Description
.Context is a poetic reflection on time spent in specific landscapes such as deserts and volcanic landscapes, captured during long time travels. In these environments, Caroline experienced the overwhelming force of earth and nature, the vastness that robbed her of any sense of footing, the silence that was at once deafening and oppressive and above all the existential awareness that such an overwhelming landscape brings.
This confrontation with boundless expanse evoked not only fear and awe but also an existential consciousness, which profoundly shaped her photography. She finds herself continually drawn back to the desert and the volcanoes, deepening her relationship with those landscapes and yielding ever-new insights.
The design of the book, is a leporello with a length of 5 mtr, printed on both sides.
Caroline Bijl (b. 1960) is a photographer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She works exclusively with analogue camera’s and use various techniques in her dark room, such as photopolymer technique or liquid light. Film rolls are often affected by fluctuating temperatures and high humidity. When printing, she uses only expired, aged photographic paper, which inevitably introduces imperfections. She embraces these ‘errors’ and incorporate them into her visual language In the darkroom, her images detach from personal memories and experiences to gain their own autonomy, as echoes of the landscape’s rawness.
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website carolinebijl.com