Twee foto's van Greet en Lien Lapp te paard, Wanasari 1910

Here we have two photographs of Greet and Lien Lapp on horseback, Wanasari by Carolina Onnen. They're sepia toned, mounted on a dark grey page. These photographs feel like a personal document of a moment. You know? The kind of image where the quality isn't as important as capturing a specific time. Look how the light kind of flattens everything out, but also creates these soft edges around the figures. There's a real sense of process here, of someone trying to capture something fleeting. The mounting of the images onto the page is interesting, too. Each image is placed in relation to the other, telling a story. I am reminded of Renger-Patzsch, his photographs of industrial subjects or plants, stripped of all romanticism, but with an attempt to show us the material world with clarity and precision. But unlike Renger-Patzsch, these images embrace ambiguity. They're not trying to be perfect, just real, you know? And in that, they become something truly special.