Identity

• Photographer
  Cara Louwman
• Agency / Studio
  Cara Louwman Photography

'I am who I am, that's all there is. I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was effected by mine' (phrases from the book Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie). Identity is also formed by the interior of the old Dutch canal house from 1650 in Leiden.

Cara Louwman (The Netherlands, 1967) is a contemporary fine art photographer specialized in creating images that tells a story. Inspired by her personal memories and influenced by different cultures, she uses photography as a mean to stage an idea and to present new perspectives on contemporary subjects. Her photographs are characterized by the use of multiple layers. Sometimes literally, like her staged still lifes in her studio. She creates images that are often different from a direct representation of reality.