Photography

Ever since I got my first camera at the age of five, I take photographs while moving through space and time. As a teenager I learned to print my own photo's and experimented a lot in the dark room. I picked up photography again right after successfully finishing art school, in the directions of painting, drawing and graphic art. Photography is the most direct way to translate aspects of reality into still images. Moving through space and time I’m connected to the landscape. I use photography to fathom the scenery through a sequence of moments, concentrating on every aspect of my surrounding, sometimes even mapping it bit by bit. Finding a spot of interest, I can spend hours on the same spot, taking photographs of nearly every inch, approaching, distancing, giving meaning to small and simple things and at the same time capture the greatness of the incorporating surrounding, resulting in strong and powerful images, sometimes with a certain cinematographic tension. At the same time my photographs are graphic and silent. The process of painting and drawing is still important and visible in my work that's why I also treat (found) photographic images as digital canvas, which leads to animations as part of (interactive) installations and environments. I also objectify images and all my works are interconnected in a way. I use my website to enable this experience of an ever changing connectivity. This blog is to lay the focus on my photographic images.