Mannen op kamelen met op de achtergrond piramides in Egypte before 1905

This picture of men on camels with pyramids in the background was printed at some point, but we don’t know exactly when. I imagine the photographer standing out in the desert in the intense heat, waiting for the perfect moment to capture this scene. There's a quiet stillness in the image; the figures are spaced out, each seemingly lost in their own thoughts as they traverse the landscape. The light has a soft glow to it that casts long shadows, highlighting the texture of the sand and the monumental scale of the pyramids. It reminds me of a dream or a memory, something far away in time. It makes me think about how we try to capture moments, to freeze them in time, but they always shift and change in our memory. Like when you are painting, you keep adding layers, and each layer changes the ones underneath. I’m always looking for that one gesture that can carry all the weight of feeling.