‘Sunday Morning in November’ is my most featured photo. It was exhibited in Florence, New York and Tokyo and published in Hidden Treasure Art Magazine, 1 : 1 Photo Magazine and my book ‘In search of intimacy’. Through the years I got many requests for giving permisson to use this photo for a poster or book cover. I never said ‘Yes’ till now. It will feature the cover of ‘The autistic Alice’ written by Joanne Limburg and published March 2017 by Bloodaxe Books.
Afterwards I discovered ‘Sunday Morning in November’ was used several times as a book cover without permission by other publishers. In 2021 it was used again as a book cover, this time with permission, for ‘Hindred Spirits’ by Ed Perratore.
Photography is for everyone and belongs to all of us, but we still keep looking for the special and the exceptional among all the billions of snapshots. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, there is another discovery: Henri Senders (1958) decided to take up the camera seriously in 2006 and now, some eight years later, his first publication appears; a collection of female models portrayed behind a glass shelter. At first glance a cliché perhaps, but even if it were a well-trodden path, the result here is astonishingly consistent. Senders may be a relative novice in photography, he is mature enough to know what he is doing.
The book reminds me somewhat of the work of Miroslav Tichy, the Moravian who secretly photographed the ladies from his region with his self-made cameras, which resulted in deliberate technical imperfections and blurry, shaky, badly printed, scratched and unclear photos. But unlike Tichy’s work, what we see here is much more a confession of an obsession that was brought under control fairly quickly. In the epilogue, Senders indicates that he never works with a preconceived plan, but a certain focus on a desired result resonates throughout the book, and that concentration also seems to have radiated to the people portrayed – young ladies found on websites for model photography.
In Search Of Intimacy consists of 71 numbered plates, including the back cover, without further titles per image, which was a fortunate decision. Although made of fairly heavy paper, the pages remain translucent, which reinforces the sense of voyeurism that is already palpable in the images themselves, because Senders photographed the models behind glass walls (he hardly does any post-processing, all the blurry effects come from the chosen locations). Furthermore, the book has in the middle of each section black and white images that are reminiscent of the work of Gerard Fieret and Sanne Sannes. They give the book a subtle, but necessary, extra complexity.
In November 2014 my first book, titled ‘In search of intimacy’ was published by Lecturis. It contains a selection of my work from the period 2007-2014. The book shows 71 photos and is a combination of my work behind windows and a darker series that was put in the middle of each section.
This publication contains a series of 12 photos out of the period 2007-2012 titled Ínner World’. The text ‘Jasmine’ is used as an introduction to the series. It gives you an insight in the way I work and gives an example that shows you can never predict when you’ll make great work.
In the period 2008-2012 Zoom Magazine has asked five times permission to publish a photo: 2 landscapes, 1 portrait, 1 nude and 1 photo made behind a window.
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