Bert Teunissen: Domestic Landscapes

Bert Teunissen... Domestic Landscapes: Japan. From Domestic Landscapes, a project by photographer Bert Teunissen. Also... Photographing the Light in Places That May Soon Be Lost (New York Times, April 5, 2007). "...But for the occasional modern accouterment — a microwave in Belgium, a row of 2005 calendars in Spain — Bert Teunissen’s photographs of Europeans at home could have been captured in the remote corners of the continent a century or two ago. Weathered faces gaze out from surroundings patinaed through generations of use. Fireplaces the size of caves radiate heat across stone-slab floors. Hams and sausages age on hooks dangling from massive wooden beams. A dog wiles away a lazy lifetime at its owner’s feet. And then there is the light, dissipated by homespun lace or entering windows unobstructed, that slices through the haze of years like a freshly sharpened knife."