ABOUT

Niels Roest’s creative efforts begin by capturing mundane subjects that evoke the awareness that time is passing. These still life details are modest disruptions of everyday scenario’s that reveal the unconscious ways we conduct our lives. By doing so, Niels considers the relationship between history on an existential level and the capturing qualities of photography.

He uses his accumulated archive of images as a starting point to explore ways to interfere with the apparent transparency of photography as a medium, emphasising its status as a means for visual representation. By working with various analogue and digital techniques he is giving form to a visual vocabulary characterised by various degrees of abstraction.