Bleak Beauty – Dutch Photography by Jetty Kolobaric

By: Stephanie Kay-Kok

Photographer Jetty Kolobaric lives in The Netherlands, where winters are cold, gray and wet, but not without beauty. By photographing Dutch scenery in black & white, or with sparse color, Jetty captures the wintery bleakness and beauty at once. She uses a variety of techniques to make each picture interesting, presenting the same scene in several lights. “I use it all,” she says. “Digital, analogue, paint on negatives, layers of colors, through the viewfinder, whatever, whenever…”

To see more of Jetty’s photography, visit her website, blog, or Etsy shop.