grossformat tomatenmark

This was the first time I showed my large format work in public. Seven analog prints, each developed and enlarged by hand in the darkroom, at a scale of 100 × 125 cm.

The images come from places shaped by an event, but I was never after the action or the decisive moment. I was after the structure, the atmosphere and the feeling of being there. They are not one single series, they share a way of looking.

Printing them large mattered to me. At that size you stop scanning an image and start standing inside it.

The name comes from the two things that mattered most to me back then. Large format and the work I was building with it, and tomato paste, which I am convinced belongs in almost everything.