Hartenjager (Sanne Wijdenes, 2001) is a Dutch visual artist and photographer. Her name, Hartenjager (Dutch for Hearthunter) stems from her constant chase to feel and understand love & perception, motivated by a strong need to visualize what the speed of her mind can’t pinpoint into words.

She mostly works with film, embracing chance through experimental techniques, like film souping and multiple exposures. This process keeps her work playful and unpredictable, creating images that feel more like fragments of identities than straightforward documentation, turning images into psychological yet surreal dreamscapes.

Her practice often reflects on inner dialogue, between trauma and play, repression and imagination. She aims to draw attention to certain themes in a digestible, sometimes nostalgic way, offering moments to pause, reflect, and feel, by inviting meaning to slip through.

“I’m grateful for the moments where control slips and meaning reveals itself.”

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Sanne Wijdenes (Hartenjager), b. 2001, the Netherlands
Photographer, visual artist & stylist
Education: Crossmedia Design, ArtEZ AKI
Works with: 35mm, medium format, 16mm and Polaroid. Film soup, chemical alteration, in-camera multiple exposures
Published in: Kaltblut Magazine, Mirror Mirror Magazine
Clients: Vintáááge Magazine, Pivazyan, Justus Maria
Available for: fashion editorials, campaigns, lookbooks, styling, album artwork
Based in Utrecht, studio in Den Haag, working worldwide
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