Vanishing Landscapes (Nederland, 2011)
The long history of peat extraction has produced striking landscapes in various places in the Netherlands. The peat was dug up or dredged up, dried and sold as peat as fuel for heating houses.
In the peat landscape outside Amsterdam, this resulted in a lake area full of islands. The areas photographed in Vanishing Landscapes have since been used as recreational areas. The plots where once the peat dried and laborers performed heavy physical labor up to their knees in the swamp are now used for holidays. Thanks to the use of large-format landscape cameras and film negatives, Zuijderwijk/Vergouwe expose a world of details and textures.
