These photographs result from a walk on the mountain of Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari Shrine. To add to the mystic nature of the surroundings, I decided to let the camera move a lot during shooting. This is a technique I usually like to use, especially in a green environment, to enhance the harmony and oneness of the vegetation. In this series, however, the vivid red of the gates provides a stark contrast with the peaceful green, balancing the calm nature with a sense of action or urgency. Walking there in a parade of tourists, it sometimes seems like the inherent spirituality of the place is lost on its visitors. However, through the flow and ambiguous vagueness of the pictures, a sense of spirituality is embedded in the images. It will evoke that sense in the memory of anyone who has been there or in the imagination of anyone else.

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About

As a student of many disciplines, like computer science, music and linguistics, my passion lies with photography and other visual art forms. I grew up in Amsterdam, Netherlands, but matured as a photographer when living in Taiwan from 2015 to 2017 for Chinese language studies. During that time, I had the privilege of enjoying a few trips in the region of East Asia that stimulated my interest in travel and street photography and providing lots of opportunities to experiment with different styles of photography. I have been based in the Netherlands for the past years, trying to find the exceptional in the ordinary.