Kasteel Hoensbroek 1910

This sepia photograph of Kasteel Hoensbroek was captured by an anonymous photographer in 1910, revealing the process of image-making in its own time. The tones in this image are really quite narrow, giving it a timeless, almost ghostly feel. The texture looks smooth, but it is hard to tell if that is the process of the camera, or the hand of the photographer. The sepia tone almost feels like time itself aging the image. It’s hard to ignore the dark, cavernous entrance to the keep on the left, it pulls your focus, but doesn’t invite you in. It almost warns you to stay away. This is very much in keeping with the work of Eugène Atget. He captured the architecture of Paris in a similar way, at the turn of the century. Art is an ongoing conversation, always asking more questions than it answers.