Cultuur

“I got a bug to do wet plate photography in ’76. In this day and age of digital, it’s so easy to just shoot thousands of pictures a day. Each individual picture becomes rather insignificant. Whereas, with the tintype, it’s very intentional and you’re not gonna make very many in a day. They become valued objects, not just an image. Each image is absolutely unique, like a painting.“

“I have created a hybrid situation where there are certain things I continue to do in the old, 19th-century way — somethings may be the way it was done before Christ, as far as I know — but then there are cutting-edge, high-tech things that I have here and do. I have a wind generator, solar panels, a laptop computer. You can blend these old, timeless things with the latest technology to do the things that need to be done in life. I think there’s going to be more people looking back for models from the past, and use it to blend in with new ideas and technology today.”

Coffer is de opvolger van de vorig jaar in het kader van dit project uitgebrachte film Byun — het verhaal van een excentrieke Koreaanse kunstenaar en in Brooklyn woonachtige allesverzamelaar die een praktische invulling geeft aan het concept van combinatorial creativity:

“Je kunt een hoop verhalen construeren door al deze objecten te combineren.” (DUTCH)

You can read more about the process on his website ( https://jasperleonard.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/small-belgium-antwerp/ ) with the help of Google translate (or not, if you happen to speak Dutch – De site is in het Nederlands). Enjoy!

51° 13′ 01.9″ NB, 4° 25′ 16.6″ OL>