Portret van twee baby's in een kinderwagen, waarschijnlijk de tweeling Ad en Johanna van der Kop after 1901

Willem Carel van der Kop made this photograph of two babies in a pram, probably the twin sisters Ad and Johanna van der Kop. It’s so sepia, it's as if the image is remembering itself. The material quality, the physical print, it's like holding a memory in your hands. Look at the baby on the left, her teeny tiny thumb sticking up – it's a detail you might miss at first glance. It lends her a knowing air, a sense of quiet confidence. She's like a little philosopher in a bonnet, contemplating the world from her antique pram. It reminds me of the photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, those soft-focus portraits that blurred the line between reality and dream. Both artists using the camera as a tool for emotional exploration. It’s this embrace of ambiguity, this willingness to let the image be a bit fuzzy and undefined, that makes it so compelling.