Playtime

Playing games,

Streetgames,

Learning the rules,

Making them up,

Making do,

With next to nothing.

I started here

A new exhibition:

Foundling Voices.

Fascinating,

Oral history.

What it was like for them,

Then, 

Their childhood,

In those conditions.

Archives,

Images galore,

Back in time we go,

Memories

Flooding back:

Clapping, chasing, conkers - catch me if you can...

Enjoy,

This trip down memory lane!

Games from the past,

Brought back to life*

To play,

To pass on,

To your children,

Let's not forget...

*in Dutch

Images taken from "City Games Buiten Spelen in de Stad"

Ann Winder-Boyle

These Loves Fled Away

Travelling Companions

Love Letters On Blue Paper

Hide and Seek

The Dealer

"How much of our happiness or unhappiness in life is linked to expectation?"

Over time, Ann Winder Boyle's work has evolved to explore the link between expectation and our sense of fulfillment. Her small-scale work collaged with books and beeswax is intimate and intriguing. Fleeting moments, nostalgic and playful, but also melancholic and dark (take a closer look at The Dealer, for example), I would love to own one of her pieces. 

I hope you will take the time to explore Ann's beautiful portfolio and watch the video on her site. She really is one of my favourite artists.

Emily Ulmer

In many ways, I see my images as a momentary impression of a point in time that we all leave behind - Emily Ulmer

I admit quite freely that I know very little about photography. However, occassionally I happen upon images like these and I am in intrigued. Los Angeles-based Emily Ulmer's children's portraits have a certain je-ne-sais-pas quoi about them, an atmosphere, a quality of light, that draw me in and make me want to find out more.

These two girls are especially captivating, don't you think?

Emily began her career by taking portraits of young people in that pivotal moment of transition from adolescence to adulthood. She has since become attracted to documenting childhood, and attempts to show the beauty of this key moment in life in its most natural state, photographing children in their own environments.

Emily is currently doing commissioned portraits as well as children's fashion stories, and can be contacted via her professional website. I hope we'll be seeing more of her work in the very near future.