When the world becomes too loud, I turn my attention to what endures.
Our time is brief compared to the slow rhythm of the Earth. Rocks erode, tides return, winds carve the land — movements that were here long before us and will continue long after we are gone. That thought doesn’t unsettle me; it steadies me. It reminds me that the noise of our age — the urgency, the conflict, the constant demand for attention — is temporary. The planet will outlast us. Patterns repeat, forms dissolve, and life continues in endless transformation. It will be, as always, the same as it never was.

In my work, I try to move at that slower pace. I photograph landscapes where human presence recedes and time becomes visible. I print by hand, crease surfaces, fold paper — small gestures that let the image carry its own memory of change. Working in black and white offers clarity and silence. Without colour, only essence remains: texture, contrast, erosion, the quiet persistence of matter.

These gestures bring me closer to a different sense of time — one that is circular rather than linear, shaped by repetition, weathering and return. In that realisation, I find solace: a reminder that permanence only exists through change.

BIO

Geralda Odinot is a Dutch visual artist whose work explores time, landscape and the transient nature of human existence. With a background in both visual arts and science, she combines a reflective, research-driven approach with a tactile, hands-on practice. After completing a PhD in legal psychology and working internationally, she shifted her focus entirely to photography in 2019. Her black-and-white works — often printed by hand, torn, creased or transformed into sculptural forms — capture landscapes where human presence fades and the long rhythm of the Earth becomes visible.

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.

Publication, 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