Vrouw bij een vijver bij Garoet, Nederlands-Indië c. 1895 - 1915

This black and white photograph of a woman by a pond in Garoet, Nederlands-Indië was taken by Onnes Kurkdjian. Just imagine him hauling all that equipment to capture the composition of the woman, the pond, and the landscape in the background. I can almost feel the air of the landscape through the photograph: the humidity, the breeze through the trees, the sun beating down. You can really imagine the landscape and what it would be like to be there. It reminds me that art is like a conversation across time. Kurkdjian probably never imagined that over a century later, someone like me would be looking at his photo and thinking about his life.