Woman #10 1954-2023
From the series “Woman Rock Falls - picturing imagined incidents”
Mixed technique. Pastel pencil, tea and collage applied to a photo. This image is then printed out very small on thin copy paper, creating a mysterious structure and grain. This photo was then reproduced with a macro lens on a full frame camera.
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"Since I graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 1997, I have developed my own unique photography style. I take my work during long walks through the city and its suburbs. I have worked in various places, including Las Vegas, Seville, Bangkok , London, New York, Amsterdam and Brussels.
Chaos is the terrain in which I take my best photos. Within the complexity of the city I am looking for 'black holes' or 'non-places', where colour, light, materials, lines and strange objects play together within the frame of my camera. I don't consider my photos as pure registration; instead I feel a strong connection with painting and music.
My work is about mood, color, atmosphere and therefore the concept of 'things that are left behind', or more precisely: 'things and places that go unnoticed in our hectic, daily lives'. This is a way of making images that I have mastered and developed over the years, and I still find myself looking for the light in an empty street and the loneliness of a broken car.
Ultimately, I try to stay as close as possible to my original way of thinking, which perhaps best challenges itself as: seeing one thing in everything and seeing everything in one thing, or: seeing the importance of the seemingly unimportant.”
Giclée print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper.
Size 30x20 cm without white border.
Maarten van Schaik
The photo prints are printed in one batch every two weeks, at the beginning and middle of the month. You will receive an email when your order has been shipped or can be picked up.
Woman #10 1954-2023
From the series “Woman Rock Falls - picturing imagined incidents”
Mixed technique. Pastel pencil, tea and collage applied to a photo. This image is then printed out very small on thin copy paper, creating a mysterious structure and grain. This photo was then reproduced with a macro lens on a full frame camera.
Giclée print on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper.
Size 30x20 cm without white border.