Groepsportret van Wilhelmina van Zijll de Jong, Dootje van Zijll de Jong, Tootje Wassink, Meinard Dorus Mijer, Catherine Gertrude van Delden en Henriëtte Wassink 1930 - 1935

This small photograph captures six women and one man, their names carefully recorded, though the photographer remains anonymous. I can imagine the scene, setting up the shot, maybe a few tries to get everyone in the frame, the light just right. Photography is so interesting because it can capture a moment and the people in it, but it also tells a story about the relationship between the photographer and the subject, and the space they both inhabit. There is something very real and intimate about this image, like a snapshot from a family album. There is also a sense of formality to the scene. I wonder if they knew how strange it would look to us now, so many years later. It makes you wonder who took this photograph and how they felt about the people in it, all these questions that can never be answered, or perhaps, can be answered in looking.