Commercial portfolio on request
For prints and commissions: mayte@maytebreed.com
I run a photographic practice based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2024, I graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, after receiving a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies with a focus on Biology from the University of Amsterdam.
Drawing on my background in Biology, I approach photography as my research method of the everyday. Consistent observation and natural curiosity allow me to dissect the unnoticed. Through the medium of photography, I focus on human interactions with their environment like artificial representations in urban settings, encounters with plants and animals, and glimpses through humid windows. This results in images with a sense of ease.
By careful pairings and different media - photography, moving images, installations, and bookmaking - I combine moments in time from a world that others only occasionally notice.
2025 (upcoming)
Galerie Jochem, Sanquin, Amsterdam
Unseen, Gallery Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2024
Art The Hague, Gallery Curated artwork, The Hague
Best of Graduates 2024, Gallery Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Flowing Forward in Closed Cycles, Paradise, The Hague
Graduation Show 2024, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Flowing Forward in Closed Cycles, NWO Life 2024, Egmond aan Zee
2023
As Above, So Below, The Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague
2022
We Do/Are Photography, Internationale Photoszene Köln, Cologne
Prizes and nominations
2024
RM Photo Talent Prize - won
Lakeside Collection Award - nominated
Het Stadsarchief Amsterdam Documentaire foto-opdracht - selected
Best of Graduates 2024 - selected
Collections
Museum Voorlinden, AkzoNobel Art Foundation,
Lakeside Collection and various private collections
Education
2020-2024
BA Photography
Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
2016-2019
BA Future Planet Studies, major Biology
University of Amsterdam
2015-2016
BA Biology
University of Amsterdam