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Workshop Cyanotype

Rens Horn shows with his photographs intriguing, poetic and intimate images. He collects the images during his many travels abroad and road trips with his motorcycle. Some prints are frayed; sometimes parts of the image are not developed. Those qualities draw attention to the process of making them.

Rens Horn stands out with the imaginative language that he develops with his work. He prefers to work in the darkroom in his studio with analogue techniques. To him the analogue technique is magical. By manipulating the negatives and chemical processes, he experiments with the limits of the analogue technology. He works with various kinds of photographic paper, very rare paper sometimes, and edits the photos in the darkroom to achieve remarkable results. Every photo is a work on its own. This making process also shows in the frames that he often makes with found wood. After developing the photograph, he adds texts, newspaper clippings or stamps. These texts are by well-known writers and scholars and emphasize the poetry of the image; they create  a space to think and add a variety of meanings to the image. But, he emphasizes, in the end looking is the most important thing.

Rens is represented by Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam.

AS I SEE IT

As I See It is a random selection of work. Some images come from a series and some works have been commissioned, but most are not.
All images are gelatine silver prints on different kinds of fiber-based paper, unless stated otherwise. These prints can be cut, glued, stamped, written on… anything goes.

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AS I SEE YOU

As I See You is a selection of PORTRAITS.
Some portraits have been commisioned, some are from travels, others are from friends, family or random encounters. As a guide and teacher at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam I had the chance to meet a few of my hero-photographers. I have very fond memories of our talks when I see some their portraits in this gallery again.
All images are gelatine silver prints on different kinds of fiber-based paper, unless stated otherwise. These prints can be cut, glued, stamped, written on… anything goes.

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I Travel

“Travelling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.”

(Nicolas Bouvier, The way of the world.)


“You guys are going somewhere, or just going?”

(Jack Kerouac, On the road.)


Series of pictures made on travels around the world on foot, by car, bus, boat, airplane, on motorcycles and with imagination.

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