Julia / 3 min 36 s
160x220 cm
2001

Julia / 3 min 36 s is a portrait consisting of 78 images. The name refers to the person in the pictures and to the time that elapsed when taking these pictures. Julia was asked to sit in front of a film camera alone in a room for one hour. With a long cable release the photographer exposed one frame every two seconds. Julia / 3 min 36 s is a section of this one hour long material.

The work emerges from the tradition of portraiture. Many of the questions that the work is dealing with also have to do with this tradition. Central questions are that of time, identity and representation.

I believe that our understanding of photography is historically constructed. This means that the uses of photography have influenced the way we see and give meaning to photographs. Important influences on portraiture have derived e.g. from scientific uses of photography, police photography and the tradition of portraiture.