Annelie Hendriks; my life in

Multimedia Stories and Photomontages

Ups and downs in my life brought me to my new ambition and life fulfilment:

Multimedia Storytelling

My main source of inspiration has always been my travels, together with my soulmate Manus or just for my work. Such as our trip by car to Morocco in 1971, to Russia in 1973, by train back and forth to China in 1975 or to Tanzania in 1976 and Syria in 1977. And all those other years to all those other cultures, every trip was a highlight in itself. My work in the field of intercultural communication, management and consultancies strengthened my experience in and with other cultures. Living in Thailand for over twenty years and having worked as a volunteer for 15 years in the Samsara Foundation deepened that. All those experiences and inspirations yielded so much unique material in image and writing.

It was the low points, the sudden death of Manus in 2015 and then the death of my parents in 2017 that led me to digitise the films of my grandfather, the films, photos, diaries and drawings of my parents, the many letters and emails Manus and I have written to each other, the thousand postcards that Manus wrote to his mother every third day during all of our travels, the many photos we took during our lives and our work and so much more. After two years of scanning, that wealth of information was stored on a hard disk.

But then? It took a while before I knew that. When I read a multimedia story from the Washington Post, I suddenly knew. Everything comes together in Multimedia Storytelling; image material and documents, memories and experiences, personal processing and new creativity, archiving and creating new products.

You can find these stories on this website under the headings “Multimedia Stories” and “Photo Stories“.

                                                                                                     Photomontages

And then Covid brought the world to a standstill. I was stuck in Australia for 20 months and could not return to my country of residence Thailand. During those 20 months, I took photography courses and was taught how to make photomontage art by Ken Ball, an Australian photographer. That gave me new possibilities to use my photo material in a different way.

Those results can be found on this website under the headings “Photo Montage Art“ and “Frozen Images“.

I am happy that I can share this with everyone who is interested.

Annelie Hendriks

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