For me, photography is more than capturing the perfect moment. Every time I try to capture my astonishment with a single photo, I am disappointed. This was not what I want to see and feel. It is larger, more complex, more diffuse.
In my hypercollages, I want to bring all those fragments together so that together they begin to tell a story.
From constantly photographing those fragments, the series 'Casplantjes’ emerged naturally. So they form a basis for my hypercollages. My painter's palette. They are the most direct translation of my experience of nature and pay a true homage to the endless details of the ecosystem.
'Autumn Leaf' shows the beauty of time. Once started green but still exuberantly beautiful in this last phase of existence.
Cas Slagboom was born in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. As a child, he learned the analogue photography process in his father's darkroom, an ongoing learning process, a drive to be able to manipulate technology to tell a story.
Before starting as an artist, he spent years in..
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Germany
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