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The Point of View is an exploration of places and spaces.

What is it that one reacts to when first entering an unfamiliar place? What does a person continue to notice, upon the second or third glance? How does an image, and thus the sense of place projected from an image, change, when there is a variation in the framing or angle?

Similar to a reflection, when paired or tripled, images seem to be mirrored. They visually repeat the same scene with slight differences, or altogether changes. The photographs begin to represent fragments of visual details.

I like to think that through the solitary study of an image, with variations and repetitions, one can obtain a more complex understanding of the nature of a place, as well as the feelings of the photographer.

These photographs tell stories about different places I visited between 2006 and 2009, documenting how places slowly unfold before the eye. For me there are multiple frames, and multiple points of view. These views arise from different fragments, angles, framings and viewpoints. Somewhere between these multiple foregrounds and backgrounds repetition becomes a reflection, which unfolds into a story.

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