who we are
Founder & director
Marga Rotteveel
Marga Rotteveel is the co-founder and director of the photography organization Docking Station. She studied photography at AKV|St.Joost in Breda. After graduating she got involved in the fields of curation, advising and project initiation. She began her career as a curator at Photofestival Naarden and went on to become the creative director in a later edition of the festival. In 2010 Rotteveel started her own independent business, Photorevolt, where she curated and organized shows in the Netherlands and abroad. Rotteveel has lectured in the Bachelor’s and Master’s photography programmes at AKV|St.Joost and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) for many years. Alongside her work at the academy, she is a jury member and portfolio reviewer at several photography events and an advisor to photographers. She has been a member of the supervisory board of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam for a number of years.
She guides many (young) photographers on their way to the best form of presentation for their work and searches for new paths to reach audiences through targeted platforms.
She strongly believes in collaboration and sharing her network and expertise; her aim is to connect, inspire and support visual storytellers so that they are able to take their work to diverse audiences. For this reason, she founded in 2016 the visual storytelling platform Docking Station (Amsterdam, NL) with photographer Anaïs López.
Founder
Anaïs López
Anaïs resigned her work for Docking Station in January 2021 to return fully to her own practice as a visual storyteller.
Anaïs López is a visual artist based in Amsterdam who works with still and moving images. She graduated from the Royal Art Academy in The Hague in 2006 and did a Masters at the Art Academy St. Joost in Breda researching narrative structures and documentary strategies (2010).
She is the co-founder and was the co-director the last five years of Docking Station. She believes strongly in sharing knowledge. For this reason she founfed in 2016 the visual storytelling platform (Amsterdam, NL) with Marga Rotteveel.
Anaïs works as an independent photographer and makes long term projects. Anaïs López is a storyteller above all else and her work reflects this. She is seen as a pioneer in her field, using multi-media on different levels. Her work has won many prizes in recent years, Her latest project ‘The Migrant was nominated for a Golden Calf (Dutch Film Festival) and won two other prestigious prizes: The Director Guild award for best digital storytelling and the Zilveren Camera award for best storytelling. It’s not only her multi-media work that wins awards. Her latest artist book won the award for best self-published book at Photo España and the bronze medal for best book worldwide at the Leipzig Buchemesse. She was also awarded the title of Master Storyteller by the Narrative journalism foundation. Her work has been exhibited worldwide in museums and at festivals.