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Photography --- photography [process] --- fotoboeken --- fotografie --- Dhondt, Lara

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Josefien mounted two trap cameras (commonly used to capture wildlife) throughout the house. The idea? To document herself during pregnancy and beyond.

Sufficed to say one’s mind does not ponder how to get the perfect shot when you’re actually the one in labor. You don’t want to be thinking about photography and proper framing during contractions or when you’re going in and out of intoxicating pain. So Josefien, well prepared, installed her trap cameras to capture the whole ordeal and catch herself off guard in the moment, transforming.

Her photographs paint a raw and uncensored picture, portraying the photographer over a period of nine months and presenting (human) nature at its peak. As the cameras showed Josefien no mercy and every movement was registered, 86.000 photos were made. In addition to documenting ‘the act’ itself, these cameras became an all seeing eye: the photos tell a tale of euphoria, but they also lay bare the lows: tensions, sadness, struggle and sleep deprivation.

This honesty is what makes Josefiens series so striking. Not only will young parents recognize the thrills and chills of the nine month period and its eventual apotheosis, even the random observer will experience a visceral reaction.

This book packs a punch and smacks you in the face with the energy that keeps all new mothers going: love.

"Can you prepare yourself for motherhood? The final nights before your birth I often thought about the calm before the storm. I allowed myself to be completely immersed in peace, while you were rooting in my belly. I knew that my life would change completely, but you only truly understand once you’ve actually become a mother. It’s like stepping through a gate and there’s no turning back (thankfully). You know what you’re leaving behind, but what’s to come is still a mystery." - Josefien Tondeleir in NEST

For every book sold, Josefien will make a donation to Birthmatters.

documentary photography --- pregnancy --- fotoboeken --- Tondeleir, Josefien

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Between March 2020 and November 2021 Bram Van Meervelde (@ouaizda) and Jan Lemaire (@marinatedalligator) went beachcombing on the banks of the river Schelde. The treasures and trouvailles were compounded in the book Jutten designed by Jean-Michel Meyers. The book has an introduction by @jillmathieu and @anneliesdsmt of goodcopy.ink and a work by @rinusvandevelde.

Why is it two men in boots keep trudging the mud in search of shards of the past? But a year has passed and on it goes, the larking, the scouring, the scavenging. One tea towel after another filled with coins, marbles, pipes.

Finds have a strange hold over us. There’s a magic to them that shines on a lot longer than the soon fading glimmer of things we intentionally choose. That purposefulness is probably what kills our enthusiasm after a week or so. Because when we make a choice, there’s too much of ourselves in the object already. We don’t deem a consciously picked item deserving of a tea towel display.

The more trash we’ve dug through to get to our treasure, the more it becomes. Hence the mud-crusted trouvailles. We’ve had to make our hands dirty and—like any good romance—half the pleasure lies in the hunt. So we go hunting for crap that’s out of place. Crap that becomes a find, simply because it was lost. A diamond is nothing very special in a jewellery store, but it’s everything when found among discarded fish.

Yet maybe the real reason for this endless trawlings for trinkets is another story altogether. Not that of a seventeenth-century mariner tossing a coin into the Scheldt to buy a safe passage, but the belief that we’re not the ones that find the perfectly rounded rock, it’s the pebble that finds us. For all its muteness, it speaks to us.

Extract Annelies Desmet & Jill Mathieu

Photography --- found objects --- fotoboeken --- Meervelde, Van, Bram --- Lemaire, Jan --- Scheldt

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Belgique --- België --- Fotoboeken --- Livres de photos --- Luchtfotografie --- Photographie aérienne --- luchtfoto's --- aerial photographs --- Belgium

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body art --- Stage design. Scenography --- bloemschikken --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Photography --- Art floral --- Bloemsierkunst --- Fotoboeken --- Livres de photos