Overlaat in de kali Konto bij suikerfabriek Goedo in Djombang op Java c. 1925 - 1930

Here's a photograph by Isken, "Overlaat in de kali Konto bij suikerfabriek Goedo in Djombang op Java". I’m wondering, what was it like to compose a shot like this back then? This landscape unfolds in a world without colour. It must have been a totally different way of seeing. Isken is playing with an endless horizon line, dividing the ground and sky. It feels so still and so poised. The figure on the bridge is just a distant presence – a solitary wanderer. The tonal range of the brown and greys have something very calming. I feel like what Isken is showing us here is a journey, not just across a bridge, but through a landscape and time itself. Thinking about the camera in the landscape is like thinking about a brush, a landscape, and an artist.