte at 10]( "Charlotte at 10")
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![Vincetoxicum]( "Vincetoxicum")
infoFrom a series in progress - 'Ethnograhpy of a Wood'
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![A Stage]( "A Stage")
infoFrom a series in progress - 'Ethnography of a Wood'
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![Study of a Line]( "Study of a Line")
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A flip through of my hand made book - edition of 30
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![Mother Rock]( "Mother Rock")
infoFrom the series 'Unblossomed Hydrangeas'
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![Boulder Field]( "Boulder Field")
infoFrom the series 'Unblossomed Hydrangeas'
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![Dakota at 16]( "Dakota at 16")
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Photographer and printer focusing my practice on human empathy and our connection with nature.
A photograph is a cipher of instinctual intrigue. I use photography as an interpretation of my surroundings, a decoding of interactions, and an inquiry of connection. My work starts from intuition and forms through a post-creation analysis of what I have photographed, searching for connections, and questioning why moments stand out to me. I then go on to formulate series of images which translate subconscious lines of thought. This leads my subject matter to range from landscapes to portraits to unintentional still lives. My work reflects on human connection, the role of commonplace and empathy towards nature.
My work in projects often finds its final presentation in the form of a book. This format provides an independant setting for my intimate views of the world.
Key Words: Belonging, Ethos, Mortality, Nature, Connection, Environment
Websites
Personal Website
emily-josephine-rooney.com/Collective Website
pineappleroadpress.com/Social media
Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator
Pineapple Road Press - https://pineappleroadpress.com/
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2025 - 2025Online Course - Deepening your practice The Emmas
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2018 - 2022Photography Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
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2017 - 2018Propaedeutic year Delaware Collect of Art and Design
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2016 - 2016Immersive Course - Digital & Analogue Photography School of Creative and Preforming Arts
exhibitions
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2024Netting and Waiting See Lab The Hague, Netherlands Netting and Waiting’ unfolds around the stories of the ‘nettenboetsters’ (‘net makers’) of Scheveningen and explores a connection between different timelines of sensitive labour. The exhibition takes inspiration from repetitive, craft-based work and its ability to alleviate anxiety in an uncertain world. Alongside historical elements of Scheveningen, four contemporary artists will share their work, which each in its own way, conceptually touches upon the liminal space between waiting and creating. Group
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2024Open Studio Grote Pyr The Hague Opening the doors to our shared studio space, inviting the public to explore works in progress. Emily Josephine Rooney, Emma Grima, Lina Selg, Ghazale Moqanaki, Marieke Peeters. Group
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2022Unexpected Stories / New Talent Firma Van Drie Gouda, Netherlands Unexpected stories tell these three new talents with their artwork. The intense story of Daan Kamerman behind the poignant portraits of her good friend Jip who unexpectedly became seriously ill due to a virus caused by an insect bite. The story For Sureness that Everything Is Good by Lotte Koppens about her recovery from a sexually abusive relationship in which she found herself unexpectedly and which took place behind her door invisible to others. Then the story Unblossomed Hydrangeas by Emily Josephine Rooney about the beauty of the unpredictable landscape around us in which the passage of time becomes unexpectedly visible www.instagram.com/p/ClEq-bmMAuf/ Group
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2022Graduation Show Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Netherlands During the Graduation Show 2022, 246 works by our – now – brand new alumni were on display. www.kabk.nl/en/news/thank-you-for-visiting-graduation-show-2022?mark=2022%20Graduation%20show Group
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2021Don't Hold Your Breath Grey Space in the Middle The Hague, Netherlands Babyface Collectve is making an exhibition on the theme of (dys-)functional systems. As a collective, they are reflecting on the functionality of systems, by investigating social issues in today’s world, while imagining alternative realities. They present their individual projects not only by photographs but also through sculptures, performance art, audiovisual media and interactive works. www.kabk.nl/en/news/photography-exhibition-dont-hold-your-breath-by-babyface-colletive Group
Projects
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2026
The Garden Westzaan, Netherlands emily-josephine-rooney.com/The-Garden To know that form and feeling are integral and inseperable aspects of our reality. To see both the beauty and the underlying form of a back yard and all that takes place in it. I witness with admiration a way of being which regards function over form.
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2025
Rhiannon United States emily-josephine-rooney.com/A-project-on-Family-Patriotism As my sister and her daughters relocate from one army base to the next, they travel through the open landscape of the American Midwest. At a time when both personal and national identities are in flux the enduring presence of the land becomes a steadfast companion through a time of uncertainty. This project is an ode to the tenderness of family bonds and a call to value our mutually dependant relationship with the landscape.
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2024
Moon-dog Back-stitch emily-josephine-rooney.com/We-Saw-the-World-Move This project is a meditation on attention. We immerse ourselves in the mountain, and listen again to the voice of the world. Moon-dog Back-stitch is a coming together of observations and reflections. Brand and Emily interlace their photographs with poems from several authors which were inspired by their recordings. In this blend of multiple writen and visual voices and interpretations comes a project of a mountain trail, not from any one particular perspective, but as a holistic experience. These mythical tales rooted in the land help to weave our collective soul. Have we lost sight of them for good? We immerse ourselves in the mountains, and listen again to the voice of the world. A collaborative photographic project with Brand Kurpershoek To be published by NECK
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2022
Unblossomed Hydrangeas The Hague, Netherlands emily-josephine-rooney.com/Unblossomed-Hydrangeas To prove that what is to come is wildly unexpectable and that there is a beauty in that unknown, I looked backwards. Stones and further, the landscape they derive from, serve as a reminder of the unpredictability of the passing of time. Shaped by their experience, placed by events no longer visible, the land and its components hold stories of the past. They serve as proof of the chaos in this dynamic system that we call life on Earth.
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Flowers for Sadness The Hague, Netherlands emily-josephine-rooney.com/Flowers-for-Sadness Stuck in the tight grasp of anticipatory grief I hold onto that which I know I will lose.
International exchanges/Residencies
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2023Ticino , Switzerland A two month retreat into the mountains to create a body of work based on the spirit and communion of Valle Maggia www.alpesoladino.ch/
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2021Internship - Raymond Meeks, United States A four month immersion into the work and process of Fine-Art Photographer Raymond Meeks and his studio Partner Jenia Fridlyand. www.raymondmeeks.com/
Commissions
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2025Private clients The Hague, Netherlands Weddings, maternity, couples, family, and newborn sessions emily-josephine-rooney.com/Commissions finished
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2023Portraits - Pulvia Collective The Hague, Netherlands Portraits and visual identity for the band Pulvia Collective www.instagram.com/pluviacollective/?ref=bw5klf00y40&hl=am-et finished
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2023Louise Rietvink - Table Set Documentation Private client The Hague, Netherlands The styling & documentation of a plate & bowl set designed and crafted by Louise Rietvink. www.louiserietvink.com/ finished
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2023Arete - Alpine Camp Maggia, Switzerland Photographing during a week long retreat into the Swiss Alps for yoga, workshops, mental training. www.yoga-vida.ch/post/arete-alpen-camp finished
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2023Alpe Soladino Maggia, Switzerland Documenting life and activities on the mountain side goat farm of Alpe Soladino www.alpesoladino.ch/ finished
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2023Portraits - Meet the team The Hague, Netherlands Portraits for employees of 'Lola Bikes & Coffee' for community promotion www.lolabikesandcoffee.nl/blogs/lola-blog finished
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2022Analogue Printing - Raymond Meeks Private client The Hague, Netherlands Silver Gelatin Prints for the cover of artist addition publication - 'Somersault' - Raymond Meeks www.instagram.com/p/CjsfTyisfxM/?hl=am-et finished
Publications
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2025Undertow Book Maya Whitehouse A publication exploring the human experience through a curated collaboration of work. This publication is a form of provocation, tenderly exploring the existing conversations and discourses impacting our emotions and shaping our identities. Each edition will showcase work from young and established creatives. Demonstrating how their responses differ to each theme and highlighting the importance of creative opinions. The first edition will be centred around the notion of Overwhelm, what causes it and how it appears across our lives.
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2024Z3NE Book ZONE www.thezonezine.com/issue/z3ne-3/ Shy, silent, hesitant images start to open up. They start revealing sides of them which remained hidden so far. Small dialogues emerge. Then they get louder and louder. Individual notes become a whole orchestra. That’s why we prefer listening to the images and not starting with a specific idea in mind. We are interested in works that suggest instead of showing. Whisper instead of shouting. Something violent can become heavier when communicated in a soft manner. Sometimes light becomes the best way to evoke darkness… The book is divided into chapters, they remain without a name.
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2022Darlings Book The Hague, Netherlands pineappleroadpress.com/Darlings November 26, 2022, during the Open Day at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Pineapple Road Press, a photography collective made up of four former students, made a zine in a day. The framework of this publication was highlighting the raw and unadulterated love of an image without the need for context, motive, or function. They asked both fresh and practiced photographers attending the Open Day to contribute their “Darling’s” to the publication that was then sequenced, printed and bound in the same day. They see this photo-object as a record of the time, and of the people that participated. What catches an artist’s eye and heart in this day and age? During this Open Day, established for those that are considering to expand their artistic practices, they reminded artists to never let go of the love of their craft and the joy it can bring to let go of all criticisms for the sake of that gut feeling that makes you say - “I made this and I really like it”
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2021Under Her Gaze We Feel Golden Book Pineapple Road press The Hague, Netherlands pineappleroadpress.com/Under-Her-Gaze-We-Feel-Golden She greets us with her glorious persistence. She surrounds us with her warm embrace. In summer, the sun is watching over us as we dance through life. She is our medicine from the sickness of our daily routine. Leaving the toxic spectacle of society in the dark, we are awakened to a fresh state of consciousness. Allowing us, at last, to embrace the rejuvenation of our being. We asked ourselves when this transformation happens. It is when we celebrate endless days together. When we wander aimlessly within unfamiliar mountains. When we feel the tingly sensation of her light on our skin.
reviews
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2025Photobook Review Website Lababush www.instagram.com/p/CnO4P0BjcVG/?img_index=1 "...a jewel published in only 30 copies, by @emily.josephine.rooney , an artist full of sensitivity. “Unblossomed Hydrangeas” is fascinating in its content, design and use of image/text. A book made with the extreme dedication of things made by hand, full of inspiration and delight."
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2023Story 151: Emily Josephine Rooney Website Nowhere Diary nowherediary.co/stories/story-151-emily-josephine-rooney Interview and Review of Personal Work
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2023https://www.vesseleditions.com/243428331774/emily-josephine-rooney Vessel Editions www.vesseleditions.com/243428331774/emily-josephine-rooney Interview and Review of Personal Work - with a focus on the book form
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2022Portfolio Discarded Magazine www.discardedmagazine.com/portfolio/emily-josephine-rooney/ Featuring a portfolio of 'Discarded' images
Secondary art-related activities
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2025 - --Workshop Provider for Silver Gelatin Printing On-going
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2023 - 2023Co-lead Independent Study Course - 'Social Xchange' at KABK
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2023 - --Analogue & Digital Printing at De Verbeelding Fotovaklabratorium On-going