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Where did our child reveries go? Her artistry owes much to the notions and techniques she learned as a performer: approaching spaces as scenery and people as characters.

She approaches her subjects from behind the curtain.

Knijff invites us to explore a world of her making: steeped in a theatrical frame.

In a furtive moment, the children permit the photographer to capture a glimpse of their greatest aspirations.

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om September 7 through October 13, will have a solo show at in Seattle.

The photographer looks at the stories and tales children grow up hearing.

Certainly, this unique background in theater is reflected in the photographic universe Sofie Knijff invites us to explore.

In line with a long tradition of classical portrait photography, reminiscent of classic Dutch painting, her work stands out for its ability to meld seamlessly into one image the documentary and the fabricated, the real and the imaginary.

In their other world, children appear as princes and princesses, heroes, shamans, chiefs, and spirits.

She began her artistic trajectory studying theatre and received her diploma in theater performance in 1998 from the Toneelacademie in Maastricht NL.