To me, photography is a mirage. For although it is an emanation of reality, photography
is at the same time from the same substance as my fantasy.
While I’m photographing everyday reality that surrounds my studio, I’m also photographing
or even projecting my longings. Images capture moments when reality and my subconscious
world collide.
Thus, the camera becomes a factory of dreams, and these photographs narrate an
intimate diary of my “departures” without leaving my backyard. They demonstrate
photography’s power to “transport” us. In other words: “I don’t travel to photograph.
I photograph to travel.”
Photographs show us landscapes devoid of life in an often somber atmosphere. But
nothing is at it seems. By adding names of real places to the photographs, the illusion
that what we see are in fact distant places, becomes credible.
In this way, Memories of Tomorrow asks the question if we are visually literate in an
era when images make up the bulk of our communication. As a reminder of how easily
we can be manipulated through them.
I will not waste my breath about the fact that we are destroying the planet, and that tomorrow
many places can easily become just a memory. Hence the series title.
The Memories of Tomorrow series is an introductory part of a deeper inward journey that
is expressed in the body of work entitled Scotoma.
DK, 2019