Lou-Lou van Staaveren
Growing up in a family of horticulturalists in flower capital Aalsmeer, van Staaveren has always been drawn to plants and greenery. The omnipresence of the garden has resulted in an intimately intertwined photography and gardening practice, in which the garden serves as a laboratory for both photographic and botanical experiments. The literary concept Locus Amoenus (Pleasant Place) is central to her practice. It describes a remote and idealized garden hide-out that functions as a landscape of the mind.
To van Staaveren, gardening and photography are surprisingly similar: gardener and photographer move along the same scale of control, with observation on one end and intervention on the other. Equipped with pruning shears and camera, van Staaveren cultivates green paradises of her own. Both physically, in the family garden in Aalsmeer, as well as in her photographic and spatial works.
Browse works by Lou-Lou van Staaveren
Lou-Lou van Staaveren
Pumpkin Harvest (2025)
Lou-Lou van Staaveren
Pottery #2 (2024)
Lou-Lou van Staaveren
GD (2022)
Lou-Lou van Staaveren
Hyacinth (2022)
Lou-Lou van Staaveren
Terracotta (2021)
Lou-Lou van Staaveren (1990) is a Dutch photographer, artist and gardener living and working in Amsterdam. After completing her studies in Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam she obtained a BA in photography at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague 2021. Van Staaveren is also co-founder and editor in chief of Pleasant Place, a growing collection of publications about the art of gardening.
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