Intimate Distance

2022

A face lit green through a dark car window at night.

A silhouette against a rain-streaked window of coloured night lights.

A young woman's face against a rain-flecked window at night, city lights blurred around her.

A blurred figure behind glass amid pink and white lights.

A hooded person lit by a shaft of light against a dark wall.

A woman's face softly reflected in a sunlit window.

Two faces close together behind a rain-speckled window at night.

A person smoking behind a beaded curtain in purple and green light.

A face peering out amid a blur of coloured night lights.

A face obscured behind rain-streaked, amber-lit glass.

Blurred umbrellas and green light through rain-covered glass.

A person's face behind a rain-flecked, warm-lit window at night.

A face behind a window run with condensation and rain.

A person by a rain-streaked bus window, a red light glowing behind.

Close-range portraits made in Utrecht and Amsterdam between 2017 and 2022, often through glass. The series looks at a contradiction of urban life: strangers sharing compressed physical space while remaining socially and emotionally separate.

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