RENDEZ-VOUS

"Since 1995, I have had a special kind of RENDEZ-VOUS once a month. First it was with myself, my belly during pregnancy, which was getting rounder and fuller. Then with my first son Merlin, and soon the second, Basil, followed. The framework of our monthly meeting is simple: a square, twelve shots and the desire to play on both sides of the lens. The monthly picture is our joint work in progress, the flipbook of these years experienced together and documents the growth and coming of age of Merlin and Basil. Since Merlin turned 18 our RENDEZ-VOUS happen at longer intervals but the longtime project nonetheless continues." Caroline Minjolle set herself strict deadlines for this series of pictures: monthly and always as a black and white photo in the square format of her Hasselbald camera. This routine recurrence created the creative space, similar to the rituals of our everyday life, which then fill with life differently and anew every day. It is book about privacy, but always meant for a public. A book about family, life and changes. All the images from this work, taken over 25 years (1995-2020), have been collected for the first time in a book published by Arisverlag Zurich in March 2021.