Overview

This print is part of the series Domestic Landscapes, an ongoing project by Dutch photographer Bert Teunissen that aims to capture traditional homes across Europe, while recording the rural traditions that are slowly disappearing due to the encroachment of modernity. 

Each of Teunissen’s colour photographs is composed around natural sources of light, and it is this light that lends the photographs a painterly quality, evocative of the great Dutch Masters Vermeer and Rembrandt.

‘The inhabitants of the houses I seek and photograph, still know how something should taste, how it has to be made; they understand the  importance of time and ripening, they know the meaning and value of repetition – daily – yearly... Their houses and ways of life are fading out of our societies, forever, together with their knowledge.  It is my aim to capture this, wherever I can find it, before it disappears completely.’ 
Bert Teunissen