Feb 10, 2010
ZOOMING IN ON PHOTOS/TUNING IN ON ANGELS
De Volkskrant, Wednesday 3th of February 2010
Port au Prince Haïti, 25th of January 2010, photo Tomas Bravo/Reuters
De Volkskrant, Wednesday 10th of February 2010
A Friday afternoon in North Brabant, Holland photo Erik Haverhals/ANP
De Aarsman Collectie/The Aarsman Collection
Every week on Wednesday Hans Aarsman (photographer/writer) writes about photo(s) in a spread in the Volkskrant, one of the biggest newspapers in The Netherlands, that caught his eye in the ‘news feed’. He discusses all kind of photos but mainly news photos that are not ‘digestible/interesting’ enough for the norms of a daily newspaper. He is a kind of mediator between the ‘feed’ of the newspaper and its readers.
He ‘zooms in’ on these photos, grasping every element that is visible and could lead to a new interpretation of what we are seeing. Little details can be the starting point of new interpretations and a better understanding of what is happening.
“There is not one truth. At least there are seven”. (Quote from Hans Aarsman, De Aarsman Collectie, 2005 Nai Publishers, Rotterdam)
Hans Aarsman is on twitter: twitter.com/Hansaarsman
Contribution to An ABC of Aesthetic Journalism: News
Angels FM 98.0
Moniek Toebosch
Located on the Houtrib dyke between Enkhuizen en Lelystad in The Netherlands drivers could tune in to a radiofrequency and listen the whole length of the dyke (29 km) to the singing of angels. It was located there between 1994-1999.
Contribution to An ABC of Aesthetic Journalism: Media / Mass Media