Regarding Iron lines. (8)

 Photo made at the station of Herenthals (Belgium)

Exhibition “Regarding Iron Lines”. About railways, stations, train travels, railway stations. . Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35-BG, Amsterdam. 19/1-24/2 2024. Opening 19/1/2024!

Save the Date!

https://gallerywm.com/WP/regarding-iron-lines-jaap-bijsterbosch-19-01-24-02-2024/
 

 

Invitation!!

Meet & Greet the photographer! Friday, April 8 from 4 to 6 pm! Welcome!

Exhibition!!

Photos!!

 “Shop window in the Shop window”

When: March 17, 2022 to April 25, 2022.

Where: Raamgalerie Filmstudio Franjo, 2-e van der Helststraat 41, 1073 AH Amsterdam

Open: Daily, 9am to 11pm.

Fashion stores, jewelers, bakers, McDonalds, travel agencies, garages, museums, galleries, souvenir shops, department stores, hotels and much more. Photographer Jaap Bijsterbosch walks by and always looks at the shop window through the viewfinder of his camera. He sometimes registers the content or message of the shop window, but also often the interplay between the shop window and the environment in which the shop window is located. Through the single lens of the camera, the street scene reflected in the shop window can be combined with the contents of the shop window to create alienating images, often with a poetic or surreal slant. Bijsterbosch also has no objection whatsoever to giving his own reflection in the window pane an important role as a (determining) element.

 

Photo for a Column!

 This photo is to be seen in Buitenkunst Beeldcolumn! https://buitenkunst.nl/columns/beeldcolumns/

Use Google translate for a translation, if needed.

From my shoebox #1

Photo shot December 1985. Sometimes it was snowing so hard, that I had to change films in a telephone booth (!). There was snow in my camera (Nikon F2). After drying the device on the train heating it was working perfectly again.

A.D. 2018 #24.

For all of you: a very merry Christmas! Photograph: Antwerp (Bel), 18/12/18, 11.41 am. A.D. 2018 is a selection from photographs I made during 2018.

A.D. 2018 #15.

Some reflections I just can’t resist. Photograph: Antwerp. (Bel), 5/23, 1.18 pm. A.D. 2018 is a selection from photographs I made during 2018.

New Exhibition!

Wisps of City.

There’s a new show coming up! From April 1^st I will display some 90 photographs. About how one can feel walking in a (big) city. In a city I often feel a slight alienation. Huge numbers of people, passing each other almost anonymously, commercial posters and lights, tall buildings, suddenly a face in the crowd.

My show is a collection of seemingly fleeting observations made in a.o. Aachen, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Bruges, Cork, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfort, Galway, Gent, Lausanne, Louvain, Lisbon, New York, Stettin, Vienna, Zürich, Zwolle.

Where: Window gallery, Franjo Studio, 2^nd van der Helsstraat 41, Amsterdam.

The opening will be at April 1^st , 5.00-7.00 pm. 

You’re very welcome to drink a glass with me then!   Photos: Up: Louvain (Bel) 12/9/27 4.08 pm, middle: Vienna (Aut) 14/8/10 1.52 pm, under Cork 15/9/11 3.41 pm.

May 13 (march 7)

Currently I'm preparing a small book called “Vierkant Antwerpen” (=Square Antwerp). This is one of the photos I will be using. More news in about a fortnight. Photo: Antwerp, 15/03/07 5.13 pm.

April 24 (march 7).

Some time ago I visited my friend Martin Harlaar (http://fotobron.blogspot.nl/) in Antwerp. During the afternoon we made a long stroll. In the citycenter we met these ladies. Antwerp, 15/03/07, 5.07 pm.

January 16

Went to Antwerp for a day. Always a strange experience. It feels abroad for me, but I can use my own language. Beautiful light. As Usual, I felt very much at home in this city. Antwerp, Belgium 0.54 pm

I am a winner!

Travelling around in Germany on a photagraphic trip I recieved 
a message I was a winner in the Photographic Mastercup for 
this year. For Fashion!! And I was a nominee in Fine Art.
Of course I felt very proud. Go to:
www.photomasterscup.com/gallery/index.php?gaid=15

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (121) Because of a Fragmentic Nature (121)

I love magic realism. That’s why I love to go to Belgium.

Up: Antwerp. 12/09/27 6.33 pm

Under: Leuven. 12/09/27 4.08 pm

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (119) Because of a Fragmentic Nature (119)

Some time ago I visited the area in Brussels, where the buildings of the European Parliament are situated. Strange place to be. It’s consisting of huge buildings like enormous steel and glass beehives. 

Human being are absent or reduced to small spots in the open space.

It’s a bit like Europe is nowadays. The organization is more important than the people it’s representing.

Not to mention that for 12 times a year the whole pandemonium moves over to the French city of Strassbourg. Talking about wasting public money…  

Up: Brussels 12/9/27 12.56 am

Under: Brussels 12/9/14 5.22 am

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (118) Because of a Fragmentic Nature (118)

Reflections, for instance in shopping windows or train windows, when the train is riding through a tunnel, can be a powerful tool to create strange images.  One can combine two worlds that in reality are different ones into just one image. This results into an image which is in fact impossible. We don’t see it, because we look at the world with two eyes. This allows us to perceive depth. The camera can’t do it, it has only one lens.

This is the reason I often look at shopping windows with one eye closed.

Up: Turnhout (Be) 12/9/4 0.42 pm

Under: Brussels (Be) 12/9/4 4.20 am

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (117) Because of a Fragmentic Nature (117)

One the things I’m attracted to lately: Small human figures in a spatial environment. I’m using also reflections and overexposed areas in the photograph to emphasize a feeling of strangeness.

I am using just small compact cameras for doing this, fully aware of the fact that I cannot print the pictures at a size of 3 x 4 meters. But what the heck? If the idea bind the photo is ok, size doesn’t really matter. It’s the idea that counts, not the size stupid!

Up: ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL) 12/9/16 12.25 am

Under: Brussels (Bel) 12/9/14 4.50 pm