Loving Your Pictures

2006 Centraal Museum, Netherlands

2006  Goethe Institute, Netherlands 

2007  Musée de l’Elysée, Switzerland 

2007  Rencontres d’Arles, France 

2008  Aperture Gallery New York, USA 

Loving Your Pictures is an exhibition of various series of vernacular / found photography collected by Erik Kessels. The exhibition is the initiative of the Centraal Museum based on books by Erik Kessels. However, when the museum approached us, they simply wanted to print, frame and display the images. We felt it was important to step away from the format of the book and find the right installation for each series based on the subject. For example, the collection of blogs was displayed on light boxes to assimilate how you view blogs. The German models were presented in the same proportions as the subjects and arranged in a uniform fashion, and the deer were projected in a dark room sporadically, not unlike how they were originally captured. The strength of the individual series lies in that, together or apart, they still remain strong.