Arty Party: Photography Graduates 2025

Jasmijn Vermeeren

With  "You Don't Look Sick" Jasmijn Vermeeren investigates her experience in navigating an unseen disability. Through a sculpture of herself, a video reproduction of a recurring conversation, and a series of self-portrait collages, she examines the tension between self-perception and external projection. The body becomes a threshold where her own gaze, the societal gaze, and the camera’s gaze intersect.

Jasmijn Vermeeren is a Dutch lens-based crip artist, working within the realm of disability art. Her practice draws from lived experiences and explores her own dialogue with the able-bodied gaze, touching upon themes of identity, belonging, and normalcy.  

Anastasios Vlachos

In the photo series “Orthodox”, Vlachos explores the visibility of the Greek Orthodox Church in everyday life. Created over a period of several years in Greece, the series captures religious symbolism in personal and public spaces. Using both analog and digital photography, and presenting the images as prints suspended in space, Anastasios invites viewers to move through the work as if navigating a living environment. “Orthodox” blends personal reflection with documentary photography, while also addressing the tension between religious tradition and queer identity.

Anastasios Vlachos is a visual artist, photographer, and art director based in Amsterdam. With a background in dance, he approaches visual work through movement, rhythm, and emotion. His practice explores themes such as memory, identity, and the tension between personal and cultural narratives.

Tyler Chan
 

“EAST WEST Market” is a documentary series about Chinese communities located around the world and the individuals who are breaking traditional expectations through hip hop and self-expression. The series features rappers, dancers, DJs and tattoo artists who respectfully connect modern culture to their heritage and associated history. The title is inspired by EAST WEST Supermarket in New Jersey, once a cultural meeting point where East and West mixed, that now turned into a symbol for a broader global story of identities beyond borders.

Tyler Chan is a Chinese-American photographer from Chinatown, New York. With deep ties to his cultural roots, Tyler’s work explores stories of heritage, identity, and community through a contemporary lens. He focuses on those who challenge stereotypes and reclaim their own narrative.

Yvela Jessica

“It Means Everything Because This Is Who I Am” reflects on the lasting impact of adoption, the need for representation, and the challenge of shaping identity after profound loss. Yvela Jessica is born in Haïti and adopted into a white family in the Netherlands, she asks: How do you shape yourself when parts of you are missing? Her work navigates themes of family, friendship, belonging, and emotional absence. The result is a layered work where grief, joy, and hope can coexist.

Yvela Jessica Verhuizen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores identity, loss, and human connection. Through photography, film, poetry, and tactile materials, she creates layered installations that offer space for reflection, recognition, and healing.

Đăng-Vũ Đặng

“DOGtime Unstable Media” is a multidisciplinary series of ten works, including documentaries, photography, performances, and sculpture, that explores the personal and political dimensions of the Vietnamese diaspora. In the central film, Đặng travels to northern Vietnam in search of his roots. He processes soil from his ancestral land into ceramics, merging ritual and art while reflecting on the ethics of working with culturally sensitive materials.

Đăng-Vũ Đặng is a Dutch-Vietnamese multimedia artist whose practice focuses on cultural identity, heritage, and diasporic belonging. As a child of boat refugees and “Bắc 54”, he examines colonialism, migration, and intergenerational trauma.

Malika Badloe

“Mali Coco’s Peepshow” invites the viewer into a box built for watching. This video installation merges film, music, and spoken word within the intimate setting of a peepshow. What unfolds behind the curtain is both seductive and unsettling. Through shifting gazes and fragmented voices, the work exposes the ongoing objectification of women. Not meant as a spectacle, but as a mirror. Viewers become voyeurs and are confronted with a visual language shaped by societal norms.

Malika Badloe is a multidisciplinary artist based in Eindhoven. Her work moves between the poetic and the confrontational, through a personal and socially engaged lens. Through a layered visual language, she explores themes of sexuality, identity, and cultural taboos.

Tim Ross

For the project “Hermann”, Tim Ross uses archival material from his grandfather, dating back to World War II, as a foundation to reflect on and critique the position and power of ‘the image’. The work contemplates the depiction of violence, our interaction with visual media, and how the digital image alters and re-shapes our perception of reality. It is accompanied by a research publication, “On Politics of Perception”, which elaborates on the interrogative nature of the piece, documenting the emotional, intellectual and artistic layers inherent to it. “Hermann” engages with the complex relationship that we have with ‘the image’ as a tool for communication, and the difficulty of deciphering its meaning and authenticity.

Tim Ross is a visual artist and researcher from Germany. His practice is rooted in critically investigating themes of German heritage, violent imagery, and contemporary image culture. Primarily, he uses the image not as a definitive statement, but as a space for inquiry.

Andrés Sanjuan 

For his project “Dos Fiestas, Tres Bailes”, Andrés Sanjuan follows three individuals whose life stories navigate between desire, self-presentation, power, and survival. A former model living in a van on the coast of Tenerife, a fashion student and sex worker in Dubai, and a director in New York. Together, they reveal how fluid, ambiguous, and layered the world of beauty as a commodity can be. Through this way, Sanjuan captures the complex dynamics of the ‘beauty economy’.

Andres Sanjuan is a photographer and visual artist working between Amsterdam and Berlin. His work often focuses on moments of physical or emotional intensity, emphasizing proximity, trust, and immersive engagement.

Iyanla Etnel 

Iyanla Etnel's experimental and poetic film “Kari Den Fowru Na Oso” explores physical autonomy, memories, and the silent traces of colonial exploitation. The film moves between generations, between past and present, between what is visible and what is felt beneath the surface. It explores how the Black female body has been shaped, controlled and exploited through time, but also how it can return to itself. “Kari Den Fowru Na Oso” invites the viewer to slow down and look with different eyes. What does it mean to return to a body that for centuries was never allowed to be yours?

Iyanla Etnel is a photographer and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. In her work, she explores questions of identity, ancestry and visibility. Drawing on family stories, Afro-spirituality and the history of slavery, she seeks to contribute to greater visibility for her culture.