Awoiska van der Molen
Dutch photographer Awoiska van der Molen (1972) attended ABK Minerva Groningen, Hunter College New York, and attained a Master's degree in Photography at St Joost, Breda. She photographs places on the peripheries of anonymous cities, mostly working in the dark of night, when external and interrupting influences are minimal and our senses can concentrate fully. Moving through the night, her working environment is absent of all the disruptive and hectic qualities of daily city life. The manual printing of her photographs in the dark room is an important part of her working process.

Powerful prints
Van der Molen describes the unifying theme of her chosen subjects: "They carry their own intrinsic power. They stoicly hold up amidst the eroding and superficial outside world". She compares her subjects with a 'monadnock' - 'a type of mountain that arises due to the shrinking of the material after a long period of erosion. Only the hardest part of rock remains.'
Various prints by Awoiska van der Molen are available at Foam Editions from € 840.