WIR

Being alone as a human in this world. What does that mean? Today societies are greatly optimized in every part, public or private, time is always at the center. We feel connected with others and are happy to say, we are rarely alone. Where ever you go there are others. But are we together? And how are we when we are alone? Do we like it? Can we even be alone? Or do we get sad and bored? What would we look like? Alone in public, we often reflect. As we cannot let go of our face, our feelings can become visible, through facial expressions. I find it interesting that every human can read them and associate them with a meaning. Almost like a universal language, one thing that we all have in common. On my daily routes I encounter masses of people, all connected to millions more by the touch of their fingers. As a crowd they are one, but every individual is pursuing a different goal. They are so many, so similar but yet so different. So busy, that sometimes they are not able to acknowledge the life around them. I am looking for the moment when a stranger leaves his or her self awareness and the wish of how they want to be perceived behind. Falling deeply into thoughts of what is moving them in their reality. What triggers this moment? When they lay down the facade and become themselves, a vulnerable and intimate situation. There lays my fascination, to capture that very same moment of letting go, that I see in myself, in somebody else. Because I am alone with my camera.