Review by Gerhard Clausing • Keeping the hidden child in each of us alive is not easy. Many influences and factors along the way try to squash it as time goes by, to the point that it gets heavily suppressed. Yet it is that hidden creative force that needs to be nurtured and brought to... Continue Reading →
Roger Ballen – boyhood
Review by Gerhard Clausing • At times some of us feel a certain nostalgia and want to go back to our youth. We long to be boys or girls again, thinking that things were simpler in our youth. We imagine that life was more innocent and more harmonious than what we now face as adults.... Continue Reading →
Julia Vandenoever – Still Breathing
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Sublimation of grief is a partial remedy that artists can use to make life more bearable. Julia Vandenoever, having lost her mother to cancer and her brother to addiction, was able to see connections between her own childhood and that of her own children growing up, with parallel events and... Continue Reading →