Decoding the Powerful Narratives Behind These Surreal Photos

The work of Amsterdam-based artist Scarlett Hooft Graafland is humorous and charming, spilling over colour, but to assume that this is all there is to it would be to miss out on the innate power of her images. Travelling to some of the most demanding and difficult-to-reach places in the world, Graafland spends many months working with local people to extract the essence of their cultural history, using everything she finds out along the way to inform curious performances she…