ABOUT

Robin de Puy (b. 1986) has lived for several years in Wormer, a small village surrounded by water just north of Amsterdam. Drawn throughout her career to the mythology and visual language of the American countryside, she discovered during the pandemic that the landscape on her own doorstep held a strikingly similar sense of mystery and possibility. The same distinctive characters, quiet rituals, and local landmarks she had long sought across rural America were, unexpectedly, close to home.

Following intuition rather than a fixed plan, De Puy began photographing the people she encountered. An eleven-year-old shaman led her barefoot through forbidden terrain. Four giggling brothers piled into the back seat of her car. A palm reader handed her the keys to his house moments after they met. Each encounter opened the door to another, gradually revealing a community shaped by generosity, imagination, and chance.

What emerged is more than a photographic series. It is a meditation on belonging, coincidence, and the quiet magic of everyday life, revealing a place where the familiar becomes uncanny and where unexpected encounters gradually formed a world in which De Puy herself found a sense of home.