De woning van Willy Moos (Bellevue 62), vermoedelijk 1928, Hamburg 1928

This photograph, "De woning van Willy Moos (Bellevue 62)" was probably taken in Hamburg, in 1928. It's this kind of double image, pasted into an album, that feels really intimate and personal. In the first frame, the light bounces off the rounded portico, creating an intense shadow that almost flattens the brickwork and draws our eye to the dark doorway. Look at the softness of the focus, and how this makes the images seem dreamlike and slightly melancholic. There’s something really evocative about the way the lawn and shrubs blur into indistinct shapes and tones. In the second frame, the image shows the neat garden and trees which give a glimpse of bourgeois life. This is what makes the images so poignant, like a faded memory of what once was. It reminds me of Karl Blossfeldt's botanical photographs, and the way he manages to elicit emotion from the still life. It's these kinds of images which open our minds to the multiple ways of seeing and feeling our world.