I’m in my last year at the Academy in Tilburg. Things have been really busy. Besides finishing (trying that is) all my theoretical subjects I’m also working hard on making work to fill up my portfolio. Still not satisfied with a lot of it, but I’m never that easily satisfied.

The above work I made a couple of weeks ago. I had a lot on my mind and got a bit too frustrated, so I took a camera from my Internship went home and just started shooting away at the beach all day. As you can see the camera had some serious light leaks but I don’t care. You can consider it a selfpotrait of that day.

Nothing too spectacular but it’s a reminder I’m still alive ;)
Maybe I’ll post more regular from now on, because I’ve got a lot going on.

I will explain and add more pictures about this project later. I made this work for my class “Project” where we developed our own projects, the theme was inspiration.

Yesterday was the opening from the “a piece of water” exhibition in Kunstlerhaus. I did manage to get my piece ready in time. The opening was a big succes with a lot of people and a good atmosphere, maybe because of the free drinks and real Austrian sausages.
My Erasmus-friends showed up and tried their best to embarras me by giving my work a big applaus. But by doing that they managed to get even more people interested in my work. So thanks.

Last week I’ve finished my work for the “A piece of water” exhibition. Since I’ve only finished it last Thursday around 17:00H, and Friday the 1st of May being a holiday over here, they told me at the printshop to come back at 09:00H this morning. Now they will look if they have any time over to print it before tomorrow in the evening. All the work has to be ready this Wednesday to bring it to the museum.

detail

Made with a Hasselblad 6×6 mediumformat camera with 80mm Carl Zeiss Planar lens, to be printed as a C-print 90×90 cm.

I haven’t even finished my work for the “water”-exposition and I already have to put a lot of my time in forming my next project. Fortunetely that project hasn’t got a strict deadline and is more about how you form the project. Here are some testshots made yesterday, one polaroid, one normal and one pinhole.

The project I am currently working on is an commissioned project for the photography class at the Angewandte.  The given theme is “water”. The other students in my class have been working on this project since before last summer. A book will be printed which will contain most of the work from the other students.

To promote the book an exposition will take place at Kunstlerhaus. Since there was an deadline for the book I will probably only participate with the exposition. Hopefully I will get all my work done in time, since I’ve already had a lot of difficulties executing my ideas.

Last Tuesday we got this flyer

A snapshot I took in the Tropenhaus from Haus des Meeres, which I visited with Iris and Tom on Monday. These monkeys where totally fascinated by every visitor in there.
 

updated with 4 more photos
new project, first with new camera

this fall i went to portugal
and finally at the airport i bought my own canon eos 400d
so here are my first pictures with it

subject : impressionism

subject : the human body altered