Camille Renée Devid is a multidisciplinary, lens-based artist born in Amsterdam and raised in Curaçao. Working across photography, archival material, self-portraiture, poetry, and painting, her practice explores identity, memory, ancestry, belonging, and human connection.

Born between multiple cultures and histories, Devid grew up navigating questions of origin and belonging. With Dutch and Surinamese roots interwoven with Chinese, Portuguese, Creole, Indonesian, and Jewish lineages, she became increasingly interested in the stories we inherit and the ways they continue to shape us. Rather than approaching identity as something fixed, her work embraces it as an ongoing process of discovery.

At the heart of her practice lies the body as a living archive. A place where personal and collective histories intersect, where past and present coexist, and where memory settles into gesture, emotion, and imagination. Through layered portraits, landscapes, double exposures, archival fragments, and painted interventions, she explores the visible and invisible traces carried across generations.

Color functions both as lineage and as feeling. The light of a Curaçao childhood, the greys of loss, the sepias of care, and the hues of inherited memory become part of a visual language through which personal and collective histories are explored. Photography becomes a means of mapping what cannot always be seen: the connections between people, places, and generations.

While her work often begins with personal experience, its intention reaches beyond autobiography. Devid creates spaces for reflection, inviting viewers to consider their own histories and to recognize the connections that exist between one another. Through themes of memory, migration, ancestry, love, and loss, her work asks how a deeper understanding of ourselves might lead to a deeper understanding of others.

Her ongoing project Discovering My Colors brings these questions together through photography, archives, abstraction, and poetry. In 2025, the project was awarded the Photo Folio Review Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles. It will be presented during Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026 and has been nominated for the Madame Figaro Photo Award 2026.

Education

2010 - 2013 Fotoacademie Amsterdam

2014 Workshop, Antoine D’Agata, Rencontres d’Arles

2015 Masterclass, Anders Petersen, Eyes in progress

2016 - 2017 Le Masterklass, Klavdij Sluban

2022 - 2023 Le Masterklass, Klavdij Sluban

Exhibitions & Publications

2013 D’light graduation exhibition Photo Academy at Loods 6

2014 Exhibition See Me Space, Scope Art Miami

2014 Solo exhibition, My Other Side, Schilt Gallery, Amsterdam

2014 Book presentation - My Other Side at Unseen

2014 Book presentation - My Other Side at Paris Photo

2014 Group slide show, Under My Skin, Rencontres d’ Arles

2014 Publication in Gup New Dutch Photography Talent 2015

2014 Exhibition Gup New Dutch Talent 5&33 Gallery Art’otel, Amsterdam

2015 Exhibition Pantheon Galerie, Amsterdam

2015 Exhibition 44 Gallery, Brugge Foto

2016 Book Exhibition Athens Photofestival

2016 Group exhibition, Intimacy under the Milky Way, PAK, Gistel

2016 Publication in Off the Wall, Cultures Photo nr 9
2017 Group exhibition, Photoville New European Photography Talent 2017

2017 Group exhibition Questo Paradiso, Dordrecht

2017 Group exhibition 44 Gallery Pop-Up, Knokke

2017 Group slide show, If suddenly we no longer were, Voies Off, Arles

2018 Exhibition, International Photo Festival Leiden

2026 Exhibition, winner of the Photo Folio Review, Rencontres d’ Arles

Book

2014 My Other Side, Grey Matters 5 - published by Schilt Publishing

2016 Road, Preto Collective - published by The Unknown Books

2026 Discovering my Colors artist book - (November 2026)

Awards

2014 Mifa, Moscow International Foto Awards - Honorable mention, fine art/nudes – Body vs. Mind

2015 Px3, Prix de la photographie Paris - Honorable mention, fine art/abstract - Sore ground

2015 Px3, Prix de la photographie Paris - Honorable mention, fine art/ abstract - My Other Side

2015 IPA, International Photography award - Honorable mention, fine art/nudes – Sore ground

2015 Mifa, Moscow International Foto Awards - Honorable mention, fine art/abstract - Sore ground

2015 Mifa, Moscow International Foto Awards - Honorable mention, people/child.- The great teachers

2017 International Photo Festival Leiden, Shortlist - Down To My Bones

2025 Photo Folio Review, Rencontres d’ Arles - Winner - Discovering My Colors

2026 Prix de la photo madame Figaro Arles, Shortlist - Discovering My Colors