Christian van der Kooy is a Dutch artist working with photography, short films and audioscapes. He has been working on long-term projects in Eastern Europe, around the Black Sea and the Caucasus.
Van der Kooy investigates the characteristics and habits of the people, and the history and topography of the region. He is particularly interested in the mystical relationship between people and their environment...
He publishes in 2017 with The Eriskay Connection the photobook "Anastasiia", the complex story of a declaration of love by a young Ukrainian student to her foreign lover and to her homeland.
© Portrait taken from the artsit's FB profile
Presentation by The Eriskay Connection: "Anastasiia is a declaration of love from a Kyivan student to her foreign lover and her native land, Ukraine. Through parallel streams of documentary images, Skype screenshots and texts, a dialogue is reconstructed between Anastasiia and her lover, the photographer Christian van der Kooy. The book covers a period of...