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The coming of age of a photography project - Part III

The coming of age of a photography project - Part III

Showing you the evolution in my long-term project

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Marcel Borgstijn
Apr 30, 2024
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In the last 2 newsletters I told you about my ongoing project 'Riverlands' and my struggle to find the right direction.

In the first newsletter I showed some first pictures and tried to show how we Dutch deal with land conquered by water.

In the second part, I focused on some lighter images, although still dark because of the harsh contrast.

Now I would like to show you another approach, in which I had the help of one of our fellow Substackers, but more about that later....

Ever since I bought the book Landschapswaarnemingen (Landscape Observations) by Ger Dekkers about ten years ago, I have been interested in landscapes in which the sequence shows an abstract representation of that landscape. With this in mind, I have tried to present a rather mundane scene in an alternative way.

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