Kamer van de redactie van de Deli Courant Possibly 1908 - 1910

This photo, Kamer van de redactie van de Deli Courant, whoever made it, probably used a big camera, on a tripod, to take this picture, wherever it was. It seems the photographer might have been interested in showing the atmosphere of work. I feel like this might have been in the days when photography was used to document certain cultures and ways of life, with all the people doing their work. The piles of paper surrounding the two figures are so interesting. I can almost feel the weight of all the material and the presence of the archive and the documents. I wonder what the people were like and whether they ever thought someone would look at a picture of them working. I also wonder what the relationship of the photographer was to the people in the picture. We are always seeing what we think is new, but really, everything new comes from something old. It's a process, like writing, like living, like making a photograph.