Een lid van de Wehrmacht in een roeiboot 1940 - 1945

This small black and white photograph shows a member of the Wehrmacht in a rowboat, and we don't even know who took it. I want to look closer, I want to think about the moment this picture was taken. I can imagine this person in this picture paused for a second in what must have been an intense moment in their life. They took a breath, maybe looked up at the sky, and then looked at the camera. I imagine the photographer, also anonymous, maybe another soldier, asking their friend to pose. It makes you wonder what he was thinking, what he was feeling, and what he was going to do next. The light and water feel quiet, and that water gives this picture a sense of depth. Photography, like painting, captures a moment in time. It freezes it, but it also opens it up to endless questions and possibilities. And those possibilities, those questions, are what keep me coming back to art, keep me inspired to make my own work.