The Humanness of Our Lonely Selves | Awoiska van der Molen | Fw:Books 2024

The Humanness of Our Lonely Selves | Awoiska van der Molen | Fw:Books 2024"Critically acclaimed for her psychological landscape images, Awoiska van der Molen presents a new body of work with understated black and white photos of built up environments that reveal traces of human presence: she zooms in on illuminated windows in the darkness of the evening in Japan. One could say that these windows function as a screen between the photographer (or the observer) and the world, between a psychological inner world and the

looking at her face while she sleeps

But it was also that darkness that brought my numbed senses back

" – Afterword by Hiromi Tsuchida

When the sweet nectar of my youth was gone

and stains and writings on the negatives are included as they are

The internal case is stained as is the print accompanying the book

Looking into a future full of uncertainty

which record ever-changing scenery and cultures of his homeland

they will leave people with hatred and create further conflict

grandparents

there is no turning back

From the Introduction by Mark Steinmetz: