The series of ‘GHOSTS’ came about as a direct response to the ever-increasing conflicts and resulting violence all over our modern world. To give a voice to the nameless and show the experience of the shattered and fragmented self, caused by conflicts, in particular as a consequence of the repeated patterns of violence against women.

The drawings are created on black paper on which pastel powder is applied only to be removed and erased to create the shapes and forms of female faces in their details. The already double-exposed portraits are layered on top of each other, fragmented into glitched horizontal bars, emerging from and fading away into the darkness of the black background.

GHOSTS

The photographs were captured between 2011 and 2012 on several personal flights, leading to this series of six altered images taken out of aeroplane windows by the only means of a mobile phone. Their titles refer to the airports and the abstract transit space in-between and are, instead of being specific, blurred into a more general sensual feeling of being above the clouds drifting into nowhere and nothingness, making it easier for the observer to identify with the subjects regarding their sensual memory.

LOST in Flight

The series of CLOUDscapes tries to capture the sculptures forming every day above our heads. Being fascinated by the shape of clouds, their immense size compared to the small places they are travelling over and the fragility of their being, I developed these photographs.

CLOUDscapes

A fascination with movies led me to explore the image-constituting behaviour of film. Film in itself is linear, 24 frames per second, exposed in a continuous time flow, suggesting a realistic elapsing act. The series tries to deconstruct the sequence, turning it into a single image filled with movement, capturing time and breaking open the linearity of film.

CINEscapes

The CITYscapes series is divided into four cities, namely Paris, New York City, London, and Berlin. The main focus lies in architectural perception and remembrance, and the function which photographs play in the constitution of memory.

Tristan D. Grey