Amsterdam based photographer Melissa Schriek’s work explores the border between staged and documentary photography, using her photographs as a tool to raise questions about how we relate to one another and our environment. In Melissa’s images, the human body transforms in to a means of expression, with the city as a backdrop for her intricately choreographed works to perform.





































Melissa’s short film The Shape of Summer is an ode to a season that always feels too brief. The work explores summer as a fleeting, dreamlike state—something that slips away before it can be fully grasped.