AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos presents Four Photographers Unseen, a group exhibition featuring Mayte Breed, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Kevin Osepa, and Gilleam Trapenberg. The exhibition opened on Saturday, September 20, and runs through Sunday, October 26.

This group exhibition of four photographers was originally planned for Unseen Photo Fair. While the edition planned for September 2025 in Amsterdam has been canceled, Unseen will return next year, joining forces with Art Rotterdam. In the meantime, the scheduled Unseen presentation is being hosted at the gallery.

Scarlett Hooft Graafland

Scarlett Hooft Graafland is known for creating staged photographs in remote landscapes, from Bolivian salt flats to Arctic ice, Icelandic lava fields, and Madagascar beaches. Working with local communities, she builds playful and surreal interventions, captured on medium-format film with little editing. Her works, recently surveyed in the retrospective Mesmerizing at Museum Panorama Mesdag (2025), mix humor, ritual, and ecological awareness. The results are poetic, visually striking images that stay both light and profound.

Scarlett Hooft Graafland’s work is included in collections of museums worldwide, like Fotografiska, Stockholm; the museum of Photography, Seoul; Landskrona museum Sweden; Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia, and Huis Marseille, Amsterdam. Her work has shown at numerous international exhibitions such as MOCCA Museum in Toronto; MAC museum in Lima, Peru; Dubai Photo; Rencontres d’Arles, and Photo Phnom Penh in Cambodia. She received a BFA at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands, and a MFA at Parsons School of Design, New York.

Mayte Breed

Amsterdam-based photographer and RM Photo Talent Award 2024 winner Mayte Breed presents Reading between the lines. Inspired by the feminist collective Matrix and their manifesto Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment, Breed reflects on how cities are shaped largely by and for men. Her photographs capture moments where nature softens or interrupts the built environment—acts of care such as a branch brushing a car or pine needles caught in a spiderweb. Through these staged and found encounters, Breed proposes how attentiveness, softness, and care can reshape the spaces we inhabit.

Mayte Breed (b. 1997) is an artist from Egmond, based in Amsterdam. Her artistic approach is shaped by her background in Biology, which she studied at the University of Amsterdam, before she completed a BA in Photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, in 2024. In 2024 her graduation work was selected for the Best of Graduates exhibition at Gallery Ron Mandos, and she won the RM Photo Talent Award. Her work Ringweg was selected and funded by Het Stadsarchief Amsterdam and obtained by their archive. In 2025, she participate a residency in Lisbon, and her first solo-exhibition opens end of September at Sanquin, Amsterdam. Her work is part of the collections of Museum Voorlinden, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Lakeside Collection, KPMG and various private collections.

Gilleam Trapenberg

Curaçao-born and Amsterdam-based artist Gilleam Trapenberg turns away from Caribbean postcard clichés to reveal lived reality: nightlife, faith, and the traces of colonialism. In Tropicana, he assembles c-prints, stamps, polaroids, air fresheners, stickers, and rosaries on thin steel plates. What began as fragments of studio research becomes the work itself, a shifting magnetic wall of memory and everyday life. This installation was recently shown in Circulate – Photography Beyond Frames at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where his process was presented as final artwork.

A graduate of The Hague’s Royal Academy of Art, Trapenberg first moved to the Netherlands at 19 years old. In the years since, his works have been exhibited at institutions such as Foam Photography Museum and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, while his first photobook, Big Papi, was published in 2017. He was the 2020 recipient of Foam’s Florentine Riem Vis grant and was one of five shortlisted artists for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023.

Kevin Osepa

Curaçaoan–Dutch artist Kevin Osepa explores Afro-Caribbean identity, Brua spirituality, queerness, and memory. In this exhibition, he presents La Última Ascensión (2022), a short film set on Curaçao where the mystical and the everyday overlap. The film reflects on how ritual and belief shape daily life. Osepa moves between photography and film, always grounded in heritage and storytelling.

Kevin Osepa was born in 1994 in Willemstad, Curaçao, and lives and works in Amsterdam. He graduated in 2017 as a photographer from the Utrecht University of the Arts. Osepa’s film La Última Ascensión (2022) won a Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival for Best Short Film. Earlier, he was nominated for the Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize (2018), and in 2023 he received both the Charlotte Köhler Prize and the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts.