Drie foto's van enkele jonge mannen en een vrouw en Emilie Onnen met Abraham Dudok van Heel, zes maanden oud 1918

Here's what an anonymous artist did with a camera, film, and photo album sometime in the past: Drie foto's van enkele jonge mannen en een vrouw en Emilie Onnen met Abraham Dudok van Heel, zes maanden oud. It's interesting to see how even snapshots have a composition to them, a way of making marks, even with light. The way the pictures are arranged on the page creates its own visual language. Look at the image of the mother and baby. The tonal range is soft, like a gentle touch. It’s intimate, a captured moment that feels both posed and deeply personal. The way the light falls on the baby's face, it's so tender, a light caress. The album is a kind of conversation across time. Each placement says something about relationships, connections, about remembering and forgetting. It reminds me of Gerhard Richter's Atlas project, the way he used photographs as source material to create a visual encyclopedia of his life, an archive of lived experience. Art isn’t just about the final image, it's about the whole messy, beautiful process of seeing and feeling.