Here, I offer an initial photographic overview of basic movements, including jumping, falling, turning, gliding, bending, and rolling (with the latter two related to building a snowman). This section consists of photographic material of my children’s physical play events. Similar to photographer Sally Mann and her project ‘Immediate Family’, my journey starts close at home, taking pictures of my own children living their lives, playing along. At times I pick up the camera spontaneously, at times I carefully choreograph the situation – thereby drawing a thin line between staging the play event and engaging with the ‘real’ thing.
The photographs are taken over a period of roughly speaking, four years (2014-2018). The photographs are taken with a simple camera, the Canon EOS 6D, with a 20.2 megapixel CMOS sensor for high resolution. No tripod is used. All photos are taken by hand and captured in a raw image file, so that all the original data are preserved and no information is compressed.