Gezicht op transportkarren onderweg naar Kroonstad, Zuid-Afrika 1901

This photograph captures transport carts on their way to Kroonstad, South Africa. Imagine being there with the photographer, watching this vastness unfold, and deciding to frame it just so. The light seems to flatten everything, turning the carts into almost abstract forms. I wonder what it was like for the photographer in that moment. Were they thinking about composition, or were they just trying to capture a moment in time? The horizon line flattens the carts, each one a slightly different shade of brown and grey, almost like a series of minimalist sculptures lined up across the plains. You can almost feel the dust and the heat. It reminds me a bit of some of the early landscape painters, who were trying to capture the vastness of the American West. But here, there’s something more immediate, more documentary. It’s a reminder that art is always in conversation with the world around it, responding to the moment, and yet somehow, still timeless.