Petra Noordkamp (1967) lives and works in Amsterdam where she studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her work has been published in many magazines and newspapers like Club Donny, San Rocco Magazine, The Purple Journal, Avenue, Volkskrant Magazine and NRC Handelsblad and she took part in numerous exhibitions. In 2012 she made her first short film The Mother, the Son and the Architect. This film was shown in an exhibition of her work in the photo museum Foam in Amsterdam and was selected for various Dutch and international film festivals and exhibitions. It won the first prize for best International short film – documentary at Arquiteturas, the film and architecture festival in Lisbon. She was an artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in the fall of 2013. In 2014 she was commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York to make a short film about Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, a land art work by the Italian artist Alberto Burri, which was screened in the Guggenheim during the retrospective of Burri in the autumn of 2015. In 2016 this film was also on show in K21 in Dusseldorf, the MAXXI in Rome and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her work explores the influence of experiences, memories, movies and dreams on the perception of architecture and the urban environment.