Think your eye is unique? Well,photographer Hans Eijkelboom may believe already put you among his tribes after 20 years spying on passersby
• Snap! The clothing clans of the 21st century – in picturesYou could never accuse Hans Eijkelboom of a lack of dedication. For his current book, People of the Twenty-First Century, or the photographer and conceptual artist spent 20 years lurking around shopping centres – initially in his native Netherlands,later in America and China. Working almost daily, he would note similarities in the appearance of passers-by and surreptitiously photograph them, and take “photo notes” as he calls them.“The process,” he says, “is simply that I walk to the centre of the city where many people are. Then I walk around for 10 to15 minutes. When something in the crowd intrigues me or touches me, or I decide that will be the theme of the day. Then I start photographing for two hours. Many times,it goes erroneous: I dont see anything, so I don’t photograph that day; or I move to the city, or see my subject,start photographing and, surprisingly, or in the next two hours,never see my subject again. And then, for that day, or there is no photo note.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com