MANMADE BUT NO HUMAN
"ABANDONED AND FORGOTTEN"
Jan Stel (Purmerend, the Netherlands) is a self-taught Fine Art Photographer and Photoshop artist. Always a creative person, Jan was a pioneering artist in his youth, spraying Graffiti murals in the suburbs of Amsterdam and at home he painting detailed drawings and realistic illustrations. A gift of analogue photo gear from his father prompted his interest in photography, and inspired him to develop his own creative style. As a photographer he explores abandoned places of our times, a forgotten world where mankind has disappeared. The mixture of fascinating history, absence of mankind and curiosity about our beautiful world of decay is the essence of my photography. When roaming around in abandoned locations Stel prefers to explore on his own, then all senses are focussed of being one with the location.
Stel his photography is made in pure natural light; no flashlights or studio lamps are used. This authentic process of working takes time, sensitivity and the right moment for action. Jan explains his photographic style in this way; “The human eye is far more sensitive than a camera lens and picks up minor as well as major differences in a scene. Because the photo camera is limited in its ability, I capture the image in multiple exposures. The scene my eye has seen and that which the camera is unable to pick up is what fascinate me. I want to reassert this sensitivity. I do this by brushing the photographed brackets into a sort of light painting, similar to what the dark room photography masters and painters of old used to do.”
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