| In 1993, I started to wonder what to do with the shoeboxes
full of black/white negatives, made in 1955 - 1965. Photographing was
my great passion in those years and publications in journals and magazines
provided the necessary money for life support. But often the better photo's
had not been chosen or were victim of a miserable layout and a poor printing
technique. A photographer is rarely satisfied about publications of his
work. But the storing of negatives in unsolid shoeboxes, waiting for their
way to the dust container, would make the archiving of so many years useless.The
best approach of the problem is a new dynamic start by simply using the
laws of optical grammar. As a documentary photographer you always take
visual measures of a situation, which is of course mostly subjective.
And where not subjective, always referring to the folding rule with overprint
'not for trade purposes'. By making new photographs matching to those
I made forty years ago, a new photo story is born. Without the influence
of editors, art directors and principals. It is a story of an independent
author. |
