Domestic Landscapes
For the first time ever, Bert Teunissen’s entire Domestic Landscapes archive of 568 images, in a 50 minute looped slide show.
This photographic projection will be show at Shop Wall presents, located within Noble and Beggarman books - at 28 South William Street, Dublin 2.
Domestic Landscapes is an ongoing archive that includes hundreds of images, the product of more than ten years’ work by Dutch photographer Bert Teunissen. The project aims to capture the atmosphere and light of homes across Europe while recording the rural traditions that are slowly disappearing due to the impact of modern farming practices.
Each of Teunissen’s colour photographs is composed around natural sources of light, just as the buildings themselves were once constructed around the idea of light, having been built before the Second World War, when the supply of domestic electricity was not widespread. This light lends Teunissen’s photographs a painterly quality and has led some to compare them to the great Dutch Masters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt.
Many of the people photographed by Teunissen have lived traditionally off the land. It soon became clear to Teunissen that it was not only their homes that were in danger from the onslaught of modernisation but also their entire way of life and sense of community. Commenting on his work, he states: ‘The inhabitants of the houses I seek and photograph, still know how something should taste, how it has to be made; they understand the importance of time and ripening, they know the meaning and value of repetition – daily – yearly… Their houses and ways of life are fading out of our societies, forever, together with their knowledge. It is my aim to capture this, wherever I can find it, before it disappears completely.’
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