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Bob Wielaard
Bob is a photographer and furniture designer living in the Netherlands. Photographing the landscape is a quest through the world he is living in. As a perfect combination with hiking he explores the land for its beauty, history, presence and absence of man. After graduating from School of Art, photography plays an increasingly important part. Working ‘out of doors’ he continually discovers what a landscape means to him. His pictures are mainly black and white and recently he decided to return to film and darkroom again.
Urged by the humanist Petrarch, I climbed Mont Ventoux. Yet the goal turned out not to be the top. It was the mystery of the descent, wandering through unruly earthly 'materiality', past uncanny caves through unknown seclusion, ending in deep twilight. This environment was in great contrast to the space and light of the top and gave me a completely different experience of space. Ultimately, these unknown aspects of this mountain turned out to be a photographic pilgrimage for me.
