Hannelore Knuts

These photographs originate from an archival box that remained intact throughout the model's highly nomadic years of international travel. Taken over several years while working abroad, often in hotel rooms and temporary residences, the images were never intended for publication. Instead, photography functioned as a personal creative practice and a way to document moments of solitude, observation, homesickness, and self-reflection.

Having studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp before pursuing a modelling career, Knuts returned to the medium during a period of personal uncertainty. The photographs presented here largely date from that time and offer an intimate glimpse into life behind the public world of fashion.

More than twenty years after first imagining the project as a book, Knuts rediscovered the original selection of photographs in the archival box. Together, the images form a poetic visual record of travel, memory, and lived experience. As Knuts describes it: “If life is a novel, then my photography is poetry.”

Ready for pick up in the gallery from 23 June onwards.