City Travellers

 

The Photographer as a Peeping Tom

New York Subway. May 2011.

Train Travel (Self-portrait/Selfie 764)

 Photo: Amersfoort-Apeldoorn (NL), 22/4/21, 10.36 am

Travel photo ##6

Train ride through Sugar beet country during harvest time. Section Groningen-Leeuwarden (NL) 0ctober 1990

Travel Photo ##1

Travelling, fortunately we still have the Photographs. This one was made in Ireland, between Dublin and Sligo. The year is 1988. The lady is my Love.

Travel Photo #19

IC 131 Warsaw-Prague 12.27am

Travel Photo #10

ICE train Leipzig-Berlin 2019/8/28 6.38am

A.D. 2018 #10.

Train compartments are sometimes cozy public living rooms. The photographer as a secret voyeur. Photograph: Emmerich-Oberhausen (Germany), 10/19, 11.51 am. A.D.2018 is a selection from photographs I made during 2018.

Hopper in Dublin AD 2016

Photo: Dublin Pearse Station, 15/08/26, 4.41pm

On the move again

I love to sit in a train watching the world go by. The combination of movement & light & the reflection of the train interior in the compartment window sometimes results in strange, alienating, almost surreal photographs.

Up: Sittard-Maastricht 13/04/10 11.22 am

Middle: Sittard-Roermond 13/06/04 7.46 pm

Under: Eindhoven 13/06/04 8.29 pm

Treincupé (Train compartment)

The other day there was an article in a Dutch newspaper about the increasing popularity of travelling by car amongst people under 40. One of the explanations was the fact that they could use the internet (Wifi!) and listen to music more intensely when travelling by train. As a regular train traveler I like that. As a photographer too, because it can cause nice pictures.

Up: Amsterdam 12/11/21 6.02 pm

Under: Amsterdam 12/11/09 6.56 pm

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 (114) (Because of a Fragmentic Nature (114)

 

Tomorrow I will spend some time at the main station of Antwerp. To me it is one of the most beautiful stations I know. A perfect mix between a modern underground part and an impressive romantic upper part.

All photographs were taken at June 26^th of this year.

Vanwege Fragmentarische Aard (106) (Because of a Fragmentic Nature (106)

Sitting in a train that is waiting at the station I often look at what is happening outside. The reflection of what is happening inside the compartment sometimes very effectively mingles with the events at the platform. A new kind of reality arises in the frame of the photographic exposure: A Slight Form of Surrealism.

Up: Brussels Central (Be) 12/05/11 5.54 pm

Under: Amsterdam Central 12/04/27 9.36 pm