Two smartphones have a private chat in the courtyard garden of the 'Petit Palais' in Paris. The topic of conversation is wafer-thin. You may read in it mild criticism of talking on the phone at terrace tables. You may also see in it a first encounter with a stranger. "Place a thing in a strange environment where kinship may or may not emerge."
The compositions in the work of Gerard Oonk are highly stylized. The main subject of the photographs is immediately recognizable. "I don't want to distract the viewer and that requires making choices and leaving out a lot". The emphasis in the photographs is on beauty and optimism. Even our transience.. Read more…