The smart phone is like the poleroid camera from the 1970s. At that periode, we thought the photos were beautiful. And you had the photo right in your hands. In retrospect, these poleroid photos are very time-bound. We will say the same about the photos taken with our smartphones in 30 years. the colors are …
It started by chance. I photographed a woman’s hands with her arms along her back, the right hand holding the left. She wears a purple dress. nothing else. The image intrigued me and since then I started looking for more images of people viewed from the back. It fits in nicely with the current era that you are no longer allowed to carelessly photograph people on the street because of privacy. It produces intriguing images, each with its own story. But which. As a viewer you can think of it yourself.
The color photography section contains five chapters: 1. Street photography Amsterdam, 2. Street photography ‘elsewhere’, 3. Color photography Italy 4. Color photography mobile phone and the series 5. ‘From Behind’. I don’t live from my photo’s but for my photo’s
Black & white images from different documentaries I made in the Baltic States, Poland, Oekraine en Amsterdam Oud-West
