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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