About

Xandra van Rossem (Eemnes), grew up in a musical and artistic family with a father, a jazz musician and art painter, and her mother is a mezzo-soprano. She mainly focused on a career as a jazz singer and took singing lessons at the Hilversum Conservatory. Eventually, in 1993, she graduated as a goldsmith during the School of Art in Amsterdam, where she received two master’s degrees. After working as a graphic designer and photo editor, she developed a preference for photography. She uses vintage lenses on a compact camera to create subtle effects like blurred depths, light emitted, and shadows in the picture, her work is sure to be called experimental.  

As she describes herself, she has been a jazz singer for more than thirty years of her life, alongside all of my artistic pursuits, and that is where my origins lie. Finally (2013), I made a crossover to street photography. It was a good opportunity to get in touch with people’s different ways of life and gain self-knowledge, in which I practice Advaita Vedanta teachings. These encounters gave a new direction to my photography. They are multiple portraits of individuals through non-staged images, but a spontaneous self-taught form of classical photography where each individual could translate their story into images.

It is a journey into my subconscious that I have laid a foundation for through various philosophical knowledge, including many forms of meditation and self-studies that I have worked out during my projects.

Xandra’s artistic photography is a collection of different interpretations that come together in a universal language. The images consist of philosophical elements and are also playful. The collages are a collection of images that come together to tell a tale of symbolism that is without significance and raw.