Beautiful or ugly? Smiling or crying? Or maybe thoughtful? Or just silly?…
Lying on the table or looking for something behind it? Or maybe resting in this absurd way? Or perhaps the person is even dead…
You can guess but you don’t know for sure, because the indication of these emotions, feelings, moods and characteristic features, which can immediately tell you the whole story at once, is missing. The face is missing.
Annaleen Louwes, the Dutch photographer, turns people’s faces away from us. She is taking a photograph of a dancer stiffened in one of the passes, a patient from the mental hospital, a duo of theatre makers, or this photo of a young woman in a traditional Dutch costume leaning across the table. A photo made for an exhibition related to the subject of Dutch Folklore.
She raises all these questions and leaves us with no answer.
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