Breitner’s Box Camera

① memo 20180518 ~ Breitner’s Box Camera ~ Paint-splattered box camera used by the Dutch painter and photographer George Breitner. Filmed at ‘Photography’ exhibition April 2010, The Hague Museum of Photography. Holland.
This Guy’s Edison-Camera is from around 1900 and in the special collection of Leiden University.

The Art Of War – Transport XX

① memo 20180216 ~ The Art Of War – Transport XX ~ Portraits of 17 people liberated from a cattle car of Transport XX to Auschwitz, 19 April 1943 in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium, by three young men – Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon. Video of a photomontage (still) submitted today for The Art of War exhibition in Kazerne Dossin (BE) by Michel van der Burg

Touching Ice

① memo 20180208 ~ Touching Ice ~ Makes me think (afterwards) of Vermeer’s painting technique (17th century) using a camera obscura, concentrating on changing structures of visual perception, the prehistory of photography, Holland

Photography Master

① memo 20171218 ~ Photography Master ~ Some practice ;) on that last day of the Master colleges “Histories and Theories of Photography” December 16, 2008 in the Pieter de la Court Building of the Leiden University , Leiden , Holland

Filming Geese Flying

① memo 20171013 ~ Filming Geese Flying ~ Filming brants (geese , dutch “rotgans”) in flight over the dutch island Terschelling earlier this year

Wet Wedding

① memo 20170923 ~ Wet Wedding ~ In the Mediterranean sea on the coast of the Pelion peninsula in Greece earlier this month

Bride

① memo 20170906 ~ Bride ~ Dutch couple Eveline & Gerben getting married 6 september 2014 – with photographer for a shoot on transit at Boskoop railway station , Holland