When the world becomes too loud, I turn to places where time moves differently.
Our lives unfold quickly, but the Earth follows a much slower rhythm. Rocks erode, tides return, wind shapes the land — movements that began long before us and will continue long after we are gone. Thinking in those terms doesn’t feel distant or cold to me. It brings perspective and calm. It reminds me that the urgency of our time is temporary.

Being in vast landscapes — among mountains, rock formations or by the sea — shifts my sense of scale. Human concerns soften, attention widens. What can feel overwhelming at first often becomes grounding. In my work, I try to share that experience: a quiet moment of orientation, a sense of belonging to something larger and ongoing.

I photograph landscapes where human presence fades into the background and time becomes visible. These are places shaped by erosion, weathering and repetition. Working in black and white helps me strip the image back to its essentials. Without colour, the focus shifts to texture, contrast and form — to the quiet persistence of matter.

My photographs are often manipulated by hand. I print, fold and crease the paper, allowing the surface to record its own history. These small gestures echo the processes I photograph: slow, physical and irreversible. Each image carries traces of time, touch and change.

Through this way of working, I explore a different experience of time — not as a straight line, but as a cycle of return and transformation. In that understanding, I find solace. Not in the idea of permanence, but in the reassurance that change itself is what continues.

BIO

Geralda Odinot is a Dutch visual artist working with black-and-white photography. Her practice focuses on landscapes shaped by slow, geological processes, where human presence recedes and time becomes tangible.

With a background in both visual arts and science, she approaches photography as a form of quiet investigation — combining a research-driven mindset with a tactile, hands-on process. After completing a PhD in legal psychology and working internationally, she shifted her focus entirely to photography in 2019.

Odinot’s works are printed and altered by hand: folded, creased, torn or transformed into sculptural forms. Through these physical interventions, the photographs carry traces of time, touch and change, reflecting the long rhythms of the Earth.

2026

Eric Levert Etsen, een overzicht. 2026. ISBN 978-90-9041-3

2025

Exhibition The Same as it never was: Two artist, two perspectives, one shifting world. Buerman & Odinot, EMgallery, Amsterdam. 12 - 14 December, 2025

Exhibiting artist, Kunstmaand Ameland, 2025

Exhibition The Same as it never was: Two artist, two perspectives, one shifting world. Buerman & Odinot, De Kunst10Daagse, Studio M4, Bergen. October, 2025

Artistbook, The same as it never was. Buerman & Odinot. 32 pages, handmade and bound.

Masterclass, Awoiska van der Molen, Amsterdam.

ARTDOC Photography magazine, The meditative lens Issue #2, 2025

Online exhibition, @artdocgallery, Monochrome Silence, The meditative lens: Part II, 2025.

2024

DEBUT EXPO, 12 - 22 December, Westergas, Amsterdam

Artist-book, Gaia is here to stay

Graduation Conceptual Photography (BA), Photo Academy Amsterdam

Kiekiekrant, The talent issue, December 2024

PF fotografie magazine, Nieuw talent onthuld, #8 2024

Workshop Platinum-palladium printen, Atelier Zilverbeek

2023

Liquid emulsion, Atelier Zilverbeek

Toyobo printen, AGA-lab Amsterdam, Grafische werkplaats Den Haag

EXPO, module Verdieping en reflectie, Fotoacademie Amsterdam

Publication, Dutch Street Magazine, Issue 3, pag. 82

2020

Photography, Fotovakschool Rotterdam