Fine Art nominee

These still lifes were made with a Burke & James Press camera with an Ilex Paragon anastigmat 5,5 inch f:4.5 lens. Long exposures directly on to 9 x 12 cm. photographic black & white paper and/or photographic color paper, creating a negative. These photographs consist out of multiple layers overlapping, like opinions that differ from one another. A series about seemingly trivial and undefined objects that are getting attended to.

For my 9th birthday my mother gave me a beautiful Kodak Brownie box camera. I remember taking pictures on the beach and stopping the waves for less than a second, it was magical. At the Academy of Arts were I studied Graphic Design and got a bachelor in Illustration I used the camera mainly to capture something that I could use in my design or drawing, or to reproduce these works I created. It must have been 15 years ago that I really started with serious photography. Better digital cameras were becoming available, I bought one using a subsidy I received for my work as an artist. But, with the digital cameras evolving, I turned more and more towards analog photography, buying old cameras and experimenting with analog techniques. Now I use vintage and antique cameras, from a big mahogany French 'full plate' camera to a small Japanese 'half frame' camera. When I get to view the world trough fantastic old lenses from brands like Voigtländer, Berthiot or Goerz there arises a feeling I can touch time.