Nice feeling/color/comp of the first image - you've just clipped off the bottom of the chair legs and the bases of the rightmost column pairs though? - not sure about that. Maybe minor but would have gotten those elements in the frame.
What does either of them have to do with rubber?Jeremy
Quit a lot, Jeremy. Check out Congo Free State, the pre-colonial period of Belgium.See:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State?wprov=sfti1That’s the reason I’m working on a series about rubber and what Belgium today is thanks and despite it.The second image is going to fit later in the series, the link between Congo and (Blood) diamonds is another artefact of Colonial Belgium.
Interesting. But the link between Caoutchouc and the railway station is not self evident and needs some explanation.I'm told that in Brussels there is even a monument to that person Leopold IISomething equivalent to having a monument to Hitler in Berlin. At least IMHO
Actually I’m testing images. The story should emerge from the series once it’s finished. There are more than one statue of our first king. Streets and squares are named to him. The whole discussion around Leopold and his responsibility in the free state Congo massacre is complex to answer. Therefore I’m searching for how Belgium today is still a reflection of colonial robberies and murder.
I have no idea about Belgium being a reflection of what occurred in Africa but for sure the DRC is a reflection of what happened. You cannot brutalize a society and kill that large a percentage of its population for simple economic expediency without the consequences lingering for generations. My girlfriend flies up there for work now and again. The place is pretty much screwed. It’s horrifying that there are still statues of Leopold on display. Perhaps a label could simply be attached to the pedestal stating how many millions of people he had killed.
Quit a lot, Jeremy. Check out Congo Free State, the pre-colonial period of Belgium.
You're obviously aiming at those better-informed than I. Belgians perhaps. For the rest of the world, I suggest more exposition.Jeremy
I'm aware of the appalling Belgian behaviour in Africa. I would suggest, though, that it will take more than the title "rubber" to make a series of photographs of buildings, however oddly framed, have meaning to most of humanity. Still, it's not my time or pixels, so you carry on.Jeremy
it will take more than the title "rubber" to make a series of photographs of buildings, however oddly framed, have meaning to most of humanity.Jeremy
Actually I’m testing images. The story should emerge from the series once it’s finished.
A photograph frequently walks the line between accessibility/boring and incomprehensibility/interesting. You need to find the balance.
