Isa de Jong

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Isa de Jong (1998) is a portrait photographer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

She aims to create time capsules about and together with her generational peers. Through collaborative portraiture, she tells personal and in-depth stories. These stories reveal not only the overall fear, uncertainty, and emotional state of this generation, but also the things they learned while making the time capsules.

  • Portfolio
  • Activities
  • Awarded
  • Contact

    • 20X20BY20

    Project

    • 20-05-2018 t/m 20-05-2019
    • Location: AKV | St Joost, Breda
    • '20X20BY20' offers an intimate and unmediated in-road into the lives of twenty different twenty-year-old girls. Their stories do not reveal the overall clumsiness, confusion, and excitement of this age. But also the emotional state, the uncertainty and the things they learned during this time. '20X20BY20' is a project about young women and the struggles of coming of age.
    • https://www.isadejong.com/20x20by20

    I am growing today

    Project

    • 21-05-2020 t/m 20-05-2021
    • In collaboration with: Stichting Beeldmix
    • Location: , Roosendaal
    • Two years ago, I started photographing twenty different twenty-year-old girls and quickly realized how aware they were of themselves and the identity they were portraying into the world. During these two years, I was allowed to witness their passage from girlhood into adulthood. The project focuses on their personal stories, personalities, histories and their dreams. Often presented in their own words. They told me about experiences that helped their adult personality take shape.
    • https://www.isadejong.com/i-am-growing-today

    The Mix - Today I'm Growing

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 28-08-2020 t/m 01-11-2020
    • In collaboration with: Stichting Beeldmix
    • Location: Tongerlohuys Roosendaal + local NS station, Roosendaal
    • Two years ago, I started photographing twenty different twenty-year-old girls and quickly realized how aware they were of themselves and the identity they were portraying into the world. During these two years, I was allowed to witness their passage from girlhood into adulthood. The project focuses on their personal stories, personalities, histories and their dreams. Often presented in their own words. They told me about experiences that helped their adult personality take shape.
    • https://www.isadejong.com/i-am-growing-today

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • PHOTODOK Talent Embassy

    • 2023
      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • Culture Connects Roosendaal

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Art locomotive Brabant

    • 2020
      Pricing

    • Silver Camera, Storytelling - Nominated

    • 2019
      Pricing

    • Dutch National Portrait Gallery - Nominated

    • 2019
      Publication

    • The Mix - Today I grow

    • 2020
    • Collector's book accompanying the exhibition
    • Self-published - Stichting Beeldmix
      Publication

    • 20X20

    • 2020
    • Article
    • NRC | The leaf -
      Publication

    • Blurring the Lines Catalogue

    • 2019
    • Catalogs
    • - Paris College of Art, Urbanautica & PHOTODOK