Else Wachenheimer-Moos loopt met haar echtgenoot Eugen Wachenheimer over de pier van Scheveningen, 1924, Scheveningen 1924

This photograph, taken by a member of the Wachenheimer family in 1924, captures Else Wachenheimer-Moos and her husband Eugen strolling along the pier in Scheveningen. The grayscale image has this soft tonality, a sense of time passing and people just existing, very different to photography today, which is about perfection. There’s something very poignant to me in this record of the everyday, the sense of a captured moment and a gesture, his arm against hers, that you feel holds so much more. The image feels slightly faded, but it allows us to be able to fill it in with our own experiences, and it becomes a shared record. Looking at the pier, this linear construction feels reminiscent of the paintings of Mondrian, another artist from the Netherlands. There's also something so moving in the very act of recording these moments, like Frida Kahlo’s photographic self-portraits, that allow us to see art as an ongoing conversation, where the fixed or definitive meanings are secondary to the human moments.