BART ZWEMMER PHOTOGRAPHY

On Januari 7th we recorded the song “As” with Klingeler & Van Rossum. The video was recorded at Sociëteit Vereeniging in Haarlem.

Sit back and enjoy the music!

For a greenhouse corporation, T&A Survey is managing a drilling project for geothermal energy. The target is to extract warm water from a depth of 2800 meters and utilize this for heating the greenhouses. This should reduce CO₂ emissions by 50%.

As some of you may know, there is an exhibit going on at cafe ‘t Kantoor in Haarlem, showing the pictures I took last summer at one of the last leprosis communities in Europe. You can still visit till halfway januari.

Here are some backstage pictures of putting everything on the walls.

See the event on Facebook for details.

Tot half januari is de tentoonstelling “Tichilesti – de vergeten gemeenschap” te bezichtigen in cafe ‘t Kantoor.

De tentoonstelling geeft een fotografisch overzicht van een van de laatste leprakolonies in Europa, die van Tichilesti in Roemenie. In juni 2011 hebben Georgiana Ghioc en Bart Zwemmer deze gemeenschap bezocht en de inwoners geinterviewd en gefotografeerd. Kijk hier voor de portfolio.

In cafe ‘t Kantoor, Gierstraat 78, Haarlem, zijn enkele van deze foto’s te bezichtigen.
Zondag t/m donderdag: 16.00 – 02.00 uur
Vrijdag, zaterdag en koopzondag: 14:00 – 02.00 uur.

Last evening, Klingeler & Van Rossum, good friends, neighbours and musicians, performed live at the Jopenkerk in Haarlem for local broadcasting company Haarlem 105.

They played live in between the interviews that were given and we interviewed themself as well. Here are some behing the scene / atmoshpere shots of that evening.

With a fair regularity, I travel between Haarlem and Amsterdam by train. I usually get off at Amsterdam Sloterdijk station. With me, 36.000 people every day get on or of a train there. This number doesn’t even include the ones changing trains.

The humans around me have always interested me. Not only as suitable subjects to photograph, but also because of their behavior in general. Walking through a city or a train station, you can see plenty of them passing by. Because we only witness them for a brief moment, we can stop and wonder about where they are going and why they are going there.

To me, these happenings are unique. I only see those people once. For them it is probably part of a routine. We wake up, eat, work, eat, sleep, meet, eat, ***, and some other stuff. All of these are part of our routines.

“A travelling incarceration. Immobile inside the train, seeing immobile things slip by. [...] Nothing is moving inside or outside the train. [...] Except for this lapse [the restroom] given over to excesses, everything has its place in a gridwork. Only a rationalized cell travels. [...] Inside, there is the immobility of an order. Here rest and dreams reign supreme. There is nothing to do, one is in the state of reason.
Outside, there is another immobility, that of things, towering mountains, stretches of green field and forest, arrested villages, colonnades of buildings, black urban silhouettes against the pink evening sky, the twinkling of nocturnal lights on a sea that precedes or succeeds our histories. The train generalizes Dürer’s Melancholia, a speculative experience of the world: being outside of these things that stay there, detached and absolute, that leave us without anything to do with this departures themselves; being deprived of them, surprised by their ephemeral and quiet strangeness. Astonishment in abandonment.
[...]
Everyone goes back to work at a place they have been given, in the office or the workshop, the incarceration-vacation is over. For the beautiful abstraction of the prison are substituted the compromises, opacities and dependencies of a workplace. There comes to an end the adventure of the travelling noble soul that could believe itself intact because it was surrounded by glass and iron.” (de Certeau, 1984)¹

When we travel in these cells, to or from Amsterdam Sloterdijk for example, we travel with a lot of other people. Still, we don’t know who they are, where they come from or go to. What part of their routine we are witnessing or even participating in?

Doens’t this make you curious?

To see the pictures of the project, please go to the portfolio here.

^{1‘Railway navigation and incarceration’ from ‘The practice of everyday life’ by Michel de Certeau, 1984.}

Hello,

I’m away for about two weeks. Flying to Romania tomorrow. Lets hope the dogs wont bite this time. The plan is, amongst other trips, to pay a visit to Tichilesti, one of the last lepper colonies in Europe. I hope to bring back some nice pictures, but think that should work out.

On June 11th, 2011, I visited the Orientalicious Shimmy Shake Festival, held at the Tropen Theater, Amsterdam. Here are some impressions of the various (international) acts. The dances varied from traditional belly dancing, to modern forms and techniques.

On June 5th, I have spent a day at the TT race track in Assen. There, I followed the Moritz Racing Team in the Superleague Formula. During the day, we saw the preparing of the car and the drivers before the race.

Although the Moritz team was doing well, a rude competitor ended their race prematurely.

May has been a busy month. It varied from taking pictures and portraits on a bachelor party (congratulations Laura), taking pictures in my free time, giving a workshop and taking group photo’s with Buro RUW for Van Leeuwen pipes and tubes and ADP respectively. And in one of the last days of the month, I captured the Wecycle Awards for primary schools in Zandvoort.