About Zatarra Rafaël
I Am that I Am
Consciousness adventurer and life-artist,
who loves to shine,
explore and experiment.
Expressing in many artistic ways.
For now mainly through photography and poetry.
Are you open to surprise?
Creative process
The creative process is like an experience,
in which I open up to a landscape
with uncountable possibilities.
Then I follow my heart, vision and wisdom, and choose.
As a photographic artist and poet I allow my creativity to come to me, from within. Ultimately the most marvelous works, come from within.
Fascinations & Themes
I’ve always been fascinated by transformation, like a caterpillar that becomes a butterfly and the stages it goes through, to be.
I’ve always been amazed by what can be found underneath, what lies beneath, when one looks deeper, to discover beyond what can be seen with human eyes. Yet can be experienced, felt. Although some, can be seen though technology nowadays. As we can reach deeper into the oceans than ever before and film shapes of life there, never seen.
Then how time and space create movement. A series of still images coming to life like never before, a transformation in itself as they go from solid to more fluid in a digital shape at a screen. Creating a story together, like in an animation or through sound, creating a song.
And then life, what is life, what is it for? In my perception, to experience and to discover how all is communicating, some call that energy, to ultimately know oneself. Life, communications, energy, I say it’s the same.
study
Fotoacademie, Amsterdam, NL
Autonomous, illustrative
Graduated December 2016
Exhibitions
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Room of Hope, Group Exhibition,
Museum voor Beeld & Geluid, Hilversum, NL, 2018 -
Lux, Alumni Exhibition,
Loods 6, Amsterdam, NL, 2016 -
Beurs van Berlage in 40 images,
Group Exhibition,
Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, NL, 2015/2016
Screenings Photo-Animation
A Road to Magnum Opus
(graduation version)
- Library Emmen, open stage - March 2017
- LUX graduate exhibition - December 2016
Publications
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Poetry collection: Plot
Published by Haarlemse Dichtlijn, 2023
Poem: Get-together
click here for more information. -
Poetry collection: Vicit, Vim, Virtus
Published by Haarlemse Dichtlijn, 2022
Poem: I finally got there
click here for more information. -
Poetry collection: Van het Oosterdok 2018
Published by Public Library Amsterdam, 2018
Poem: the silence -
Lux exhibition catalogue
Published by Lux Exhibition, 2016
Image from project: A Road to Magnum Opus
Poem: Path of life in images
Online Publications
Poetry Recitations
from 2016 - now
Stages for Poetry:
- Haarlemse Dichtlijn & more
- Library Amsterdam (OBA)
- Library Emmen
Festivals:
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Poetry Festival -
Haarlemse Dichtlijn
2022, 2023 & 2024 -
Festival Lorelei -
Poetry in Flow,
my own programme
2020 & 2022