Mascha Joustra
Photographer @ Fotoacademie Amsterdam, Netherlands. Graduated 2015 based in Rotterdam, Netherlands Mascha Joustra portfolio on Visura - a professional network to connect with photo editors and art buyers, and build photography portfolio websites. Visura members, like Mascha, share photojournalism, art photography, landscape, travel photography, portraits and more. Mascha has 13 projects, 0 community news posts, and 0 images shared in the photo stream.
Biography
Mascha Joustra graduated in May 2015 at the Fotoacademie Amsterdam, specializing in documentary and portrait series.
"I have the urge to tell and am interested in observing human behavior. I try to highlight human emotions in my work and at the same time I see beauty in objects or nature.
You could say my work is social documentary, but I think I use my images as metaphors to tell my own story. But the images are never staged or altered, that would feel wrong. It sometimes feels like a relief to express feelings through images. I work with different cameras, analogue and digital, whatever is on hand.."
Mascha self published a large series of photographs documented in a voluminous photobook called ‘Elders’ (‘Elsewhere’) designed by SYB. In this large series of photographs her quest is finding out whether a historic dualism in religion in the Netherlands is still dominating the different regions.
The book has been shortlisted for the ‘Unseen Dummy Award “ in Amsterdam, september 2015 and has been presented during Paris Photo 2015 at the Polycopies event at the the Tipi Bookshop/Brussels. Her graduation series series called ‘Elders’ has been received very well and made entrance to several (inter)national exhibitions (see in menu 'exhibits and more').
"Mascha's work has different layers and each photograph is demanding time from the viewer. Some images are poetic some direct, but her work is often asking for closer attention." .. ..”.
Also her (now) 16 year old daughter plays quite a substantial role in the series called 'fierce-fragile'.exhibitions 2013-2018 | all group exhibtions
Bruges, Belgium; Dark Rooms/Galerie PAK
Arles, France; Rencontres de la photographie; Atelier de la Mecanique
series 'genou | jambe | cuisse' result of workshop with Francoise Huguier
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle; Zomerexpo, may 2017
Fotofestival Naarden 2017; The Fence
Galerie Dordrecht; Absolution', 2016
Photofestival Rotterdam; group exhibit
‘streetwise- with series 'rubyfruit' 2016
Fotomuseum The Hague; group exhibition
‘B o e r e n ‘Avonturen op het land’, 2015
Paris Photo ; Book presentation ‘Elders’ at Polycopies event, 2015
Refreshment Room Amsterdam Pop up gallery;
group exhibition, 2015
Unseen Photo festival Amsterdam
shortlisted Book Dummy Award, 2015
Photoville New York; group exhibition series ‘Elders’, 2015
Leiden Photo International PhotoFestival
group exhibition series ‘Elders’, 2015
Galerie Beaurepaire, Paris
group exhibition with series ‘Hunt’, 2015
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
group exhibition Zomerexpo, 2015
Bredaphoto; group exhibition/ Masterclass, 2014
Naarden Fotofestival
group exhibition The Fence, 2013
masterclass:
Ghent, Belgium: Bieke Depoorter (Magnum photographer); 'tell me a picture'
Arles, Les Rencontres de la Photography/Francoise Huguier
- Aller vers les autres; April 2017
Lensculture/Darcy Padilla
online masterclass in small student group; six sessions, January 2016
Anders Petersen Masterclass, Amsterdam
organised by Veronique Sutra from Eyes in Progress, May 2015
awards and honourable mentions 2013-2016
Prix De La Photographie, Paris (Px3)
Honorable Mention in Documentary Book category:
" f i e r c e - f r a g i l e # 5” , 2016
Monochrome Photography Awards
Honourable mention Portrait Category " f i e r c e - f r a g i l e ." 2015
MIFA Moscow Photo Awards Moscow
Honourable mention Documentary-Books with series “h u n t”, 2015
Prix De La Photographie, Paris (Px3)
Honorable Mention in Documentary category, "e a c h n i g h t. .”2015
Honourable Mention International Photography Awards, IPA
(Los Angeles, USA) Fine Art- Portrait Category “f i e r c e - f r a g i l e “ , 2014
Honourable Mention International Photography Awards, IPA
(Los Angeles, USA) People_ Children Category, “f i e r c e - f r a g i l e “ , 2014
Honourable Mention International Photography Awards, IPA
(Los Angeles, USA) Photo Essay and Feature Story Category
“t o c a t c h a c o w “ , 2014
Honourable Mention International Photography Awards, IPA
(Los Angeles, USA) People – Portrait, “t o c a t c h a c o w “ , 2014
Prix De La Photographie, Paris (Px3)
First Prize in category Documentary " f i e r c e - f r a g i l e .", 2014
Prix De La Photographie, Paris (Px3)
First Prize in category Portraiture " f i e r c e - f r a g i l e .", 2014
Prix De La Photographie, Paris (Px3)
Second Prize in category Portraiture " f i e r c e - f r a g i l e .", 2014
Prix De La Photographie, Paris (Px3)
Honourable Mention documentary " b e h i n d t h e s c e n e s .", 2014
Prix De La Photographie, Paris (Px3)
Honourable Mention " c a m e r o o n. c o l o r. .", 2014
International Photography Awards, IPA
Honourable Mention One Shot-One World- People - Culture Category, 2013
International Photography Awards, IPA
Honourable Mention People - Culture Category, 2013