Portret van jonkheer Hendrik Jan Gevers 1895 - 1910

This photograph of jonkheer Hendrik Jan Gevers was shot by Rumbler, but we don't know when exactly. Imagine Rumbler, whoever they were, framing this young aristocrat in their lens. It’s not just a click of a button; it’s a dance, a delicate negotiation between photographer and subject. I wonder what jonkheer Hendrik Jan Gevers was thinking in that moment? Was he nervous, or bored? Did he understand that this small rectangle would outlive him, that we would be looking at it, trying to read something in his young face? He probably had no idea of all this attention. Photography is a process of capturing light, but it's also a process of capturing time, of freezing a moment in place. Each photograph is like a little time capsule, a little poem about the past.