One of the advantages when you begin photographing is that you start looking at the world differently. You start looking at objects and forms that you before would not notice, for example because they are in the water as in the case of this series. Ponds, especially during the summer months, provide a wide variety of compositions, forms and colour schemes just waiting to be photographed. Watercolour effects in soft pastel tints create a colourful harmony of water, plants, forms and shapes, water movements and reflections of clouds. Kyiv, Ukraine 2021
My name is Jan Waanders. I am a Dutch photographer, currently living in Chisinau, Moldova. The Covid-19 pandemic finally allowed me the time to give photography a try myself, In September 2020, I started courses at the Kiev School of Photography and since then I have never looked back. There is only one thing that I regret: that I did not start earlier :-) Through my pictures I try to recreate the carefree, colorful, and warm world of my youth. I am inspired by Gauguin, painters of the pre-WW2 Ecole de Paris, and the Czech avant-garde photographers.
