Jésula Toussaint Visser aka Zuzou (2000) is a self-taught starting photographer who’s work is focussed around self-portraiture.

Colour has always been a loaded word as she navigates through the confronting and complex nature it appears to have in her life. She found comfort in the lack of colour as she works mostly in black and white appreciating the certain simplicity it caries with, while simultaneously discovering a fascination with how black and white is still able to unravel in a full range of shades.

“When I was seventeen I was lucky enough to visit an exhibition, in this enormous reputable museum, of a photographer who’s work just consisted out of selfportraits. I remember thinking how truly amazing it was for a full exhibiton to be standing on only portraits of a black woman, and selfportraits at that! The empowerment I felt right there is what has carried me every day since then.“

Based in The Netherlands