The poppy/poppy is a beautiful flower and symbolizes freedom. The flowers were dried, pressed and photographed with a special lighting technique. This makes them seem to dance on the canvas. Poppies are enormously fragile. Therefore, the drying press goes with them into the field. Immediately after picking they go between the slabs. And over a month later they are carefully taken out, placed on the glass plate and photographed.
Anjo Kan (b. 1968) graduated as an all-round photographer from De Nederlandse Fotovakschool in Apeldoorn in 1994.
During and after her studies she specialized in all facets of photography at Kunstdrukkerij Mercurius.
Since 1996 she has worked as an independent photographer for various television broadcasters and publishers of newspapers, books and..
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