Twee foto's van familie Van den Berg tijdens een vakantie aan het meer van Genève 1930 - 1934

Frank Willem van den Berg made these two photographs of the Van den Berg family on vacation at Lake Geneva, and they show the quiet stillness of memory caught in grayscale. I imagine Van den Berg wanting to capture not just the place, but the feeling of being there. The cool air, the vastness of the water meeting the mountains, maybe even the little arguments that happen on family trips. There's a loneliness too – is that him in the lower photograph, pausing between snow-dusted pine trees, caught in a moment of reflection? I love how the two images almost mirror each other, the lake above and a path through the woods below. Photography is a process of trying to freeze time, trying to hold onto something that is always slipping away. Artists are always in conversation with each other, trying to figure out how to make sense of the world, each leaving their mark, however fleeting, in the ongoing story of seeing and feeling.