Two Warm Weeks

Two Warm Weeks captures the summer of a young queer couple in love.

The project follows the couple’s summer, camping in a small boring town located right in-between their respective homes in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. They photograph each other and the mundane but loving moments they spend together.

Photography on queer lives often has an activist angle, focusing on either hardship or joy of being LGBTQ+. Although these are important topics to cover, this project deliberately seeks neither, but rather focuses on the normalcy of a queer vacation — going swimming, eating pasta, and looking for ladybugs.

The couple consists of photographer Tengbeh Kamara and multidisciplinary artist Sophie Engels, who were commissioned by prestigious Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant to create this project. Besides conventional photography, Sophie also made Cyanotypes, images created not with a camera, but by picked flowers and the sun.

The caravan the two camp in plays a special role in the series. It was just purchased from Tengbeh’s parents and holds most of Tengbeh’s warmest childhood memories. This project was their first trip in the caravan as an adult and with their partner, recreating the memories they had as a child, and creating new ones together.