Homage to Vermeer and Rembrandt
I was commissioned to photograph the dutch landscapes as a homage to their famous painters like Vermeer and Rembrandt.
As you could imagine, all of these photographs show only a very small part of the real landscape. It’s like the view through a picture frame.
If you stand in Delft at the same place, where Vermeer painted his famous masterpiece „View of Delft“ you will be disappointed. The heavy traffic on the street in front of you, the faceless modern architecture around you. You have to be a real fan of Vermeers painting or a photographer to enjoy the view. But exactly that was the point that has interested me.
I decided to work with my large format camera, the wonderful Linhof Technika and long exposure times on film to get the important colour shifts.
