BIO

Joost Gerritsen, Dutch-born and based in rural Valencia since 2006, creates photography that celebrates slowness, stillness, and the hidden life of things. His work is rooted in animism—the belief that objects carry a soul—and in the subtle, quiet relationships between objects.

During his walks in the countryside, Gerritsen collects natural and discarded materials, arranging them into small, intimate still lifes. His photographs capture these moments with a Zen-like sensitivity, where silence and attention transform the ordinary into silent communicative entities.

Joost Gerritsen is part of the London Ground Collective, the Valencian PenJa'm collective and the Drawing Club Amsterdam.