My images arise in alignment with the moment I witness.I am Natalie Verstappen, always moving, always looking around, travel brought photography into my world, and photography shapes the way I view the world.
Belgian, and girl from the world, currently calling Malta home.
Photography gave me a way to connect with all the beauty I feel I am honored to witness. What draws me in is the play of light on a surface, the lines and curves that give the world its structure. Action, interaction of the elements. Sometimes playful, sometimes forceful… sometimes very still.
The elements, the world, the moments that have invited me to capture their magic have become teachers for life. Patience, resilience, gratitude, presence have become key in my day to day life through slowing down to connect with what happens in front of me, around me, and even within me.
Releasing the images as short stories of a moment lived, gives me an opportunity to let go of that moment. This way Each image, each series receives the power to hold something waiting to be discovered and rewritten, again and again, following those that look.
So I do not ask you to see what I saw. I ask only that you look — and let whatever wants to be felt, be felt.
I travel · I feel · I connect · I heal