Camera Obscura

The Kearton brothers where one the the earliest wild life photographers. Their predecessor naturalists would often shoot birds to take home for scientific studies. Richard and Cherry Kearton shot wildlife ‘in situ’. Long exposure times in early photography did not allow capturing nature in full action so their subjects where often breeding birds, eggs and nests. As an homage to their work we made the publication Oology which you can see elsewhere in this Studies & Projects page.

Rutger uses analogue photography as a way to study the natural environment. The photographs are taken with a lensless pinhole camera. Due to the infinite depth of field, slightly blurred results, long exposure times, lack of control and absence of a viewfinder, pinhole photography is ideal for approaching the natural world in a non-hierarchical way. There is no protagonist in these photographs, nor is there a specific moment in time captured. These are just given situations that are there always.