Awoiska van der Molen (Netherlands, 1972) photographs places on the edge of anonimous cities.
"The cities visited by Awoiska van der Molen are not usually part of the regular city trip assortment. Not that it really matters: we would be spared the obligatory sights anyway, and if, like so many tourists, couleur locale is what you’re looking for, you may be better off looking elsewhere. With her images, she tends to lead us to margins of a city: to the side streets, the suburbs, the slums. The habitat of prefabricated walls and wooden fences, trees lost in a dreary fake garden in the front yard. Unorthodox gate assemblies or little sheds, surrounded by barbed wire. And it is always dark."
Awoiska does her own prints in the traditional darkroom. And they are very good. The pictures on a computer screen do not do justice to the real thing. (I happen to be lucky enough to own a few..). If you do have the change to see them in real life, do so. The prints have a certain tensity and almost pull you into the picture itself.
One thing I hope is that Awoiska will also publish a book with her work... Maybe someday.
Awoiska does her own prints in the traditional darkroom. And they are very good. The pictures on a computer screen do not do justice to the real thing. (I happen to be lucky enough to own a few..). If you do have the change to see them in real life, do so. The prints have a certain tensity and almost pull you into the picture itself.
One thing I hope is that Awoiska will also publish a book with her work... Maybe someday.
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