Skelet, gevonden bij archeologische opgravingen te Hongarije 1928

Jan Lanting made this photograph of a skeleton that had been found in an archeological dig in Hungary. I wonder about that moment, the moment of discovery, when the bones were revealed, and the photographer captured this arrangement in the earth. It feels very still, doesn't it? Like a paused moment in time. I think about the photographer, Jan Lanting, born in 1896, seeing the past through a lens. There's something intimate about the way the bones are framed, almost tender. Lanting might have been thinking about our shared human fate and the stories that the ground keeps hidden. It makes me think about the stories that can be found under our own feet! Photography and archeology are intertwined, each revealing layers of the past and inspiring one another’s creativity. Think about how artists, from painters to photographers, are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, each adding their voice to the ongoing narrative of what it means to be human.