grossformat tomatenmark

This was the first time I showed my large format work in public. Seven analog prints, each enlarged by myself 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. What I was after was the structure and the atmosphere, and the feeling of being there. They aren't one single series, they share a way of looking.

Printing them large mattered to me, because at that size you stop scanning an image and start standing inside it. I wanted them to work like the busy, detail-packed pictures in a children's book, where the longer you look the more you find, until you lose yourself in it.

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

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