Dutch visual artist & photographer Sanne Wijdenes (2001), started expressing herself as Hartenjager at the age of 14. When she created an anonymous Instagram account called Hartenjager, which was mostly used for her poetry at the time. The name stems from her constant chase to feel love, Hartenjager translates to heart hunter.

She feels a strong need to visualize what the speed of her mind can’t pinpoint in words. The artist works mostly with film and her works are created through the embrace of chance, by using methods as filmsouping, multiple exposures and working without a frame

She makes a conscious decision to stay playful during the proces of creating. This to keep the element of surprise that makes analog photography so special.

“I once believed I had to choose one version of myself, something consistent, coherent, contained. But I am none of those things. And neither is my work.”

She considers her work to be fragments,
depicted by characters of hidden identities, identities she wrote off as made-up, escapised fairytales that once felt like fiction. Dreamscapes considered separate from meaning, yet always leads to back to reality.

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