Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare using handmade sets

using handmade sets

The medium suits the story—images hold mystery

Rossi photographs Rebecca

capturing the lasting impact of childhood on adult identity

I’m surrounded only by gridlines

Paul Kooiker / Eggs and Rarities rare using handmade setsPaul Kooikers encyclopaedia of life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichs more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective