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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge

@studioceleste.bsky.social
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Belgian-American photographer and archaeologist exploring visual histories and material cultures. Website: studioceleste.art Substack: kimvanlief.substack.com All images are my own unless stated otherwise.

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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exciting news! My latest project, Terra Incognita, is part of IPA's 2026 Official Professional Selection ☺️. Interested in more? Check studioceleste.art/terra-incogn...
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I don’t just shoot nature—most of my professional days are spent in the world of food photography. Honestly? The difference is smaller than you’d think. Here’s one of the literal fruits of my labor. Photography: w/ Hanh Nguyen Food stylist: Joanna Caballero #photography #foodphotography #salad
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I’ve always been drawn to early photography techniques—tactile and slow-moving in a time when everything feels increasingly vapid. Read along as I use anthotypes to delve deeper into events that shaped our collective memory. #photography #WWI #anthotypes #thegreatwar #art
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Art Project: In Flanders Fields
Thinking about the Great War in the wake of growing international tension
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Nature is a storyteller, carving its narratives onto the landscape. Can you tell where I recorded these beautiful patterns? #photography #macro #fineart #california
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Diving a little deeper into my latest project. #photography #landscapephotography #art #traveling
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Terra Incognita
A Personal Cartography of Uncertainty
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I like chasing challenging weather because it gives you magical moments like this. A quick break in the rain and Cannon Beach delivered. #photography #landscapephotogaphy #cannonbeach #oregon #fineart
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
From the rustic beaches of Whidbey to the dreamy forests of Orcas. I’m on island time. #photography #landscapephotogrpajy #PNW #orcasisland #islandtime
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Beautiful Whidbey Island, WA. #photography #landscapephotography #PNW
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Sneak peek of my latest project, "Terra Incognita". It is a meditation on departure, estrangement, and the unstable geography of home. #photography #landscapephotography #pnw #whidbey #fineart
Misty landscape photo of a Whidbey Island beach.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Ferry sunset #photography #landscapephotography #nature #PNW #pugetsound
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Haystack Rock from a quieter angle. #photography #landscapephotography #fineart #nature #cannonbeach #oregon
The famous "haystack" rock at Cannon Beach, OR.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Most people go to Pfeiffer Beach for the pink sand. I spent most of my time with this wind-shaped cypress instead. #photography #landscapephotography #nature #fineart #bigsur #california
Wind-shaped Monterey cypress with a wide, flattened canopy and twisting trunks, growing on a coastal hillside beneath a pale blue sky.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Wood waves. Beautiful how the same patterns repeat everywhere, isn’t it? #photography #macrophotography #california #fineart
Close-up photograph of weathered wood with flowing, wave-like grain patterns, deep cracks, and layered textures in muted gray and brown tones.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I quietly sat and waited for the moment a wave met the rock at the center of the frame—now hidden. The California coast has a way of rewarding patience. #photography #fineart #landscapephotography #BigSur #California
Low-contrast ocean landscape along the California coast, with soft, misty light blending sea and sky.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Waterfall on the Olympic Peninsula. I experimented with exposure times and landed on this one—soft flow, but with individual streams still visible. How do you like to photograph moving water? #photography #landscapephotography #nature #PNW #fineart
Close-up photograph of a waterfall on the Olympic Peninsula, showing water flowing over dark, moss-covered rock.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Anyone else settling into a photographic theme this year? I didn’t plan one, but fog keeps showing up—here's to 2026! #photography #landscapephotography #fineart #PNW #fog
Fog drifts over a wide river on the Olympic Peninsula, with dark, fast-moving water in the foreground and a rocky riverbank leading to leafless and late-autumn trees fading into mist. Muted greens, grays, and soft gold tones dissolve into the fog, obscuring the forested hills beyond.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Ocean of logs. #photography #landscapephotography #nature #fineart #PNW
Logs are piled up on a beach in the PNW, creating the illusion of an ocean.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Pacific Northwest beach strolling. #photography #landscapephotography #art #PNW
Triangular rock formation on a deserted beach in the Olympic Peninsula.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Everyone visits the Hoh Rainforest in summer. But its true character lives in the wet months. Temperate rainforests are built on moisture and shade—conditions that turn fallen trees into nurseries and forests into layered systems of life. #photography #art #landscapephotography #PNW #hohrainforest
Moss-covered trees and dense green understory in the Hoh Rainforest, with soft light and mist filtering through the canopy in Olympic National Park.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Yes, living in the PNW can be dreary. It's wet, gray, and relentless. But it’s also atmospheric, contemplative, and breathtaking in ways that sunnier places never are. #photography #nature #landscapephotography #PNW #fineart
Foggy mountain landscape in the Pacific Northwest, with tall evergreen trees fading into mist and soft gray clouds obscuring the distant ridgeline.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My Etsy print shop is officially live ✨ 25% off today, 20% the rest of the week. Landscapes from California → the PNW. Thanks for supporting this new little corner of my work. www.etsy.com/shop/PhotoSt... #photography #landscapephotography #art #fineart
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
A bright wave crashes down on the rocks shattering into a thousand drops, free at last in clouds of steam, drifting towards a new beginning. #BlueSkyArtShow #bright #photography #landscapephotography #art #photographersOfBluesky
Waterfall, Oahu, Hawaii
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Winter is coming. #photography #landscapephotography #art #lassenvolcanicpark #volcano #snow
A wide view of the Cinder Cone area in Lassen Volcanic National Park. The foreground shows dark, porous volcanic cinder slopes with a shallow crater holding patches of late-season snow. Beyond the cone, reddish-brown volcanic ridges stretch across the scene, also dotted with white snowfields. In the distance, forested mountains rise toward a clear, pale-blue sky.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
As the season winds down, the aspens give us one last burst of autumn beauty. #photography #art #aspen #utah #landscapephotography
Bright golden aspen trees in full autumn color, their yellow leaves glowing in the sunlight. Tall white trunks rise vertically through a dense canopy, with dark evergreens and shadowed mountain slopes visible in the background. The scene feels vibrant, warm, and richly textured.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
When the sunset slips into a full-on fantasy world. #photography #art #fineart #landscape
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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
Close-up of a coastal cypress tree in Big Sur covered in long, pale strands of hanging lichen. The lichen drapes from the branches like soft curtains, with dark green foliage behind it. The shaded light highlights the layered, stringy texture.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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
turbulent mountain river at peak flow, its current foaming and swirling around jagged stones.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
There's no sunset like a California sunset. #photography #art #landscapephotography #california
California sunset with pink and purple skies and god rays shining through clouds, a coastal cypress silhouetted in the foreground.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
More fallscapes 🍂 🍁 #photography #art #landscape #utah
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Another magazine feature for my project "Through the Fog". www.curatorymagazine.com/post/kim-van... #photography #art #curatorymagazine
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Kim Van Liefferinge
Kim Van Liefferinge approaches photography with the eye of an archaeologist, looking for what lies beneath the surface of landscapes and histories. Her series “Through the Fog” follows the tule elk of...
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Time for some fallscapes. #photography #art #landscapephotography #utah
Utah mountain landscape with layered fall colors
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
📸✨ Read my interview with #VisualArtJournal about my photography project Through the Fog—and the journey that shaped me as an artist. #photography #art #fineartphotography
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Kim Van Liefferinge – Visual Art Journal – Art Magazine
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Late afternoon at Donner Lake, CA. #photography #dailyart #tahoe #california #landscape #landscapephotography
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Painterly photography #photography #dailyart #art #macro
Macro shot of little purple flowers
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Oahu, Hawaii. #photography #art #mountain #rainforest #hawaii
Steep mountain, covered in rainforest, slopes downwards in the foreground.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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
A close-up of a decaying onion, its surface covered in dark mold.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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
Closeup of seaweed on the shore
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PeetX @peet-x.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
the sun is always somewhere #landscape #cymru #clouds #mountains #photography #photographersofbluesky
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Foggy morning at Rattlesnake Lake, WA. #photography #art #dailyart #pacificnorthwest #WA
Tree stumps on the beach of Rattlesnake Lake, WA
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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
Waterfall on Oahu, Hawaii
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
"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
Elk roaming through the foggy Point Reyes landscape.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Layers of blue. #dailyart #photography #ocean #california
Ocean sight dotted with fog and seaweed.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It's that time of the year. #photography #art #dailyphoto #summer #beach #california
Colorful sunset at a California beach.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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‘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
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Look down sometimes. #photography #dailyphoto #art #beach
Seaweed washed up on the beach, almost resembling a dead bird.
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Frode Jansen @frodejansen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Chilling and enjoying the view #photography #sunset #landscape #fjord #water #stavanger
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A quiet, eerie morning down by the waterfront. #photography #dailyphoto #fog #art #wallart
View of a quiet waterfront on a misty morning, with a wooden pier extending into the water and several sailboats docked nearby. The atmosphere is still and eerie.
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Kim Celeste Van Liefferinge @studioceleste.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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
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