Beerend Honing

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.' - Susan Sontag

For the past year and a half I have photographed obsessively in response to the emotional states, thoughts and impressions that passed through my mind on any given day.  

The people and places I photographed serve as expressions of an internal emotional landscape, which through the repeated act of sifting through a large archive of images, become an attempt to reconcile myself with the passing of time. 

 In ‘Half Sun, Half Desire’ I search for something to hold on to. Something to withstand the malleability and unreliability of my memory, that which would withstand time’s unyielding passage; something like a refuge. 

Through an intimate study of the lived experience, what takes shape is a universally human search. A search that admits the confusions, uncertainties and maybe most importantly to live the questions, despite knowing there is no answer. A search that has nothing to do with the answer.