Ines Vansteenkiste-Muylle is an Amsterdam based photographer and director who is born in 1997 in Leuven, Belgium.

Ines graduated in 2019 at Luca School of Arts Brussels. She won the Graduation contest of De Morgen 2018 with her bachelor project. One year later she was shortlisted for the Unseen Dummy award with “Grits/Grids and Conversations” a documentary project about an Afro-American family that learned her a lot about her white privileges and the unfair history for people of color. 

Ines combines her interest in fashion with her socially engaged subjects. Her curiosity leads her in her photographic and directing work. Talking to people and connecting with them is very important to Ines. She learns about communities she is not always part of by portraying them in their most beautiful way.  Her directing debut (2021) was a project where she searched for common elements, like love, in our polarized society. The short film was about what love means for a non-binary person who is imbedded in the LGBTQ+ community. It got an award in London and was shown in Amsterdam and Milano. She went to Curacao and Surinam for De Volkskrant to learn about the colonial history of The Netherlands and got inspired by Caribbean beauty of human there. Ines used this inspiration for her shortfilm 'Fruit of Our Labour' in collaboration with  fashion designer Marc Martha. Most of Ines' recent projects have one theme in common: community and what it is about. Her projects are a fusion of documentary and fashion work.