Grootstad & Co/Major City & Co #3

 

Een Grootstad (Duits Großstadt) is een stad met meer dan 100.000 inwoners. (A major city (German: Großstadt) is a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants)

 Düsseldorf (Germany) 2024- 07 -06

Regarding Iron Lines/Omtrent IJzeren lijnen (13).

“Regarding Iron Lines”. About railroad tracks, travelling by train, train compartments. Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35-BG. 2024 1/19 until 2024 2/24. Opening next Friday 1/19. Welcome!

Exhibition in the making!

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

Regarding Iron Lines/Omtrent IJzeren lijnen (12).

 

Photo: Augsburg 7/9/2021

Exhibition “Regarding Iron Lines”. About railroad tracks, travelling by train, train compartments. Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35-BG. 2024 1/19 until 2024 2/24. Save the Date!

Opening: 2024/01/19  5.00-7.00 pm

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

Regarding Iron Lines/Omtrent IJzeren Lijnen (4).

Stay put and travel. 2018/4/25. Linz-St. Poelten (Austria).  Exhibition “Regarding Iron Lines”. About railroad tracks, travelling by train, train compartments. Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35-BG.  2024 1/19 until 2024 2/24. Save the Date! 

Regarding Iron Lines/Omtrent IJzeren Lijnen (3)

Train in the night. Abcoude (NL) 1994/4/29. Exhibition “Regarding Iron Lines”. About railroad tracks, travelling by train, train compartments. Gallery WM, Elandsgracht 35-BG.  2024 1/19 until 2024 2/24. Save the Date!  

Regarding Iron Lines/ Omtrent IJzeren Lijnen

 This is one of the many photos I took and will take in a train compartment. From 19/01 2024 to 17/02 2024 I will show photos out of the magic world of train travel, railway lines, passengers and stations in the exhibition "Regarding Iron Lines" in Gallery WM in Amsterdam. A photographic show of analogue black and white vintage prints from the 90s of the previous century as well as digital color prints from 2023.

City Travellers

Cell phone and Mouth Mask: Madrid Metro 2022

Madrid, May 2022

Travel Photo ##9

Travelling itself and observing people is much more interesting than arriving on the spot. Photo: Luxembourg-Liège, 2010/9/16.

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 #18

2019/09/13 Railjet  Express Vienna-Zürich 11.42 pm.

Travel Photo #10

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

Travel Photo #9

Berlin Ostkreuz 19/8/29 2.37am.

A.D. 2018 #18.

Stay put and travel. Meanwhile the spring landscape is flashing past. Sitting in a train is a form of meditation. Photograph: Morges-Yverdon les Bains (CH), 5/4, 7.50 pm. A.D. 2018 is a selection from photographs I made during 2018.

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.

March 6.

I find myself in the last carriage of the train to Antwerp, where I am going to visit a friend. I am rediscovering the square format. Moerdijkbrug, 11.27 am

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.