Where no one is, that’s where I long to be.

For as long as I can remember, I have carried small stones in my pockets. They come from places where I found silence, where time became tangible. These stones have existed long before me and will outlive me by far.

For my photography, I seek emptiness, in places where the noise of the Anthropocene cannot reach me. In photographing these landscapes, I try to loosen my grip on the human pace and reconnect with the slow, cyclical rhythms of the Earth. Beyond the noise of our age and the narratives we tell ourselves, the Earth simply is. In that vastness, I feel small—and it is precisely in that insignificance that I find peace.

My work is a search for this connection. I move between digital and analog techniques, drawn to black and white for its quiet clarity. Stripped of color, only the essence remains—textures, contrasts, the quiet erosion of time. Some images I print by hand as Toyobo etchings, others I tear or crease, allowing the image to shape itself. Nothing is fixed. Everything shifts.

BIO

Odinot is a visual artist whose work explores themes of time, emptiness, and the transient nature of human existence. Trained both in the visual arts and in science, she combines a reflective approach with a sensitivity to the traces and textures of time.

After studying at the Graphic Lyceum in Utrecht and working briefly in the graphic industry, she pursued an academic path, earning a PhD in legal psychology. Photography, however, remained her first love—a way not just to observe the world, but to feel it.

In 2019, she left her academic career to fully dedicate herself to her artistic practice. Her black-and-white images—often printed by hand, torn, or creased—capture landscapes where human presence fades. In seeking such emptiness, Odinot goes to places where the noise of the Anthropocene cannot reach her, using her camera to reconnect with the slow, cyclical processes that shape the Earth.

2025 coming up:

The Same as it never was: Two artist, two perspectives, one shifting world. Exhibition Buerman & Odinot, De Kunst10Daagse, Studio M4, Bergen. 17 - 26 oktober, 2025

Exhibition, Kunstmaand Ameland, november 2025

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

Masterclass, Awoiska van der Molen, Eyes in Progress, Amsterdam, 16 - 19 July 2025

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

Conceptueel beeldmaker, Fotoacademie 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

Fotovakschool, basis opleiding, Rotterdam