Gezicht op de Rooms-Katholieke kerk te Berkel before 1910

This is a photograph of the Rooms-Katholieke kerk te Berkel, taken in April 1910. It makes me wonder about the person who took this image, and what it must have been like to stand in that field over a hundred years ago, in a small village by Tilburg. Imagine the world they inhabited, so different from our own. Did they sense a similar yearning for connection, meaning, beauty? I wonder about the building, the structure of the church and the trees that flank either side. The bare branches reach towards the sky like lines drawn on a page; and I think about the impulse to record the world around us. We make pictures to try and capture something essential about our lives. I am so grateful that they took this photo, to share this image with us today. It speaks across time.