Swan

I’d sworn not to buy a digital camera ever again but failed to hold that promise, I did it again. I fell in love with the results from this little camera, in the sense that the files were directly usable as they are, and striking close to an analog image.

A long held personal wish that apparently needed to wait for two decades to come true. And so I went out, to test and try, this camera for a few days and after making some prints on genuine black and white glossy paper, I saw an opportunity to make a book from these prints.

I could make a “real” photo book so to speak, by working directly with the physical prints instead of a digital file and traditional ink printing methods.

Between my test shots I found a swan, some shots in the dark and frozen ground. I could use all these as a metaphor for my concerns about gun violence in general and rising in the Netherlands in particular. I remembered an old traditional Irish song which I used (with the freedom taken for changes) for the storyline.

Thus that’s how “Swan” came to be, as a solid hand-build book, and I could produce just one book per day, the assembling was pretty tedious, but totally worth the experience.

[Last copy] Hoe het in de Werelt gaet? | How is the world doing? [2020]

Waiting for the turn of tides [2020]

Swan [2020]

Draw me a Horse [2019]

Horizon [2019]

Dormant Land [2018]

Octave [2016]