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Bernard Coops is a Dutch photographer and visual artist whose work explores how imagery can touch what often remains unspoken. By approaching photography as a sensory and embodied process, he develops a visual language in which distortion, repetition, transparency, and scale take center stage.

The images are associative, metaphorical, and fragmentary. He works with shadows, reflections, textures, with elements that disappear, return, or slip between layers. Some motifs echo through the work, like memories or inherited patterns. The photographs offer no conclusions, but provoke questions, even disorientation. Not to create distance, but to invite the viewer to feel, to wonder, to reimagine.

While rooted in his own story, the power of the work lies in what it unlocks in others. In the space between image and interpretation, a quiet meeting takes place.