I’m Sonya van de Ven, a fine art photographer exploring the beauty hidden in quiet places. Working primarily in black and white, I focus on architecture, sculpture, and overlooked details — subjects that reveal presence without demanding it.
My photographs often capture a moment suspended — not staged, but observed. I’m drawn to structure, light, and the subtle emotion in form. Whether I’m photographing a towering façade or the shadow on a weathered column, I try to make space for reflection.
Over time, photography became my clearest way to express something I’d been chasing through other forms — painting, writing, even film. It’s the medium through which I see rhythm, balance, and atmosphere most clearly.
In 2025, my work received Honorable Mentions in both the Julia Margaret Cameron Award and the Pollux Awards, and I was selected as a finalist for a solo exhibition at Dacia Gallery in New York. Selected works will be exhibited at FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona.
I’m based in Germany and continue to shoot wherever silence, contrast, and structure intersect.
Project Statement
In Monuments of Stillness, architecture and fleeting moments become vessels of memory, and silence bears witness to what endures. These photographs trace where solitude, light, and form meet — not through spectacle, but through quiet poise.
Each image offers a different kind of stillness: from a statue suspended in observation, to wings caught in a silent threshold, to facades and arches where history breathes in shadow and rhythm. Together, they form a visual poem — reflections of time, hope, and the delicate balance between motion and pause.
Through geometry, contrast, and atmosphere, the series reveals a language of resilience — a world stilled, but never static.
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