Jonnah: «In bed we tell stories with each other’s bodies. People often remember the act itself, but all things surrounding end up to be forgotten: the actions as well as the setting. The exact moment of getting in bed remains unnoticed. But with my series, I capture what my bed partners and I have created together, subconsciously. ‘Where we did it’ shows whatever the process of lovemaking has left behind. I started taking the pictures out of a fear to forget and ended up publishing them out of a fear to be forgotten.»
Schier, 2017
Durgerdam, 2018
Durgerdam, 2018
Groningen, 2017
Groningen, 2019
Rotterdam, 2019
«The very first picture I took of a bed was because I wanted to remember the spontaneous night before. Because I knew I would never see her again. I wanted to have something to hold on to so that I wouldn’t forget the night we shared. I initially didn’t intend for it to be a photo series, but I didn’t stop after that first picture. Whenever I felt that I most likely would never return to the room we had just had sex in, I would take a picture to remember the place. Later on, when I saw the photos I had taken so far, I saw that in a way, it meant more than just ‘a happy memory’ to me. The photos with the empty beds turned out to have a different connotation. There are a lot of beds that I shared with a person I was in a relationship with. At that time, the bed seemed irrelevant, as the focus was on the person. But now that the relationship has ended, the bed becomes the subject.»
Amsterdam, 2018
Amsterdam, 2019
Amsterdam, 2018
Amsterdam, 2018
Rotterdam, 2017
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