Mariska Karto is a photographer/illustrator born in Suriname (South-America) and raised in Holland
She started her artistic photography in 2010 with the urge to express her innerworld.
What started as a urge to express her innerworld, is meanwhile mainly
inspired, by the old world (she loves the magic of the old and dusty
world), the magic of woman and the struggle of human emotions.
A part of her work is translated in visuals from dark to bright.
Human feeling is the key that inspires her, human development related to spirituality is also an important factor.
Her images tells about stories of a world deep within us. They show us a
dark world and secret atmospheres, but they also show us a dreamy mood
of a tender and soft dreamworld.
If everything is too much, if the feeling overflows, a new dimension
excists. In this dimension Mariska shoot her visual storytelling images.
Mariska is a big fan of magical realism. She takes the term literally, a
mixture of realistic photography and digital techniques.
She's balancing on the border between reality and dream, ...between photography and the art of painting...
Yeah what I find most interesting about her work is that limbo between painting and photography...these really look like oil paintings in how soft the edges are and with the inner glow of each hue. The subject matter is very traditional, which is a funny combination with her use of digital editing.
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