CLOSE, BUT NO REALLY
«The close, but not really series is made in an area where a new suburb is being constructed. It’s currently only half done, but people are already living there. This creates a strange neighborhood, it’s history in the making. People will live here for years and live their lives, the series captures the start of that. I discovered the area when I drove through it one day and it reminded me of my childhood. When I was a kid, I used to go play on building sites as this.
The series focusses on modern (affordable mass) architecture as well as on urban planning and human behavior in such an environment.
I often seem to be looking for little jokes or slightly awkward situations in an image. I’m not really aware of, but there have been a couple of people that saw that in the pictures. My work is often about urban planning, architecture and their relation to people. I find myself heavily influenced by photographers as Alec Soth, Nadav Kander, Rob Hornstra and Stephen Shore. Sometimes a bit too much - every now and then I have this phase in which I don’t make my own pictures, but try to copy what I see in my influences’ work. But I hope that I can eventually translate those influences to my own, distinctive style.»
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