Gezicht op de Sint-Pieterskerk te Utrecht 1910

This photograph of the Sint-Pieterskerk in Utrecht, made in October 1910, it's like a faded memory, a sepia dream. The anonymous photographer, probably working for Monumentenzorg, was wrestling with the light, trying to capture the weight of this old church. I bet they were thinking about time, about the layers of history clinging to those stones. I imagine them fiddling with the camera, trying to get the focus just right, squinting against the autumn sun. The scaffolding, like a skeleton embracing the church, hints at repair, at preservation, at the ongoing dialogue between past and present. That soft, grainy texture gives it a feeling of being aged. You know? Like a whisper from the past. The church stands there, solid but softened by time, surrounded by trees, witnessing the everyday life unfolding around it.