W12 Positions and Practice

I started this master study because I wanted to have a better idea for myself of how I was in photography and how I could better express this. What I had not foreseen is that I would have so much contact with fellow students because we work online and that this would have a stimulating effect.

I have learned to see the connection and growth in my older and newer work and I have found that I am actually a kind of sculptor who uses photography as a medium. Showing what is normally invisible to the human eye is a recurring theme.

To me, technology belongs to photography, the one does not exist without the other. Thinking about how it works and then see if it can be done differently, experimenting with the possibilities to come to different usages. Exploring different perspectives is what keeps me sharp. I like to evoke wonder to transcend reality and predictability.

We started looking at the global picture from the window. We saw how photography changed over the years into a medium that affects our lives on a daily basis, and of which we can no longer imagine what it would look like without everyone else being a photographer. This raises the question: What does it mean to be a photographer? And of course the question what are norms and values ​​that you use as a photographer.

We have done two collaborative projects during this period. That was a quick and quite intensive way to get to know each other. Cooperation is especially successful if you both enter the project with the same energy, and time investment as I have noticed. By trusting in the other, this resulted in a pleasant cooperation.

The oral presentation and putting what you could and how to tell in which order and keeping up the storyline took a lot of time and effort. This is something I also see coming back in the research proposal. It is not so much what you want to tell, but how I repel it so that it becomes a clear and logical story for others. I hope to develop much further this year.

What I have never realized is how much I have been influenced by other photographers. Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski with whose work I was already known as a child because his sister was a neighbour to me and Jan Dibbets who had attended the same high school and was a kind of hero there.

When looking critically at photography, I have to make a lot more comparison to my own practice. The similarities but also what makes me unique.When looking critically at photography, I have to make a lot more comparison to my own practice. The similarities but also what makes me unique. There are many steps to be taken here and I also notice that the language is bothering me here and there.

So far this study has given me more energy if it costs me and I find that very special. What I learn, I also bring back my own class; a new fresh look. I am therefore looking forward to the next block.