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Kim Van Liefferinge
@kimvanlief.bsky.social
Belgian-American photographer and archaeologist exploring visual histories and material cultures.

Website: https://studioceleste.art/
Substack: kimvanlief.substack.com

All images are my own unless stated otherwise.
Pinned
Lichens always stop me in my tracks. They’re not plants but rather a symbiosis between a fungus and an alga living as one. And this California coastal cypress is the perfect home base for them to anchor to.

#photography #art #california #landscape
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

- Excerpt from "The Brook" (1886), Alfred Lord Tennyson

#photography #poetry #landscapephotography #art #river
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There's no sunset like a California sunset.

#photography #art #landscapephotography #california
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
More fallscapes 🍂 🍁

#photography #art #landscape #utah
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Time for some fallscapes.

#photography #art #landscapephotography #utah
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

—Robert Frost, 1923

#photography #art #california #tahoe #seasons
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📸✨ Read my interview with #VisualArtJournal about my photography project Through the Fog—and the journey that shaped me as an artist.

#photography #art #fineartphotography
Kim Van Liefferinge – Visual Art Journal – Art Magazine
visualartjournal.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
September 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Painterly photography

#photography #dailyart #art #macro
August 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
August 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My research background deeply shapes my work. For "Imperial Harvest," I explored food history to uncover what it reveals about the European exploitation of the Americas.

Shortlisted for "Food Politics," World Food Photography Awards 2023.

More: studioceleste.art/imperial-har...

#photography #art
August 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I love the things,
with their infinite details,
each one with its own
invisible soul,
tingling with the light
of simple perfection.

Pablo Neruda – Ode to Common Things, 1954

#photography #poetry #art
August 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Reposted by Kim Van Liefferinge
August 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Foggy morning at Rattlesnake Lake, WA.

#photography #art #dailyart #pacificnorthwest #WA
August 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A wave crashes down on the rocks below
shattering into a thousand drops,
free at last in clouds of steam,
drifting towards a new beginning.

#photography #poetry #art #hawaii
August 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"Through the Fog," a project exploring the tension between conservation and industry at Point Reyes National Seashore, CA.

studioceleste.art/through-the-...

#photography #art #california #pointreyes #tuleelk
August 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
August 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
June 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Early America in photos, “singing the songs of the people everywhere, whether it’s the butcher, the baker or the candlestick maker.”

#photography #art #exhibition #met #waltwhitman
‘It was the people’s art’: exhibition explores mysteries of early American photography
The New Art at the Met, an unusual array of photos taken between 1839 and 1910, reveals an unexpected history
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.

Excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Cloud, 1820

#photography #dailyphoto #art #WA #skagitvalley
May 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Look down sometimes.

#photography #dailyphoto #art #beach
April 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by Kim Van Liefferinge
Chilling and enjoying the view
#photography #sunset #landscape #fjord #water #stavanger
March 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A quiet, eerie morning down by the waterfront.

#photography #dailyphoto #fog #art #wallart
April 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,
leading to the most amazing view.
May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
May your rivers flow without end.

Edward Abbey — Desert Solitaire, 1968

#photography #dailyphoto #art #landscape #utah
April 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM