Art photography | introduction to the website
Like many, I too started with an agfa clack 2, the property of my parents, a photo which I took at the age of 8 or 9, I think. The place Madurodam the smallest city of the Netherlands in The Hague. Subject is Schiphol Airport. Of course black and white size 9x9cm. Photos per roll I think, not sure anymore, 12 shots. I can remember being very curious about the end result after the shoot, but yes, it took a while back then; developing prints was still done by a so-called development centre, which took at least a week.
I am not the biggest fan of everything digital, but when it comes to photography, I am very happy with it. The photos I take are not edited, at most they are cropped. With my photos, it is me taking the photos and not a photo editing program. Even enlargements are not edited so that a photo is created in which small things (that I actually do not want on the photo) are shown. If I see this while photographing, I try to avoid it, which of course is not always possible. What I try to do then is to let it be part of the whole.
Afterwards it is a matter of weighing up whether it is disturbing yes or no. Yes means deleting it, otherwise it stays as it is. And believe me, deleting a photo taken far from home is not easy. It remains a one-off and afterwards there is a sense that it might have been easy to delete (and yes, it will always be the case, we know better with hindsight).
For me, photography is not "shooting pictures". No editing afterwards to get a better image. My photographs are the result of a photographic quest for pure and substantive representation of the world around me. Sometimes tranquil, sometimes intense..
Once again: I do not edit, I do not flash, I photograph on impulse and I compose images without music. In short, what I see on the camera display is what you get to see. Or "what I see is what you get" and see it all else as a fingerprint left behind by me.............
Albert van 't Slot Duiven Januari 2022
"Editing a photo
is nothing new. It is now
Only easier and
Anyone can do it.
It used to be more difficult
and quite expensive,
But it happened often, especially In
fashion and advertising.
But it is reprehensible
when an edited
photo is presented
as a real one."
