Mo Verlaan

Mo Verlaan is an analogue photographer who sees the negative as a starting point, with the image undergoing a long process of experimentation and manipulation. She uses old, fragile photographic paper to make the intangible tangible. These unpredictable traces of time give the work a universal power and uniqueness.

At the end of 2022, Mo had to say goodbye to her wife Nita, her great love, muse and artistic partner. In the last two years, they worked intensively together to capture their life and love in portraits, landscapes, collages and poems, but also in the design for a large photographic installation about the dead and living olive trees in Puglia. The centuries-old olive trees died from a bacterium and became a powerful metaphor for their own situation.

In recent years, her work has gained national and international recognition. She exhibited at the Art Pride Route 2025 with a solo exhibition, participated in the group exhibition “Analogue” at KunstRuim and was selected for the Buy My Darling exhibition “Let Love Rule” at NDSM-Fuse.

At the end of 2024, she participated in the Arte Laguna exhibition at the Arsenale- Nord in Venice. In 2023, she was the overall winner of the 19th JM Cameron Award and winner of the 2nd prize at the 20th International Photography Award.