Hi y’all!
I spent my summer developing a series of 24 photos of Amsterdam, called komkommertijd (I am taking my Dutch integration seriously with all the vernacular). The general plan is to create, over a year, a set of 24 photos that capture the sense of quietitute, restraint, and melancholy that I see hidden in the small pockets of dense urbanism that is Amsterdam. This is all done with my old, large format camera, shooting film, and contact printing; much in the manner of Ed Weston and the older folks I adore.
The first 6 is now done and I’m excited to share them with you! This set is 6 photos taken in the neighborhood of Indische Buurt, and for those of you familiar with my earlier work, is similar to my series about the nights in New Delhi.
I’m now making a limited run of 12 sets of these 6 photographs, all archivally processed and selenium toned by ya boi, the only conservator with the specialized training in conserving photographic materials, in the Indian subcontinent. I’m selling these to bankroll the next sets, as film and paper and chemicals are expensive when you are trying to photograph like it's 1929 in the 21st century – and despite being a graduate student in Northern Europe, I’m still on the brink of being a starving artist because of my penchant for high quality prints and old techniques.
I am proposing to sell 12 of you a set of 6 photographs, for €130, plus shipping. Here are some scans of the set to give you an idea - as I’m sure you can imagine, they are scant copies of the actual prints, which have a luminous quality and are printed on Pearl paper. The size of the paper is 5x7 inches, with the image just over 4x5 inches. I will only do reprints of this set one year later when the whole series is done.
The photos are all, and will be all, of trees and grass and plants and the little things that we pass by and look and nod at from a distance,and hopefully I will be able to capture the moment of solace they provide to the what seems to be ever increasingly grim reality of the world we live in and the society we have generated around us. An attempt if you may, to have serenity to accept the things we cannot change, and the courage to change the things we can.
As an addendum to this shill, I also want to reach out to thank y’all for your support and encouragement. Gawd knows, if I would have listened to my parents I would be an engineer or a lawyer right now. It’s a hard time trying to do what you feel a calling for, and it would be damn near impossible to do it if I didn’t have so many of you rooting for me. And for that, I am already rich beyond the dreams of avarice
Rahul
My email is rahulsharmajammu at Gmail dot com
My email is rahulsharmajammu at Gmail dot com
