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Isabelle Pateer
Isabelle Pateer
Isabelle Pateer
Isabelle Pateer
Isabelle Pateer

Unsettled (2008 – 2021) is a long-term project on change and the environment. It addresses a current topic with global relevance—the series documents the evolution of the Antwerp harbor expansion zone in Belgium. The area is undergoing major transitions through vast industrial expansions and related nature compensation plans imposed by the European Union to balance the industrial growth with ecological areas and protect the hinterland against rising sea levels.

Starting from this local example in Belgium, the UNSETTLED project refers to a global tendency of industrial, economic, and environmental shifts and the challenge of balancing these elements for a sustainable future.

The series shows layered landscapes of the transforming area—either for industrial or compensating nature targets, interior images of abandoned houses in the endangered village of Doel, or portraits of young inhabitants in the area who will need to migrate because of the harbor expansion and nature compensation plans.

The project touches upon notions such as progress, change, ecology, climate change, sustainability, rising sea levels, global trade, the value of land, migration, and the connection between identity and our surroundings.

Project website: www.unsettled.eu

Artist Bios

  • Isabelle Pateer

    Isabelle Pateer holds an MFA (2003, Brussels) and works as a freelance portrait and documentary photographer on personal series as well as commissioned work for international clients—among which are the New York Times and the Financial Times. 

    Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including shows at Photo IS:RAEL (IL, 2020), Rencontres d’Arles (FA, 2018), Museum of Photography Brussels (BE 2017), International Photography Festival Hull (UK, 2016), Triennale der Photographie Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (DE, 2015), MoMa Tbilisi (GE, 2014), Royal Geographical Society London (UK, 2014), Galerie Lichtblick Cologne (DE, 2013), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK, 2013), Photofusion Gallery London (UK, 2013), PHOTOVISA Krasnodar (RU, 2013), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL, 2012), and Daegu Photo Biennale (SK, 2010) among others.

    With her project UNSETTLED, she was a finalist of the Photo Israel Open Call (IL, 2020), Prix Régnier Paris (FA, 2019), and International Photography Award Encontros Da Imagem Braga (PT, 2019), nominated for the PhotoLux Festival Award by Lydia Dorner, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (CH, 2019), awardee of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (UK, 2019), first prize winner of the Photovisa contest Krasnodar (RU, 2013), and a finalist of the Environmental Photographer of the Year Contest (UK, 2014), Kolga Tbilisi Awards (GE, 2012), and Grand Prix Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL, 2012).

Organizations

  • Photoville

    Photoville

    Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.

    In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.

    By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.

    Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.

    For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com

  • Dutch Culture USA

    Dutch Culture USA

    Dutch arts, culture, and shared cultural heritage are represented in the U.S. through the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Washington, DC, and the Consulates General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, New York, and San Francisco. The headquarters for cultural services is the Press and Cultural Affairs Department of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York.

    FUTURE 400, a 2024/2025 initiative of the Netherlands Consulate General in New York, endeavors to honor 400 years of Dutch-New York history with honesty and integrity, creating space for others who share this common heritage to voice their feelings and experiences at this monumental moment. Partners from cultural to commercial fields, from the New York area to the Netherlands will come together to create new work and new opportunities that will continue to write the next chapter of our shared story, our collective…FUTURE 400. More information: www.dutchcultureusa.com

Unsettled

 archive : 2021

Featuring: Isabelle Pateer

Presented by: Photoville
  • Photoville
  • Dutch Culture USA

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  • NYC Parks

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