'You just love and record what you live and someday somebody may be interested in it' Aarsman.
Hans Aarsman, a photographer from the
Netherlands, used a personal experience to show how easily he could give things
up after he had photographed them. The idea inspired him to photograph his own
possessions to try and stop his compulsive desire to possess things. Aarsman
combines photos and text to create his theme of Photography Against Greed. He took photographing the objects as a memory-forming act before disposing of them.
The project invites us to consider our needs
to own, keep and collect possesions we may not necessarily need. The idea shows
how we could slim down our any material items we have. He does this by using
photography as a ‘space and money saving device.’ Some have said that the series had led to the feeling of loneliness, not release. This series of work has been
shown at the Photographers Gallery in London. The images of the objects, become objects in their own right.
I like how this work looks at our feeling
towards something that isn’t a physical object. Would having a picture of
something rather than the physical thing mean the same to us? Would we still
feel like we own it, and have it at our disposal? I want to use this idea in my own work, and talk about things we may not