Honorable Mention
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DESCRIPTION
The photographs from this series are made through my fear of going through loneliness.Three ½ years ago, after I became seriously ill, my partner told me that he didn’t know whether he would stay with me. He said he did not want to be with a sick woman.
We had had a long, loving relationship. I asked him not to give up on our love simply because, for the first time, we had to experience a difficult time. He agreed that he would do this.
Two weeks after our conversation he cheated on me with a woman he had never met before. Then he left me to begin a relationship with her.
I lost all trust in the man I deeply loved. I lost trust in life and in myself because I truly had felt and believed that I was living with an honest and loving person.
Still after 3 ½ years the most difficult thing for me is fear, the fear that I cannot trust myself. I am in an constant struggle that I want to be able to trust again and to be vulnerable but at the same time time feeling the fear that I cannot find that trust in myself.
While knowing that I only can find confidence in myself if I am able to face loneliness my fear of pain is too tremendous to do this.
AUTHOR
Susanne Middelberg, www.susannemiddelberg.nl
After completing a modern dance education at the Higher school for Arts in Arnhem, she graduated in 1998 from the Academy for Visual Arts, from the photography department.
Since then she has worked as a freelance photographer making independent work and by order of magazines and theater dance posters.
Susanne specializes in portrait and theater- dance photography.