Categorie: Foto

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Track & Trace

© Jack Kruf (2019) Track & Trace [fine art print]. Breda: Open end edition.

The streets of the city are full of signs to tell us how to navigate and where to find essential elements of the architecture how we build our communities, especially here about how to track and trace the gas pipeline. It is almost a peace of art.

Well, step back 1,3 meter from the wall and step 40 cm to the right. If you want to visit this part of the underground world of the city –  for reason of maintenance or development – dig here and find the gas pipeline, which connects this house to the world wide web. Smart it is. Art too.

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One image, two traits

I caught this two traits of humanity into this one image. I thought a lot of it actually how to express my thoughts in this strangely destructed part of the forest. Tears came into my eyes, to see a bunch of beeches been cut off in this way. I asked myself, as ecologist, forester, walker, human being: why?

© Jack Kruf (2021) One image, two traits [fine art print]. Breda: Private collection.
At the same time a plane, so high in the sky. Humanity has produced this advanced peace of technique of sailing upon air. Wow. For now, it showed me that humanity has two sides of its same coin. Two traits, actually. Going forward, and going backwards. That of progress and regress. Development and destruction.
I wondered, as watcher of the skies (thanks Genesis), what on this picture the ‘traits of humanity’ are, which actually meet. Quite a moment during my walk in the forest.
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A bath in Bath

There are cities where even the name is inclusive to its brand and gestalt. The city of Bath, Somerset, is famous for its well preserved Roman baths, which were built around 60 AD. It is a place of spa, still.

© Jack Kruf (2020) A bath in Bath [fine art print]. Breda: Private collection.
Maybe this identity has brought this city towards its present skyline. It is an unique cityscape. The contrast of more than 2000 years of history and the group of swimmers anno 2020 is caught in this one image. It are the light contrasts on this hot summer evening in the city which give the photo a special reflective flavour.
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Kinderdijk Mills

© Jack Kruf (2021) Kinderdijk Mills [fine art print]. Breda: Private collection.

The mills at Kinderdijk on a cloudy winter day. These impressive artefacts show themselves as well as their reflections in this grey and misty landscape. This is an UNESCO World Heritage site at the Alblasserwaard, one of the oldest polders in The Netherlands.

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Spider and I

© Jack Kruf (2018) Spider and I. Breda: Private collection.

We meet every time of the year, at the crossroad of October and November, when autumn is in full swing. Where I admire its art work and skills to create and walk the web. And spider knows we offer it a safe place to build its house.

That is our policy: to increase biodiversity around the house. Spider knows. This natural beauty found its place. We meet here. No, it is not the moment to compare spider with some political leader (global and local), but just wonder and admire. The colours of its body are really astonishing.