How will places look, when forces of nature reclaim what once was lost? Will the new inhabitants of these Marvels simply be bypassers or will they stay and make thriving cities of nature’s life. Because of mankind, the animals have been pushed to live in the most abandoned regions of the earth. In search of places where men are rarer than animals. Shall the ballrooms be again a place of dance and joy, rooms full of life, and the buildings a place of comfort and shelter against the crude forces who retook them?
Concept: 2017
Process: February, 2019 – 2022
Cheraine Collette is responsible for the Concept, Animal Photography & Editing.
Yoerie Custers is responsible for the Uninhabited Places Photography.
Together we made the photos alive and magical.
Awards
*2023: New York Photography Awards. Silver placed in Digital Enhance Photography!
*2022: Muse Photography Awards. Silver placed in Fine Art – Photomanipulation!
*2022: Muse Photography Awards. Silver placed in Fine Art – Photomanipulation!
*2021: New York Photography Awards. Silver placed in Photomanipulation!
*2021: New York Photography Awards. Silver placed in Architecture!
*2021: New York Photography Awards. Silver placed in Open Theme!
*2021: New York Photography Awards. Silver placed in Digital Enhance Photography!
*2021: Muse Photography Awards. Gold placed in Fine Art – Photomanipulation!
*2021: International Fine Art Photography Awards. Nomineed in Conceptual Category!
*2020: Tokyo International Foto Awards. Jury top 5 with the Marvels book!
*2020: Tokyo International Foto Awards. Silver placed in Book Fine Art!
*2020: International Photography Awards. Honorable Mention in Book Fine Art!
*2020: 15th Pollux Awards. Honorable Mention in Fine Art!
*2020: Prix de la Photographie Paris PX3. Honorable Mention in Fine Art / Other!
*2020: 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Overall winner in Digital Manipulation!
*2020: Moscow International Foto Awards. Honourable Mention!
*2020: Siena Awards. Highly Commended in Creative series!
*2020: 6th Fine Art Photography Awards. Nominated in PhotoManipulation!
*2020: 13th International Color Awards. Nominated in Fine Art!
*2019: International Photography Awards. Gold placed in Fine Art!
*2019: 14th Pollux Awards. Honourable Mention in Digital Manipulation!
*2019: 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Honourable Mention in Fine Art!
Cheraine Collette
Cheraine Collette was born in 1993, in a forest-side town in the east of the Netherlands. Cheraine Collette started drawing at the age of 3, the first subjects she would try to capture drawing were horses and other animals, quickly after which she would gain insights from her mother about mixing colours and how to draw in perspective by her brother.
From the age of 12, she started experimenting with one of the earliest Photoshop suites (CS1), accompanied with a digital painting tablet and brush, which was all introduced by her father. She instantly used it to paint and to layer- and manipulate her photographs. She finished her education in Photographic Design at the Fotovakschool, University of Applied Photography in 2015.
Cheraine Collette’s work is dedicated to showing the constant battle between nature and humanity, the beauty and vulnerability of nature, and historic buildings. To inspire future generations to preserve both our natural heritage and also our cultural heritage. Her work covers every aspect of photographic production, from photographing- to manipulating and digitally painting her images. In her photography, you will often find fauna, which she has photographed in their own natural habitat, to make the audience more aware that fauna can be left in peace for the final photograph.
Unique artworks
The Limited editions are available at Villa del Arte Galleries
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Books
Marvels – Journey through another World
Hardback cover with matte finish available in three different options. Artworks are printed on high quality, thick 148 gsm Premium Lustre paper. 104 pages, including never-published before sketches.
30 x 30 cm, 3 cm deep (2 kg weight). ISBN: 9789083098685.
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Marvels – Limited edition with Clamshell box
The Exclusive Limited Edition book of the ‘Marvels’ series is limited to only 250 books worldwide. Each book will be accompanied with a certificate of authenticity and signed and numbered by Cheraine Collette. Hardcover of Vegan Leather with Acrylic glass front, available in three different options. Exclusive Layflat Binding with thick 104 pages in glossy finish. Over thirty-six full-color images, featuring eighteen artworks, and never-published-before sketches.
30 x 30 cm, 3 cm deep (2 kg weight). ISBN: 9789083098692.
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