VISION and VISAGE

During my volunteer work for the Oogvereniging (Dutch Eye Association), I saw many normal-looking people with eye conditions. They suffered not only from their own limitations, but also from a lack of understanding from others. A lack of understanding of how they, normal people, see the world. Personally, I do not experience any limitations due to my secondary glaucoma; I only have a small loss of vision at the edges of my field of vision. With this series of twenty double portraits, the normal portrait and how they see the portrait themselves, I have tried, not only for myself but also for others, to find an answer to the question “But what do you see?”.

Together with the Oogfonds, the series has been turned into a travelling exhibition and a photo book, with an interview with each person.

Since July 2021, the exhibition has been on permanent display at MuZIEum in Nijmegen.