Life is simple. One goes to Antwerp, meets his one year old granddaughter on a table in a pub and that’s it.
‘The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.’
Orson Welles
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” Ralph Hattersley
“Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.”
Helen Levitt
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
Andy Warhol
Photography reveals. Point final.
Happening without significance.
….Heras.
Grandfather’s destiny.
“There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.”
Susan Sontag
Antwerp, celebrating the act of observation.
If you have something to say with a camera then show it, otherwise it’s better to bake a cake.
Jason Eskenazi
(a rectangular journey)
(A square journey)
(Railways, heading to Antwerp)
(Old School Zoo of Antwerp)
(Moms come in all shapes and sizes – the zoo)
(All shapes & sizes – in front of the zoo)
(The photographer as human resources gazer)
(Sorry for the amount of my daily astonishment. Sorry, especially to my family.)
(Antwerp blues)
(While spending a lazy sunday)
(Spending an hour in Antwerp – looking for terrorism)
The mind is the real instrument of sight and observation; the eyes are just a vessel receiving and transmitting the visible portion of consciousness. – Pliny