Leprozenkolonie Danaradja: patiënten 1922

This set of photographs, by an anonymous artist, is from Leprozenkolonie Danaradja and features the patients who lived there. I imagine the photographer carefully framing each shot, maybe crouching low to capture the children playing, or carefully arranging the patients amidst the trees, trying to record something of their lives. The texture is grainy, almost like a charcoal drawing. The sepia tones give it a ghostly feel, but there's also a warmth, a sense of being present in that moment, like the sun-drenched days captured in a dream. What were they thinking as they framed these images? How did they want to represent these people, this community? In this act of witnessing, they invite us to see, to remember, to feel. It's more than just a document, it’s an attempt to understand and to preserve a moment in time.