Zeven foto's van Loentje en Willy Onnen met Winny Uhlenbeck en andere vrienden, met tennisrackets Possibly 1910 - 1926

This collection of photographs by Carolina (Loentje) Frederika Onnen captures Loentje and Willy Onnen, Winny Uhlenbeck, and other friends with tennis rackets. The images are faded, ghostly, and luminous all at once. I’m feeling a little nostalgic looking at this… Imagine her setting up the shot, gathering her friends, the feel of the camera in her hands. In some of these pictures, everyone’s arranged in a line, knees bent, like they’re about to take off. The tennis rackets are like props, right? A kind of semaphore – these poses communicate intention. Photography is an immediate medium, it captures a moment, but it also invites endless returns to the past. Like, what were they really thinking? What were they talking about? As an artist, you just want to know! The way artists work is like an ongoing conversation across time, each one responding to the other and, hopefully, opening up new possibilities for expression.