F I N I S T E R R E

F I N I S T E R R E is a multi-year photo project about the landscape of the European Atlantic coast and forms the sequel of Time and tide, a panorama series in black and white focussing on the Dutch coast. Since 2021, I have been exploring the coastlines of Jutland-Denmark, the German-Danish Wadden Sea region, Normandy and Brittany and Northern Spain including the Basque coast. These coasts have been visited repeatedly and in different seasons and even the Dutch coast was revisited. With this project I moved away from Time and tide's panoramic photographs in black and white to different ratios and colour and was completed in mid-2024. It reflects a personal voyage of discovery of the coastal areas, roaming along the border between sea and land. Water, in all its manifestations and appearances and in particular the sea keeps fascinating me. I enjoy the great sense of space and feel the enormous expanse of the sea and its vast horizon. It allows me to create visual poetry. In the background of the project, occasionally literally, is the omnipresence of the sea, immeasurable in size, mighty in power, unpredictable. The 'vastness of the ocean opens more esoterical operations in the mind, offering a meditative feeling to the viewer'*** . During this project, I gradually started working more and more with a drone to bring out the tension and interaction between the mainland and the sea, the coast protects the hinterland against the sea and its rising sea level. The drone creates the freedom to view the coast and the sea from the point of view of that sea and, at the same time, to overview the two at a glance. Photographing from a moderate height of tens of meters above sea level, I maintain a sense of contact with the subject, but the height also provides a certain abstraction and distance. Careful choice of subject, weather conditions and time of day also play an important role and leave plenty of room for imagination *** quotation from a LensCulture review