STRUCTURES Abstract Analog Antwerp | Photography by Thijs Koelink Black & white photographs with architectural constructed compositions. Taken with an analog camera using a double-exposure technique, Thijs Koelink created a selection of graphic panoramic images reflecting the structures of the Northern Antwerp docks.
Gallery Louiza, Antwerp 2012
360 Panorama link: http://pnr.ma/eEiitt
STUDIO AYQIDO, Utrecht 2013 / 2014
Urban’s Finest Exhibition, Utrecht 2014
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EXHIBITION
PHOTOGRAPHER
Black and white photographs with architectural constructed compositions. These photographs we’re taken with an analog camera where the film was exposed two times, resulting in a great selection of graphic panoramic images reflecting the structures of the northern Antwerp docks.Thijs Koelink; Photographer, filmmaker and Art director of STUDIO AYQIDO is a true virtuoso with images, film and graphic design.
Thijs Koelink is a graduated photographer and self taught filmmaker, originally from the Netherlands. He translated his raw and graphic graffiti background into photographs and short films, both having the dynamic and in your face attitude that he found in street art. Thijs Koelink studied photography in The Netherlands and was an intern at the Martin Parr - Magnum Photos - Office in London. His work has been exhibited internationally, from The Dutch Photo Museum (Rotterdam), Huis Marseille (Amsterdam) to Saatchi&Saatchi Gallery (London).
Thijs Koelink lived in the Antwerp docks for two years, an harbour area with a great international background. Browsing around in this raw industrial setting, he reinvented his photographic skills through the experimental use of a second hand panoramic camera, using a double exposure technique with monochrome film. This resulted in a project and various exhibitions with extra-large photo prints (mounted on aluminium), accompanied by audiovisuals made in collaboration with MOK-C music and industrial soundscapes by sound designer HANZA.
His photographic work ‘Structures’ has been a solo exhibition in Gallery Louiza in Antwerp (Belgium) and STUDIO AYQIDO Gallery (Utrecht). The latest exhibition was an installation in Urban’s Finest Gallery (Utrecht), where audiovisuals were projected inside a sea-container and photo-prints were presented on the outsides of the container.
‘DOUBLE VISION’ PROJECT AREA Article in Flanders Today - June 13, 2012 The world has always entered Antwerp via the Scheldt River. Part of the world left the metropolis via the Eilandje. The Eilandje is the oldest harbour area in Antwerp. The Red Star Line was responsible for quite a bit of activity in the harbour for more than half a century. When it disappeared and the harbour moved to the hinterland, things became quiet on the Eilandje. But now it is booming once again! With their whole life packed in a few suitcases, millions of people sailed from Europe to America after 1800. The United States and Canada were the promised land for fortune seekers and everyone looking for a better life. For many people, the trip to the New World began in a warehouse in Antwerp. Red Star Line ocean steamers paved the way to a new life for about two million men, women and children between 1873 and 1934. Source: http://www.redstarline.be/en
Dutch photographer Thijs Koelink captures Antwerp’s docklands in a monochromatic experiment. “It’s not often that the industrial backbone of the Antwerp docklands is celebrated for its beauty. Still, the way in which Dutch photographer and filmmaker Thijs Koelink captures the area in the exhibition Structures: Abstract Analog Antwerp, is undeniably elegant. The panoramic black-and-white photographs, on show in Antwerp’s new Gallery Louiza, are abstract constructions of industrial lines and graphic patterns. Each image is a product of a double-exposure technique the 31-year-old photographer mastered through experimentation. In a time where we’re using smartphones to filter our digital images to get fake analogue effects, the authenticity is refreshing. “With analogue, what you get is a big surprise,” Koelink says. “You could create a similar effect digitally by setting the opacity and overlaying them. But these have been made manually, which makes them more objective and incalculable...” Source: http://www.flanderstoday.eu/arts/double-vision
EXHIBITIONS STUDIO AYQIDO, Utrecht Solo Exhibition - Structures Photography November 2013 - July 2014 Urban’s Finest Gallery, Utrecht Group Exhibition October 2014 Structures, Gallery Louzia, Antwerp Solo Exhibition - Structures Photography June 2012 - August 2012
Huis Marseille, Photo Museum Amsterdam Group Exhibition Projection ‘No.52’ July – August 2006
AWARD Steenbergen Stichting, The Haque ‘Best Runner Up’ Award Film / Photo project ‘No.52’ December 2006
Guerillia Store Comme des Garçons, The Haque Group Exhibition - Photography and Film ‘No 52’ August - September 2007 Cultgeist, Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery, London Group Exhibition - Presentation 4C catalogue Projection Film ‘No.52’ July 2007 Dutch Photo Museum, Rotterdam Group Exhibition - Projection Film ‘No.52’ Steenbergen ‘best runner up’ prijs December 2006
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