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. |
