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Fine art photographer, filmer and image maker from the Netherlands for editorial- and cultural publications like Time Magazine, Vrij Nederland and Avenue. He is also guest teacher/lecturer at KASK (Ghent), School of Visual Arts (New York), Cape Peninsula University of Technology, (Capetown), HKU (Utrecht), KABK (The Hague) and The Design Academy (Eindhoven).
http://www.andrethijssen.com
Is there any feeling, besides happiness, that surpasses the experience of adventure? Yes, the pleasant surprise of the new. This can happen even when well into old age and pockmarked by years bygone, if you remain open to the experience of receiving these novel encounters.
As a maker of images, with the camera as my tool, I’ve done the necessary travelling in search of adventure. Awakening in a strange bed, in a new location, and entering a new world after breakfast, full of anticipation, is always pleasantly charged.
One can avoid an expensive plane ticket by veering from your usual routine. Preferentially by walking, so that you’ll be able to catch details that may seem unimportant
I find it an extraordinary sensation to glimpse an intriguing mystery in the corner of your eye that makes you slow your pace.
When the two dimensional reproduction of such a mystery still conjures that same enjoyable feeling of the inscrutable in both yourself and in others, one could say that you have a successful work before you.
The images in my archive are not always of equal obscurity; some are of a more anecdotal nature. These photos are more about situations, sometimes puzzling as to why someone would leave a situation a certain way.
Approaching the subject from an unexpected angle can result in new, surprising meaning.
http://nl.blurb.com/books/4531276-fringe-phenomena-3
