Toren van de Geerteskerk te Kloetinge 1890 - 1920

This is a photograph of the Toren van de Geerteskerk te Kloetinge, made anonymously. Look at this sepia tone, almost like a memory fading into the paper. I wonder, did the photographer develop the image immediately or did it take a while, the exposure and development processes shifting and emerging slowly through trial, error, and intuition? I sympathize with this artist. What was it like to lug all that equipment around, and think about composition? They must have been thinking about light, of course, how it catches on the brickwork of the tower. It’s thin and even across the whole surface of the tower and surrounding buildings, creating depth, space, and perspective through light and shadow. There’s a particular glow in the center of the tower that catches my eye. Artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. Photography is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.