January 23.

Looking into a shopping window today I noticed William Klein is back! Amsterdam, Kalverstraat, 3.03 pm.

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Up: Waiting for bus 44. This was bus 335 I was looking through. Strange coincidence of the profile of a face of a woman in the bus, my face and hands in the reflection of the bus window, and a face at a commercial poster in the background behind the bus.(Amsterdam, 29/8/13, 3.05 pm)

Middle: I just can’t resist it. When I see this game of light and shadow and those small events of people passing spots of sunlight, my camera is in my hand and before my eye. And yes I push the button and at night behind the PC I do the rest.(Amsterdam, 29/8/13, 2.25 pm)

Under: More and more I am fascinated by the expressiveness of signs and letters in a photograph. (Amsterdam. 13/8/13 4.01 pm)

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It is a strange phenomena in shopping areas. Shopping windows often show signs and letters instead of beautiful articles. And sometimes visitors of restaurants are eating in the shopping window.

Up: Amsterdam 13/6/25 2.10 pm

Middle: Amsterdam 13/6/25 2.41 pm

Under: Amsterdam 14/6/27 2.32 pm

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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

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That’s 1 of the things I really like about Belgian stations: the slightly surrealistic atmosphere you can find everywhere, if you just look around.

Antwerp Central 12/8/29 11.48 am

Brussels South 12/8/29 5.43 am

Brussels South 12/8/29 6.44 am

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The station of Antwerp (Belgium) is one of my favorite places to wait for a train. It is like a cathedral for the holy service of the Railways. Everywhere you see signs of good faith. Somewhere on the underneath image you can read: “Het station leeft”. Which means: “The station is alive”. 

This feeling being in a railway religious service is intensified by the echoes of the announcements of the endless delays.

Up: Antwerp (BE), 12/4/12, 7.56 pm

Under: Antwerp (BE), 12/4/16, 7.51 pm