Wie is het?
Four photographs that shift attention from portraiture as a means of individual identification to an incomplete record of a social situation. By obscuring the sitters’ faces, the photographs interrupt the viewer’s impulse to recognize, name, and categorize. Attention is redirected to what usually remains peripheral in portraiture: the tactility of clothing, bodily posture and gesture, the textures of the interior space.

The series is an (incomplete) documentation of a social performance – people choosing roles, interacting while masked, and responding to the camera’s presence. What is shown is not who someone is, but what unfolds between the photographer, the sitters, the anticipated spectators and the setting.

The photographs contributed to the development of The Situative Portrait, a relational approach to portraiture in which the situation itself becomes the portrait, and context and interaction outweigh the final image as a representation of identity.

Wie is het? Archival Pigment Print, 2025 50 cm x 70 cm / 19,69 x 27,56 inch.

Exhibited at EST-art, Leiden in 2025.