My work is a poetic, melancholic and sometimes romantic version of reality, my reality.
It's personal and therefore emotional, as I'm quite an emotional character.
I encourage the viewer to use his or her own imagination. In 2013 I graduated from the Photo Academy in Amsterdam with the project One Year,
my visual representation of a year in my life in which three of my family members died, and I was abandoned by my partner.
The project gained much attention and has been published in book form.
I live and work in Amsterdam.
REVIEWS & FEATURES
PS - Het Parool (21 september 2019)
EDUCATION
2017 Expert program: a successful photography project with Evelien Kunst
2016 Darkroom printing masterclass with Machiel Botman
2015 Workshop DIY-storytelling with Rob Hornstra
2014 Magnum workshop with Antoine D'Agata @ Tokyo Institute of Photography
2012-2013 Internship photographer @ Het Parool newspaper, Amsterdam
2010-2013 Photo Academy Amsterdam, graduated december 2013
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATION
2021 Project “Outside room 8” @ Rotterdam Photo Festival
2021 Project "Outside room 8” @ Foto Festival Naarden
2021 Expo project “Outside room 8” Buy My Darlings @ NDSM Amsterdam
2019 “Charles goes Arles - The Unseen Edition 2019” @ Unseen Amsterdam
2019 Book launch & exhibition “One Year” @ Schilt Publishing & Gallery
2018 "Charles goes Arles - The Hamburg Edition" slideshow during Triennale der Photographie in Hamburg
2017 "Charles goes Unseen" @ Unseen, Amsterdam
2017 "Charles goes Arles" guerrilla slideshow during Rencontres d'Arles
2017 Exhibition "1 Year" @ Foto Festival Naarden 2017
2017 Group exhibition "Questo Paradiso", Gallery Wijnstraat, Dordrecht
2017 Exhibition "1 Year" at Volkshotel Amsterdam
2017 Nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass 2017
2017 Gomma Grant 2016 Shortlisted Photographer
2016 Participated in the Lensculture World Press Photo portfolio reviews, Amsterdam
2016 Online portfolio publication "Dark Romance", GUP
2015 Online publication "1 Year", Burn Magazine
2015 Online publication "The Lost Generation", NEW DAWN Magazine
2015 Exhibition "Zonder samenhang is alles perfect" Pantheon Gallery, Amsterdam
2015 Online publication VICE, VICE Geert Broertjes
2015 Publication NEW DAWN Magazine "1 year" series
2014 Exhibition Pantheon Galerie, Amsterdam
2014 Publication in GUP New Dutch Photography Talent 2015
2014 Publication in New Dawn Magazine, Editors Pic
2014 Won the 1st prize with my pitch at "De donkere kamer", Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam
2014 Portfolio publication in Focus Magazine
2013 "D'light" graduation exhibition Photo Academy Amsterdam at Loods 6
2012 Exhibition "Verborgen gezichten" at Felison Terminal, Ijmuiden
2012 Exhibition @ De Wolvenstraat 23, Amsterdam
2012 Exhibition "Vitrine de Ville" Grote 8 @ Wolvenstraat, Amsterdam
2012 Exhibition "8 op 8" Grote 8 @ Pand 14, Amsterdam
CONTACT / INQUIRIES
Studio
Ijsselmeerlaan 2
1382 JT Weesp
T: 0031 (6) 17 19 8003
E: geertbroertjes@gmail.com
Gallery
Schilt Publishing & Gallery Amsterdam
E: lilia@schiltpublishing.com
Open Doors Gallery London
E: tom@opendoors.gallery