Rolf Versteegh
photography - audiovisual - documentary - film - video
To live the below capturing time (personal and universal):
"The honest man ought not be a slave to history." Ignazio Silone.
Art by its very nature provides a way out of suffering through creating an environment of compassionate and truthful understanding.
Resistance starts with a declaration of innocence. Albert Camus.
“The figure of the flâneur - the stroller, the passionate wanderer emblematic of nineteenth-century French literary culture -has always been essentially timeless; he removes himself from the world while he stands astride its heart, ”Bijan Stephan writes at The Paris Review. In essays by the poet Charles Baudelaire and critic Walter Benjamin, the flâneur wanders dreamily through the fashionable modern city, taking in the sights and sounds - he (and it is always a he) is not a tourist, but a critic, an observer, a sophisticated appraiser, detachment embodied.
