Home Ground

Series note

Home Ground is the studio practice between expeditions. Thirteen works from Rotterdam, Kinderdijk, North Brabant, and Etten-Leur map the landscape and built environment that form the photographer's permanent reference point.

Kinderdijk appears three times — in winter mist, winter frost, and monochrome fog — because the windmills reward return. Each visit reveals a different quality of northern Dutch light: flat and diffuse in autumn, brittle and white in winter, occasionally amber at the horizon in a way that arrives without warning and leaves quickly. The Rotterdam works are the counterpoint: De Rotterdam's vertical geometry and the red giants of Katendrecht Harbour are what the Dutch city looks like when it stops apologising for being modern.

The nature works from Etten-Leur are the slowest ground in the series. Geese in formation, a mallard mid-landing, an autumn tunnel of beech — scenes that require waiting rather than travelling. Home Ground is the proof that sustained attention to what is immediately available produces work as rigorous as anything brought back from Uganda or Botswana.